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Where there's muck, there's Monet (Scientists study paintings to determine 19th century smog levels)
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| Wed Aug 9, 2006
Posted on 08/11/2006 9:19:39 AM PDT by presidio9
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A woman looks at Claude Monet's "Houses of Parliament" at the Tate Britain in London in 2005. The French painter Claude Monet is being used as an environmental monitor, for scientists believe his legendary paintings of the Houses of Parliament can serve as a useful indicator of smog levels in late 19th-century London.(AFP/File/Jim Watson)
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posted on
08/11/2006 9:19:40 AM PDT
by
presidio9
To: presidio9
Smog??? That's the smell of progress!
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posted on
08/11/2006 9:22:01 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Imagine a world without a CAIR...)
To: presidio9
That's like studying Chagall paintings to determine drug abuse levels in the 19th century.........
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posted on
08/11/2006 9:24:14 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Is Castro dead yet?........)
To: presidio9
At some point I believe he was going blind, and obviously his paintings are not photographic in nature.
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posted on
08/11/2006 9:25:27 AM PDT
by
Williams
To: Red Badger
A review of Michealangelo's paintings has led me to conclude that people mostly walked around butt naked way back when.
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posted on
08/11/2006 9:26:04 AM PDT
by
presidio9
(“The term ‘civilians’ does not exist in Islamic religious law.”)
To: Red Badger
I don't know much about art, but I know crap when I see it.
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posted on
08/11/2006 9:26:07 AM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Peace begins in the womb.)
To: presidio9
They should be spending their time researching why this woman has no face...
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posted on
08/11/2006 9:27:23 AM PDT
by
socal_parrot
(Trying to reason with wildfire season.)
To: presidio9
"Show me the Monet!"
-Cuba Gooding Jr.
To: presidio9
We're lucky to have his paintings to give us hard data on late 19th-century smog levels and smog colors in London. After all, we don't have any photographs from that era, because photography wasn't invented until the mid-19th century, and, um, uh, well, um... OK, let's try this again - because color photography wasn't invented until the mid-19th century, and, um, uh, well, um... Darn...
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posted on
08/11/2006 9:29:09 AM PDT
by
The Electrician
("Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.")
To: presidio9
And Bosch can be used as an indicator of the use of acid in 15th C Holland.
Pollock to assess chewing gum on the pavement in NY 1940's
Turner the rise of global warming....
this serious?
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posted on
08/11/2006 9:29:10 AM PDT
by
vimto
(Blighty Awaken!)
To: presidio9
I saw this a couple weeks back in D.C. @ The National Gallery of Art.
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posted on
08/11/2006 9:29:46 AM PDT
by
frogjerk
(REUTERS: We give smoke and mirrors a bad name)
To: frogjerk
I saw this a couple weeks back in D.C. That's fascinating. I had an Egg McMuffin for breakfast.
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posted on
08/11/2006 9:31:18 AM PDT
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presidio9
(“The term ‘civilians’ does not exist in Islamic religious law.”)
To: Jeff Chandler
Yeah but you can't afford this crap.
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posted on
08/11/2006 9:31:36 AM PDT
by
fish hawk
(Terror : in a cave in Afghanistan. Treason: in a cave-in , in the Democratic Party)
To: MaryFromMichigan
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posted on
08/11/2006 9:32:24 AM PDT
by
fish hawk
(Terror : in a cave in Afghanistan. Treason: in a cave-in , in the Democratic Party)
To: fish hawk
Modern "art" is a scam to bilk the stupid rich.
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posted on
08/11/2006 9:33:19 AM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Peace begins in the womb.)
To: presidio9
I had an Egg McMuffin for breakfast.Why are you telling me this?
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posted on
08/11/2006 9:33:55 AM PDT
by
frogjerk
(REUTERS: We give smoke and mirrors a bad name)
To: presidio9
A review of Picasso's paintings has led me to conclude that people mostly didn't know how to draw stuff way back when........
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posted on
08/11/2006 9:34:48 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Is Castro dead yet?........)
To: presidio9
That's fascinating. I had an Egg McMuffin for breakfast.A masterpiece of modern fast food.
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posted on
08/11/2006 9:35:39 AM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Peace begins in the womb.)
To: frogjerk
Industrial Revolution smokestack emissions were responsible for the golden sunsets and hazy look. Global warming was already under way.............
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posted on
08/11/2006 9:36:29 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Is Castro dead yet?........)
To: Red Badger
A review of Picasso's paintings has led me to conclude that people mostly didn't know how to draw stuff way back when........A rule of thumb: If a child can do it, it's not art.
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posted on
08/11/2006 9:36:33 AM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Peace begins in the womb.)
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