How good art becomes great art

There are several paintings in the Morgendorffer home that seem familiar somehow. For example, the picture of the ballet dancer outside Daria's "cell" seems like a Degas painting of some kind but I can't place it exactly. Anyone have any insights?

Then the picture outside Quinn's room looks like it might be a representation of a Monet water lily painting. Can't be sure. Anyone?

The abstract in the living room seems familiar but I can't place it at all. I've seen something like it but I just can't make the connection. I think it was mentioned as new in the episode "Pinch Sitter." Anyone?

There was another painting I've also seen but now it escapes me. Maybe it'll come to me--or someone else. If you know something then dive right in. If you don't know anything--since when has that ever stopped anyone? As long as we have fun. ("I don't like fun.")

And while we're on the subject of art, what's that object in the Lane's front yard? Looks almost like some kind of Calder-esque mobile but it isn't. Must have been a project of one of the inmates of the Lane community of artists. So they put it in the yard.

Anyway I think this is an interesting avenue of discussion. Daria and Quinn seem to live in a culturally rich environment in this respect. I, of course, have an old picture of dogs playing poker. ;-)

Bob

R. K. Henry wrote in message ...

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You took down the black velvet Elvis and the flourescent praying Jesus? I just hope you still have those pretty paint-by-numbers horses.

"Chris McCubbin" wrote:

The three wierdest things I've seen on black velvet-- a portrait of Gary Coleman (seen in Eastern NC), a portrait of a Belly Dancer (my cousin used to own that as a gag until he got married, then it mysteriously disappeared), but the weirdest thing on black velvet I ever saw was Kenny Rogers on black velvet, seen in a tiny little store in Juarez, MX. No, I don't know why.

I almost bought it, but I wondered, "Where will I put my white ceramic praying hands with the red fingernails?"

tacky=fun. rich.

Daria: He said master *painters.*

On Tue, 26 Jan 1999 06:50:33 GMT, [email] (paperpusher) wrote:

Gary Coleman on black velvet? I'm not a huge fan of bad art but something like that could change my mind. Please tell me you bought it (and you put it up where *everyone* can see it.) If you do have it is there any way you could upload a picture of it? I have a feeling it is a painting that has to be seen to be believed.

I was truamatized at a very early age by three paintings of, what I later learned were called "Keane Kids." Keane Kids were paintings of thin waif like children with big heads and *huge* eyes, the expressions on their faces defy description. They looked like sad, desperate, angry alien children. Everday, before work, my mom would drop me off at my grandmother's house for the day. The first thing I would see, when I went into her living room, were three of these paintings. They just stare and look sad, like they're about to cry. I quickly learned that there is no way to escape the stare. They had no hands either, I assumed that was why they were so sad. I guess Keane did'nt know how to paint hands at the time. I soon had nightmares, not of being chased or attacked but of being stared at. I've always had a negative reaction to being stared at, especially by children, I think that is because of those paintings. Every time I notice someone staring at me I get a strong urge to make them cry.

If you've never seen one of these paintings, I found on online somewhere and posted it at: http://www.magicnet.net/~mrhankey/Keane.JPG I've never seen this one but it's a good example of the genre.

Sorry about that. I should keep my repressed memories off of usenet.

[email] (Happydude) wrote:

No, I didn't buy any of those black velvet treasures... and it's been a while since I saw the Gary Coleman, like 8 years or so.

Aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh! Truly frightening. *shudder* I think any rational person would be traumatized by such a painting. It's almost as bad as the Hummel figurines or the clown collectibles. *shudder* Am I the only person who thinks that clowns are just plain creepy? (And not just because of John Wayne Gacy.)

creeped out, rich.

Daria: He said master *painters.*

Unfortunately, no. I could go on a HUUUGE rant about clown-hating and comparing Stephen King to Hitler and all this sort of stuff but I was just informed that this newsgroup is actually not a rambling stupid rant newsgroup but rather is a newsgroup for the discussion of Daria

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Happydude wrote:

LOL. Looks a bit like me when I was a kid - skinny, massive eyes, staring. Add a few bruises and change the eye colour and it'd look just right. :)

Yes, you should. If you keep on posting about what disturbed you when you were a child, I'll start on about what turned me into the freak I am today and you probably don't want to read all that stuff. :)

Alli

On Tue, 26 Jan 1999 21:34:56 +0000, "endless, nameless" wrote:

you mean like this? http://www.magicnet.net/~mrhankey/Alli.JPG

Happydude wrote:

LOL. Not quite, I have brown eyes, and they aren't bloodshot! Speaking of which, one of my friends has a really bloodshot eye right now. It looks very strange. She keeps going on about how she's got conjunctivitis or something; I don't know what that is, but I suspect it's her being a hypochondriac again. She claims to have leukemia, laryngitis, arthritis..... I can't remember any of the other ones because my knowledge of medical conditions is very limited, but she knows lots; she goes through this big medical dictionary thing of her mother's and convinces herself she's got all these rare illnesses with weird names that I can't remember.

Alli

Sure we do. Then we can all just start posting about our depressing lives. The ones with the worst lives will then have had some free therapy, and the ones with the best lives can say, "At least I'm better off than Alli." Everyone wins.

Eric Stevenson wrote:

Wasn't there a thread like this a few months ago? Me and some others (Happydude, mostly, I think) posting very long, probably very boring (but also rather therapeutic) posts about depression, self-harm, etc. I wouldn't mind having another thread along those lines, but I don't know what everyone else'd think..... :)

Alli

Happydude wrote:

ROTFLOL! It's strange how art our grandparents hung in their house leaves an impression on us. In my grandma's house there used to be a painting of a Chinese girl with bright green skin. It didn't really freak me out, but I was sort of entranced by the painting. "Why is her skin green?" I continually asked. No one could answer me. Years later, I burst out laughing when the painting turned up as a prop in a Monty Python sketch. I recently learned that the painter was a man by the name of Tretchikoff. I saw another painting he did of a Balinese girl, also with skin that same hue of sickly lime-green. I still have no clue as to why he should choose to paint skin such an unnatural colour.

MIKE (a.k.a. "Progbear")

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Progbear wrote:

My grandmother has loads of golden retrievers, and she is obsessed with these creatures. The house is full of dog photos and dog paintings and dog cross-stitch and dog ornaments. I think it is for this reason that I hate dogs more than any other type of creature on Earth (or, for that matter, on any other planet).

Alli

On Tue, 26 Jan 1999 06:50:33 GMT, paperpusher wrote:

This reminds me... something I've not seen in my web site perusing is a summary of Daria's "Beavis and Butt-Head" appearances. Does such a thing exist? I've been mentally keeping track of them over the last month... might write it up myself if no-one else has. I know that Daria helped trigger the famous "Great Cornholio" incident...

"Get out of here, Beavis." "Umm... okay!" [walks out the door]