Art Depreciation Round Wrap-up

[featherynscale]

Votes are in, votes are counted. Regrettably, the proper answer to this one is this wretchedly impenetrable chunk of meaningless artspeak:
"The painting is "Vertical Horizon" by Colin Harbut. Harbut says about his work: "My latest paintings are an exploration into the boundaries between abstraction and figuration. While I admire the intuitive process of abstract painting, I investigate the communicative possibilities of the oil medium through color, form, and texture. In this approach I search for unique, non-cliché method to discuss the human condition from a completely innovative, non-representational perspective.""

Both ceruleanst and kittenpants (being artists) knew that this is the sort of self-important crap you have to come up with to sell a painting, so they get a point each.

In the voting, kittenpants produced a creditable chunk of artspeak herself, and fooled 5 of you, gaining 5 points for the tragic tale of Ivan Vrubel. jackbabalon23 picked up three votes for Klimt's encounter with mass human sacrifice. fionnabhar convinced two people it was a Chagall, for 2 points. Coming in at one vote apiece were triadruid, who called it a Sycamore at Sunset, diermuid's bluegreen man of Atlantis, wildnsquirrelly's story of Earnest Rowe, driven mad by Dungeons and Dragons, and 8elements' attribution of scratch-off crayon painting to Andy Warhol. karinablack voted for her own answer, and gets no points, just a sound implied thrashing :-P

Current point totals:
jackbabalon23 – 16
kittenpants - 15
saffronhare – 13
fionnabhar - 10
druidevo - 7
ottercat - 6
zerself – 6
8elements – 5
diermuid – 5
wildnsquirrelly - 5
adammaker – 4
catvincent – 4
hekatatia - 4
theslice - 4
ceruleanst – 3
lexpendragon – 3
malvito - 3
triadruid – 3
capriciouslass - 2
greektoomey – 2
infintysquared - 2
matchgirl42 - 2
rfunk - 2
becky_gardens - 1
lilia_blackbear - 1
lordkalkin - 1
opaljax - 1
orcjohn - 1
senset - 1
sxypaganmom - 1
ysabel - 1
zianuray - 1

Comments

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

And just in case anybody thinks I made up Congregation Beth Hamedrosh Hagodol Kesser Maariv Anshe Luknik in Skokie, I didn't. I'm hardly that clever.

http://bhhkmal.freeservers.com/schedule.html

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

That's a damn shame, because that was one of the things that made me NOT vote for that one.

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

Because you thought it sounded too phony, or because you knew it wasn't made up?

[celticwhistlin.livejournal.com]

I thought it sounded to phoney.

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

That makes it extra funny, then!

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Exactly. It sounded like it couldn't be the true one (I specifically resist Googling these, that seems much too much like cheating).

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

Sometimes, however, the one that sounds true wins, and other times, the funniest one wins. We're hardly consistent in that. Still it cracks me up no end that a thirteenth son named Herschel for Jacob was ostensibly more plausible than the name of the synagogue. The art museum and the university are both real, too, for that matter.

Screw the points. If the true parts sounded phonier than the made up parts, I call it a personal win. :-)