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Paiting of Jolie draws notice
Yahoo news ^ | 1/5/2007 | MARTHA WAGGONER

Posted on 01/07/2007 4:44:09 AM PST by grjr21

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To: grjr21

it sounds like act I of Tosca, where Mario is painting the Virgin Mary with Tosca's face but not her eyes.


21 posted on 01/07/2007 6:10:00 AM PST by GAB-1955 (being dragged, kicking and screaming, into the Kingdom of Heaven....)
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To: Wacahootie
Angelina Jolie
22 posted on 01/07/2007 6:15:26 AM PST by Doe Eyes
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To: grjr21

I am never comfortable when celebrities are made to look like Mary or any other Christian symbol. Personally, I think Angelina Jolie, an openly bisexual and very ungodly person, is an extremely poor choice for this.


23 posted on 01/07/2007 6:18:33 AM PST by Princip. Conservative
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To: grjr21

Best I can tell from the small picture is that it is awful and the idea behind it is stupid.


24 posted on 01/07/2007 6:20:26 AM PST by Ditter
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To: grjr21
Way better view. But if you want to see... issues, check out the browser page title you get here.
25 posted on 01/07/2007 6:23:53 AM PST by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: Fzob
I think this falls under the category of art imitating life.

In other words, Jolie is a saint? Not by any stretch of the artists brush.

26 posted on 01/07/2007 6:24:15 AM PST by raybbr (You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote.)
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To: grjr21
"On her blog, Kretz, 43, said the painting addresses "the celebrity worship cycle."

Woody Allen -- What does it say to you?

Girl -- It restates the negativeness of the universe. The hideous, lonely emptiness of existence. Nothingness. The predicament of man forced to live in a barren, godless eternity. Like a tiny flame flickering in an immense void with nothing but waste, horror and degradation forming a useless straightjacket in a black absurd cosmos.

Woody Allen -- What are you doing Saturday?

Girl -- Committing suicide.

Woody Allen -- What about Friday night?

27 posted on 01/07/2007 6:26:40 AM PST by robertpaulsen
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To: Moonman62

I have no idea about her other works.
I'm looking at her ability to paint the human form, people's faces, paint the folds of the dress, the clouds, the store and shoppers.
She's talented.


28 posted on 01/07/2007 6:31:53 AM PST by Brooklyn Kid (What's it to ya? ) ((....west of the Jordan, east of the Rock of Gibraltar.................))
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To: grjr21
St. Britney


29 posted on 01/07/2007 6:36:12 AM PST by Alouette (Psalms of the Day: 83-87)
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To: goldstategop

No wonder muslims are contemptuous of our nation.

But hey, maybe soon Walmart will be selling Chinese-made knockoff black velvet paintings of this bisexual child-collecting Buddhist-wannabe psychologically disturbed former cutter as the Madonna. What a country.


30 posted on 01/07/2007 6:37:05 AM PST by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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To: Brooklyn Kid

She could have a future air brushing vans, or as a commericial artist, but the composition is horrible, though humorous. Perhaps cartooning is in her future.


31 posted on 01/07/2007 6:48:15 AM PST by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: I still care

As you ruminate, consider separating the culture from the marketing and promotion by Hollywood. They are separate, and many, like me, just do not participate. Also, I do not think that the society produces that anymore than in produces Cheerios. And Hollywood may not reflect much more than itself.


32 posted on 01/07/2007 6:58:11 AM PST by ClaireSolt (Have you have gotten mixed up in a mish-masher?)
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To: Slings and Arrows


Ping


33 posted on 01/07/2007 6:59:49 AM PST by grjr21
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To: Moonman62

I think you're belittling her artistic abilities because you don't like the subject matter.
As I said originally, subject matter aside, she's a talented artist.


34 posted on 01/07/2007 7:14:46 AM PST by Brooklyn Kid (What's it to ya? ) ((....west of the Jordan, east of the Rock of Gibraltar.................))
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To: Tax-chick

I think there should be at least one picture of either Angelina Jolie or Michelle Malkin posted on FreeRepublic, every day.


35 posted on 01/07/2007 7:20:10 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network ("Pelosi" is californian for "Castro")
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To: grjr21
Artists today have forgotten that for 500 years, artists included the faces of all kinds of celebrities in their works of art, mostly religious works of art. People who backed the artists were angels, and their enemies were demons in Hell.

Actually, if there are any very talented Freeper artists, you would become famous overnight if you painted a picture, Heaven on top and Hell on the bottom, showing the angels in heaven as prominent republicans and the demons below, and the damned, as democrats.

36 posted on 01/07/2007 7:25:38 AM PST by Popocatapetl
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To: grjr21

Hmmm... looks more like the whore of Babylon to me.


37 posted on 01/07/2007 7:29:28 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: BibChr

whoa...


38 posted on 01/07/2007 7:32:24 AM PST by thesearethetimes...
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To: grjr21
the good that she is doing in the world through her example

Let's see ....She has an affair with a married man. Then they have a child without getting married. Great example. I will be surprised if they stay together long enough to raise those kids to adulthood.

39 posted on 01/07/2007 7:56:32 AM PST by knuthom
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To: Brooklyn Kid

"As I said originally, subject matter aside, she's a talented artist."

Physical ability aside, I'm a talented guitarist. /s

The woman is OK as best. Her view of middle america is the same tired old recycled junk we have seen for going on 10 years. She lays paint to canvas no better than many graphic artists I know. If she hadn't made an attempt to take a shot at us knuckle-draggers in fly-over country, I would have never heard of her.

The subject matter is what made her known to us, nothing else.


40 posted on 01/07/2007 8:09:33 AM PST by L98Fiero (A fool who'll waste his life, God rest his guts.)
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