Posted on 10/28/2005 9:35:17 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Artgoers look at a 2000 sculpture, 'Big Man' by Ron Mueck as part of the exhibition 'Melancholy-Genius and Insanity in the Western World' at the Grand Palais in Paris, Friday Oct. 28, 2005. The exhibition runs until January 16, 2006. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
A visitor looks at a 1502 oil painting,' Double Portrait' by Giorgio Da Castelfranco as part of the exhibition 'Melancholy-Genius and Insanity in the Western World' at the Grand Palais in Paris, Friday Oct. 28, 2005. The exhibition runs until January 16, 2006. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
Geeze, I take a cocktail of Effexor and Xanax every day to get over this sh-t, not put it on display!
"Gomez, darling...look! How perfectly enchanting!!!"
That's a pretty good scuplture. How did the artist get Jerrold Nadler to sit still long enough to finish it? ;)
"Effexor and Xanax"! Really? Wow. You must be really calm.
I love Xanax, but it may not be the wisest medication for me. My then girlfriend got me out of a restaurant once without me remembering how I got out of there. Then I tried to jump out of her moving car.
Happy people tend not to create art. Happy people sell things to other happy people.
As for the Xanax, you just gotta know your tolerance level. I once took three and felt like I had gone on a tilt a whirl 50 times.
The image didn't show up, but I'm almost afraid to ask you to re-post it...
Well, maybe you are killing your inner Michelangelo with that cocktail? But then, maybe you are right: by all accounts he had an impossible character, and if ever it breaks loose...
The glib curator does himself and all of us a disservice by his offhand commentary of "Melancholy".
Several successive generations of insanity,alchohol/drugs and a rolling series of economic and war-torn civil strife have produced art that reflect the times in western society
Entire generations were overwhelmed with depression and ennui. Some called it the "Blues" or "weltshmairtz" and all levels of adult recorded memory reflect these terribly difficult passages of history in all the arts.
Curators should "curate" and leave art history up to serious adults.
Art Ping.
Let Sam Cree or me know if you want on or off this list.
"I'll cut you!"
Hi RP, I'm back from hurricane land.
I guess they have a Rembrandt or 2 in the show? IMO, he did melancholy better than any of the rest, good as many of them are.
Yes, Rembrandt was a king of melancholy; or self-doubt. I always want to console the man in these self-portraits to tell him he did alright in the end.
Sam, I'm glad you are free of hurricanes for a while. We'll keep our fingers crossed.
When checking on this, I found this great work of Three Philosophers by him. Stunning use of color for the time, and a soft, sensuous atmosphere. 
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