integrations
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yamamanamaI promise you one day I'll explain the context of all the weird titles I use. But alas I have never read The Books of Mana. I figured "convergences" and "integrations" go together, which is why I didn't use "flowerchant and candleflame."
okay, so. These are the descriptions I missed, the ones that weren't there, and the paintings I missed or that weren't there, or other work of art that wasn't there and/or I didn't notice it. If I already posted the painting, see if you can match the pictures in Nature Abhors a Vacuum with the descriptions in this entry. Upon posting this, I was surprised at just how few pictures I missed.
EYES ON THE FLY
Two or more artists contributed to this work in which we are reminded, when walking the desert at night, to remain focused.
BONE JUGGLING DOG WEARING A HULA SKIRT
This is a delightful example of labor-intensive pointlessism. The MOBA interpretative staff scratched our heads in wonder as we tried to imagine what would possess an artist to portray a dog juggling bones while wearing a hula skirt. When the curator in chief asked Mari Newman directly, she responded, "having no money while taking art classes in college, I helped myself to used canvases left behind by other students. This canvas was long and narrow. I couldn't think of an idea for a ragged canvase that shape until I saw a cartoon of a wiener dog standing upright. I painted a dog on the used canvas but was not happy with it. After seeing hula girls in a magazine, I put a hula skirt on the dog on a lark. After I saw a jar of colorful dog bones in a pet store, I added them to my painting. I continued to work on the picture, but almost threw it out until I heard of MOBA. After many years of slashing rejected work, now I wish I had saved them all for you."
Mary Newman is a prolific artist living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Everyone at MOBA is grateful that she understands that Bone Juggling Dog In A Hula Skirt, and many of her other works (including paintings, drawings, and three-dimensional collages featuring Barbie dolls, hot water bottles, and found objects) belong in the MOBA permanent collection. Ms. Newman's "outsider art" is represented in many other museums, including the Pensacola Museum of Art, the Tampa Museum of Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art, and the Columbus Museum of Art (Ohio).
(unfortunately, the description in the photograph looks like the Wildlife Center is in Xenoblade and it's a long one)
EARTH MOTHER
The artist has created a colorful and texturally rich homage to Mother Nature. Can you find the snail?
FROM THE CARRIAGE SEAT
The artist presents a coachman's eye view of a deserted street in a generic Mediterranean village. While the tradition of depicting horses is as old as the prehistoric Lascaux Cave paintings, the anonymous painter of this work made the unusual artistic decision to concentrate on the part of the horses that left the stable last.
HE WAS A FRIEND OF MINE
The artist is a skilled watercolorist, as is evident by his knowledgeable use of negative space to create the ghostly husky. The sparkle in the eyes of the see-through cat brings a discordant, evil glint to an otherwise soft and peaceful scene. "Who else thinks it's a good idea to eat from my bowl?"
BLUE EYED FOX
Very few female foxes feature bright blue eyes. Many males of the species find them irresistibly attractive.
DEER-TURTLE-COON-ADILLO
no comment.
TWO-TERRAPIN PYRAMID
Photo by MOBA Curator-in-Chief Michael Frank
Red eared sliders Tiny (bottom) and Fluffy (top) perform their death defying two-terrapin pyramid
(for some silly reason I didn't photograph the description of this one and because I thought I had it already, I didn't photograph the description of the dead fish. I'll get that one next Monday. Probably by writing it on a napkin, or failing that, my hand. Even if I'm sweating like Roger Ebert by the end of the day)
This, by the way, is Prosthetic Claw.
I was going to ask why there's no omnibus of Lucky's Harvest and The Fallen Moon, but maybe there's an actual reason why. All I know is I didn't want to post a burning question that I didn't want overshadowed by bad art.
Burning Question: Is there a book with a plot similar to the Goosebumps book Don't Go To Sleep, only, you know, good?
okay, so. These are the descriptions I missed, the ones that weren't there, and the paintings I missed or that weren't there, or other work of art that wasn't there and/or I didn't notice it. If I already posted the painting, see if you can match the pictures in Nature Abhors a Vacuum with the descriptions in this entry. Upon posting this, I was surprised at just how few pictures I missed.
EYES ON THE FLY
Two or more artists contributed to this work in which we are reminded, when walking the desert at night, to remain focused.
BONE JUGGLING DOG WEARING A HULA SKIRT
This is a delightful example of labor-intensive pointlessism. The MOBA interpretative staff scratched our heads in wonder as we tried to imagine what would possess an artist to portray a dog juggling bones while wearing a hula skirt. When the curator in chief asked Mari Newman directly, she responded, "having no money while taking art classes in college, I helped myself to used canvases left behind by other students. This canvas was long and narrow. I couldn't think of an idea for a ragged canvase that shape until I saw a cartoon of a wiener dog standing upright. I painted a dog on the used canvas but was not happy with it. After seeing hula girls in a magazine, I put a hula skirt on the dog on a lark. After I saw a jar of colorful dog bones in a pet store, I added them to my painting. I continued to work on the picture, but almost threw it out until I heard of MOBA. After many years of slashing rejected work, now I wish I had saved them all for you."
Mary Newman is a prolific artist living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Everyone at MOBA is grateful that she understands that Bone Juggling Dog In A Hula Skirt, and many of her other works (including paintings, drawings, and three-dimensional collages featuring Barbie dolls, hot water bottles, and found objects) belong in the MOBA permanent collection. Ms. Newman's "outsider art" is represented in many other museums, including the Pensacola Museum of Art, the Tampa Museum of Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art, and the Columbus Museum of Art (Ohio).
(unfortunately, the description in the photograph looks like the Wildlife Center is in Xenoblade and it's a long one)
EARTH MOTHER
The artist has created a colorful and texturally rich homage to Mother Nature. Can you find the snail?
FROM THE CARRIAGE SEAT
The artist presents a coachman's eye view of a deserted street in a generic Mediterranean village. While the tradition of depicting horses is as old as the prehistoric Lascaux Cave paintings, the anonymous painter of this work made the unusual artistic decision to concentrate on the part of the horses that left the stable last.
HE WAS A FRIEND OF MINE
The artist is a skilled watercolorist, as is evident by his knowledgeable use of negative space to create the ghostly husky. The sparkle in the eyes of the see-through cat brings a discordant, evil glint to an otherwise soft and peaceful scene. "Who else thinks it's a good idea to eat from my bowl?"
BLUE EYED FOX
Very few female foxes feature bright blue eyes. Many males of the species find them irresistibly attractive.
DEER-TURTLE-COON-ADILLO
no comment.
TWO-TERRAPIN PYRAMID
Photo by MOBA Curator-in-Chief Michael Frank
Red eared sliders Tiny (bottom) and Fluffy (top) perform their death defying two-terrapin pyramid
(for some silly reason I didn't photograph the description of this one and because I thought I had it already, I didn't photograph the description of the dead fish. I'll get that one next Monday. Probably by writing it on a napkin, or failing that, my hand. Even if I'm sweating like Roger Ebert by the end of the day)
This, by the way, is Prosthetic Claw.
I was going to ask why there's no omnibus of Lucky's Harvest and The Fallen Moon, but maybe there's an actual reason why. All I know is I didn't want to post a burning question that I didn't want overshadowed by bad art.
Burning Question: Is there a book with a plot similar to the Goosebumps book Don't Go To Sleep, only, you know, good?
