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[mylo]

de Chirico

http://images.google...ico&btnG=Search

Fascinating.. never seen him before.. much to see!

.. beautiful ..


.. yeah, looks familiar ..

[fantomu]

that artist is escher?

[mylo]

that artist is escher?

Escher was the guy Cloud9 posted.

Slashdot had a great article about Escher and Eliptic Curves, that led to this site where they fill in the blank in his "Prentententoonstelling":

http://escherdroste.....leidenuniv.nl/



This mathematical structure answers some questions about Escher's picture, such as: "what's in the blurry white hole in the middle?" By a five step process a wide variety of different pictures has been made, such as a straight picture, and a picture twisting the other way.

Great stuff! If nothing, check out the loop movie:
http://escherdroste....ub=bavi&a=1&b=1

[CostcoLover]

de Chirico

Fascinating.. never seen him before.. much to see!

.. beautiful ..

.. yeah, looks familiar ..

If you like Dali and de Chirico, you should also enjoy Magritte.

[nhardy]

.. yeah, looks familiar ..

A cannon and 2 artichokes at 1:28 pm/am?

I see innocence in the form of an artist coming down from a hit of acid.

[mylo]

If you like Dali and de Chirico, you should also enjoy Magritte.

Yeah, seen him before. I dunno, I'm just not feeling it.

Here's a classic for all who care:


.. also quite famous:


.. and here's a more Dali-esque one I'd never seen before. I certainly see the influence:

[CostcoLover]

It's pm.... note the shadows

[Dave Burrell]

A cannon and 2 artichokes at 1:28 pm/am?

I see innocence in the form of an artist coming down from a hit of acid.

[CostcoLover]

Oh come now, that's nowhere near as radical an image as so many other artists. A hit of acid would produce much more creative imagery.

[mylo]

Am I the only one that sees the phallic references? I think that was coming down from a long weekend with a young french girl, not acid!

[CostcoLover]

Why French? He was Belgian...

[ngilbert]

A cannon and 2 artichokes at 1:28 pm/am?

I see innocence in the form of an artist coming down from a hit of acid.

I like it because it reminds me of an old bachelor pad of mine. It was a tough neighborhood, but we had our cannon so the crack dealers all steered clear. I remember we would sit by the window with our artichokes and watch the train go by. We called it "The Old 1:28 Special" because every day, like clockwork, it would drive by at exactly 1:28. Of course, our clock was broken, so everything happened at exactly 1:28, but still, there's something comforting about having things you can rely on. And on a clear day we could see the sails of the clipper ships off on the horizon.

Oh yes, I suppose that even back then on some level we realized that the train was supposed to be death, the cannon was an obvious phallic symbol, and the artichokes were a clumsy and heavy-handed representation of rebirth. But it didn't matter, for we were young, and as a free as we'd ever be again.

*sigh*

[mylo]

Why French?  He was Belgian...

You've obviously never spent the weekend with a young french girl

[mylo]

But it didn't matter, for we were young, and as a free as we'd ever be again.

*sigh*

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Great post!

[CostcoLover]

Interesting art project....

http://postsecret.blogspot.com/

PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail-in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard.