Rue Posted January 23, 2015 Report Posted January 23, 2015 ...adds 'ba-umf' to working vocabulary....
Craig Tucker Posted January 23, 2015 Report Posted January 23, 2015 Craig and Carlo, are you suggesting DADA is a PUN? Actually it could be… Haha! Yes, Dada could very well be a pun today. Although, in it's day it (my dada) was the further-est thing from it. Those guys were as serious as could be. And many of the great artists of the day were either in it, or almost (dali...) in it. Yes, it (Dada) easily could be a pun today.
CarloBartolini Posted January 23, 2015 Report Posted January 23, 2015 Nude Descending a Staircase, one of my very, all time, favorites. I see a black bikini bottom there.... Craig and Carlo, are you suggesting DADA is a PUN? But of course - In A Gad dada Vida = Duchamp making art of Jasper John's while listening to Iron Butterfly .... well, feel free to ignore me, I've reached an all time low....Sorry Jeffrey, please forgive me...delete this post if you'd like...
Craig Tucker Posted January 23, 2015 Report Posted January 23, 2015 But of course - In A Gad dada Vida = Duchamp making art of Jasper John's while listening to Iron Butterfly .... well, feel free to ignore me, I've reached an all time low.... Ouch! This is getting painful!
Addie Posted January 23, 2015 Report Posted January 23, 2015 There was an artist who built himself a log cabin. Understandably he built his outside toilet a considerable way off to the east. Unfortunately the wind kept changing direction, so he built another way off to the west. His name was 'Two-loos-long-trek'. As a child, my all time fav was: He who farts in church sits in his own pew.
romberg flat Posted January 23, 2015 Report Posted January 23, 2015 But of course - In A Gad dada Vida = Duchamp making art of Jasper John's while listening to Iron Butterfly .... Oh good pun, it's about “In the Garden of Eden” !!! Adam and Eve /and Steve /…
Julian Cossmann Cooke Posted January 23, 2015 Report Posted January 23, 2015 OK, so it's a riddle. So sue me. It's still word play. Why is a flashmob of Lilliputians carrying bows like a nursery rhyme? Why, because they're little bow people, of course.
Addie Posted January 23, 2015 Report Posted January 23, 2015 Q: If Tintin has tinnitus, what does he hear? A: Tintinnabulation. The best jokes are the ones you invent yourself.
MeyerFittings Posted January 23, 2015 Author Report Posted January 23, 2015 Ahh, Duchamp, finally something worth discussing... Who is this Rorschach guy and why is he always painting pictures of my Parents fighting?
FredN Posted January 23, 2015 Report Posted January 23, 2015 OK, my ignorance, what are Jaspar Johns-
MeyerFittings Posted January 23, 2015 Author Report Posted January 23, 2015 American artist famous for depictions of the Stars and Stripes. Or conversely an alternative alliteration to the pearl pisser
romberg flat Posted January 24, 2015 Report Posted January 24, 2015 Jasper John Jasper John.png This must be "Fountain" by Jasper John after Duchamp... Or is it Casper Morrison... Or Casper the Ghost... Or whoever...
Stephen Faulk Posted January 24, 2015 Report Posted January 24, 2015 Well you can compare Picasso and Braque all you want, But when comes to art, Marcel was duh Champ!
Stephen Faulk Posted January 24, 2015 Report Posted January 24, 2015 Here is a Jasper Johns I was looking at a few years ago and posted on my Facebook page. It has a landscape feeling and reflections on water look. The Flags he became famous for usually don't hold my interest, but lots of later things do.
Julian Cossmann Cooke Posted January 24, 2015 Report Posted January 24, 2015 Who is this Rorschach guy and why is he always painting pictures of my Parents fighting? Isn't that what kids go through when they see the lion exhibit at the zoo? Roar schock?
romberg flat Posted January 24, 2015 Report Posted January 24, 2015 But when comes to art, Marcel was duh Champ! Yes, Marcel is a Champ… No wonder all seriously mad threads here, sooner or later led towards Champ de Mars(el). Otherwise, an interesting company could be found here: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/feb/15/bride-and-the-bachelors-duchamp-barbican A lot of new names, good material for new puns…
Stephen Faulk Posted January 24, 2015 Report Posted January 24, 2015 Here is a website where you can play chess with a computer that is programmed with Duchamps game history. The programmer looked at 70 of Duchamps games as a grand master and used it to model as best he could how Duchamp would play, if he were a chess program. I played it a few times and got quite far, but the program is fairly strong. Not Kasparov strong, but strong enough, maybe like Alekhine, Reti, Capabanca or Lasker era strength and strategy, but enough to kick your butt. It's a good time, try it. It's like playing a player who thinks chess is an art not blood sport. http://turbulence.org/Works/playing_duchamp/
catnip Posted January 24, 2015 Report Posted January 24, 2015 Marcel du Champs was a serious chess player all his life and has played many strong famous chess players but he was never a grandmaster... He was a strong master with a career best rating of about 2400. There are (were) many celebrities that played chess seriously but in order to become a grandmaster it usually requires a complete dedication to the game at the exculsion of all else. Not all artists are chess players but Marcel considered (serious) chess players to be artistic in the complex combinational interplay of the chess pieces.
Craig Tucker Posted January 24, 2015 Report Posted January 24, 2015 Who is this Rorschach guy and why is he always painting pictures of my Parents fighting? But... in all seriousness, the sense of low humor of this thread aside, I am happy that Duchamp has risen as a subject in this discussion. His take on "cubism" has always been a great inspiration for me, as an artist. What a great sense of space - color - and technique this man had. His cubism always has a sense of solidity - three dimensionalism, that many other cubists has missed as a feature of their cubism. No names mentioned here, because i have no desire to negate other artists and their contributions to the genre - which are many and great. Back when I was a great and singular dali fan, (in the main) and a surrealist of sorts myself, I had a great admiration for Duchamp ( - and Yves Tanguy...) Ahh yes, those were the days. Just saying... That they even appear in these threads, makes me wonder how many of us here have a history with them? Puns aside for a moment. Great artists are there for us to comment upon their works today.
David Sanderson Posted January 24, 2015 Report Posted January 24, 2015 Let me refer participants in this discussion to "A Visit To The Asylum For Aged And Decayed Punsters", Oliver Wendell Holmes' description of the ultimate fate of persons in thrall to this form of wordplay. His picture of the seriousness of long-term addiction should be a warning especially to those of us who find ourselves somehow in a state threatening age and decay. QED, as Roman punsters no doubt said.
Roger Hargrave Posted January 24, 2015 Report Posted January 24, 2015 One I always liked as a kid, "Dada wouldn't buy me a bauhaus." Just for the old folks I guess and perhaps not in the US.
Roger Hargrave Posted January 24, 2015 Report Posted January 24, 2015 Here is a Jasper Johns I was looking at a few years ago and posted on my Facebook page. It has a landscape feeling and reflections on water look. The Flags he became famous for usually don't hold my interest, but lots of later things do. I remember this one well, but the flags were a stroke of genius.
MeyerFittings Posted January 24, 2015 Author Report Posted January 24, 2015 "Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air." O.W.H. He must have been a fungi.
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