OFFICIAL LOUNGE ARTS & HUMANITIES DRAFT THREAD

[fsoyars]

Originally Posted by MrWookie

I'm not saying I know them so much better than you guys. Or even that everyone should have the same preferences. But look at the selections in architecture, music, and literature: there's a lot of breadth of styles and eras, and plenty of things that casualartfan.jpg might not be familiar with. Some of these things were very highly valued, and despite their comparative lack of fame, were some of the first things people thought of.

Poetry and sculpture didn't have as much of that. Plus, there have been a lot more complaints ITT about people having NFI what to pick in that category .

Yeah, I'm not sure about sculpture but I think poetry is just a more difficult and inaccessible medium than most of the other categories. I think the trend you're talking about ITT is fairly representative of most people in the world. You can look at a painting or hear a piece of music and be like "Yeah, I like that," and enjoy it on an immediate, sensory level. Enjoying it on a deeper level than that is an option but not necessary. That's true for some poetry, but the bulk of great poetry out there requires the reader to dig a bit deeper than simply reading it and saying "well, I enjoyed how those words were assembled." The medium just doesn't lend itself to that kind of surface-level appreciation. It requires a bit more intellectual work. I know I'm making big generalizations here and I'm not saying there's anything wrong with enjoying art on any level but it may be why poetry tends to be less popular.

[HobbyHorse]

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Pick ____

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Sculpture

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Can my write-up be "Just because I really like it"?

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Edgar Degas' Little Dancer of 14 Years

[Dominic]

please post what round your pick is, at least.

ProHornBlower on the clock

crashjr on deck

[John Cole]

NIce thing with this sculpture is you can see it in museums all over America.

[Dominic]

Originally Posted by John Cole

NIce thing with this sculpture is you can see it in museums all over America.

same with a lot of Rodin's work.

[Daliman]

Round 7 pick

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Orators

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Amazed he's still here

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Winston Churchill

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HTF do I get Churchill here? I mean, obv Hedberg had to be picked Round 1, but the rest are hacks. Don't have a ton of time, I will posts some of my favorite lines of his though.

- A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

- A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

- Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

- An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

- Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

- Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

- For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

- However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. (RESULTS ORIENTED OMG!)

- I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

and of course, the granddaddy of them all;

- I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

[Dominic]

nice pick

[vixticator]

alright i actually found a few poems i really like but they're all by the same person so don't go snipping me

[Merek007]

Originally Posted by MrWookie

Heh, yeah. Write up certainly matters. I showed K the pictures of Casa Batllo in this thread, and she was ready to book a flight to Barcelona.

If she needs a chaperon let me know. A 2 week Gaudi tour would be nice. Maybe followed by a couple of more in Italy checking out David and the Colosseum.

[daveT]

Originally Posted by 9:15

At least as far as poetry is concerned, I'm flat out planning on going personal for my pick. I want my world to reflect me and my tastes from an Art and Humanities perspective, rather than picking necesarily the "best" available work. My poem can be read and undersood by anyone over the age of 8. Not high brow.

This, unless you understand that most "great" poetry is about poetry, then you have no ability to understand poetry.

The "best" is often "best" because it is convoluted and blocked off to the low brow types. Even if the low brows believe they get it or understand it, they don't, so it is a moot point to label poetry good or bad. It should be personal and that is about okay with me.

[Merek007]

Winston and Carlin were my two orator/comedian picks. ... Now what was Plan B??

[MrWookie]

Originally Posted by vixticator

alright i actually found a few poems i really like but they're all by the same person so don't go snipping me

[MrWookie]

Originally Posted by Dominic

please post what round your pick is, at least.

ProHornBlower on the clock

crashjr on deck

So, is PHB on the clock until ~6:30 EST, or is he already skipped? I PMed him at 10:40 EST

[fsoyars]

Originally Posted by daveT

This, unless you understand that most "great" poetry is about poetry, then you have no ability to understand poetry.

The "best" is often "best" because it is convoluted and blocked off to the low brow types. Even if the low brows believe they get it or understand it, they don't, so it is a moot point to label poetry good or bad. It should be personal and that is about okay with me.

I'd say the best poetry out there is about poetry but can also evoke an emotional response in the reader at the same time. Of course, different things evoke emotion in different people and sometimes something intellectual can generate an emotional response. But I think truly great poems hold the intellectual and emotional together at once. There are poems about poetry, poems about humanity, poems about nature, but really great poems are somehow about all these things simultaneously.

imo

[Francis M.H.]

churchill is a great pick - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IDTOg4DuCA