Ticks me off the "Kiss" picture of his is so nauseatingly kitsch... there's a poem Ferlinghetti wrote about it that made me love it forever in a way it's scarcely appreciated. http://webclass.lakeland.cc.il.us/sphillips/gkthekiss.htm
also known as The Virgin(s) - depending on where you're looking. Water Serpents is sometimes called Sea Serpents is sometimes called Girlfriends...Choose already, yo? I guess that's what happens in translating ideas.
And yeah, he was a perv. I read a book about him once that stated that he used to paint the women completely naked first, and THEN add clothes or blankets or whatever. But he's still my favorite.
When you're posting images, could you please either put them behind a link or shrink them down to something managable? Half the time they mess with how my pages are viewed because they're so frickin huge.
I was actually surprised when I saw the Edvard Munch exhibit at MOMA (and saw the Gustav Klimt paintings downstairs) only because I realized that some of my favorite comic book artists (Kevin Williamson, Dave McKean) were obviously influenced by these guys.
This is one of my favorites. I have a bookmark of it, even.
I do agree with asthran about your images, though. I don't mind terribly because they're usually really interesting, but the side-scrolling thing on my friends page is kind of annoying. It'd be nice if you could cut or resize them.
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Date: 2006-07-21 04:08 pm (UTC);-)
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Date: 2006-07-21 04:16 pm (UTC)Ticks me off the "Kiss" picture of his is so nauseatingly kitsch... there's a poem Ferlinghetti wrote about it that made me love it forever in a way it's scarcely appreciated.
http://webclass.lakeland.cc.il.us/sphillips/gkthekiss.htm
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Date: 2006-07-21 04:22 pm (UTC)Kidding.
But I like the irony of the title, but I suppose he really couldn't get away with calling a painting "Lesbian Orgy"
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Date: 2006-07-21 04:28 pm (UTC)And yeah, he was a perv. I read a book about him once that stated that he used to paint the women completely naked first, and THEN add clothes or blankets or whatever. But he's still my favorite.
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Date: 2006-07-21 05:59 pm (UTC)I do agree with
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Date: 2006-07-21 09:21 pm (UTC)So it's a katamari of virgins?
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Date: 2006-07-22 10:48 am (UTC)