Paradise of a Thousand Shingles

Thursday, October 26, 2006

The Answers:

Apparently this one was really hard, so here are the answers before anyone got it right:

The photo of the soldier and nurse was Mia's. This was definitely the hardest to figure out, since we all like the photo and it's hanging up in our kitchen. To make it harder (although nobody guessed it was mine) the poster is mine. But you could've figured it was Mia's both through clear process of elimination and because it's traditional, clean cut and romantic.

Jessica's was the arrangement of the letters LOVE. I'm not entirely sure why she likes it, so I'll let her explain.

"It is so aesthetically pleasing. AND if you go to the IMA and see it it will blow your mind. The colors are so vibrant, and it's such an icon of Indiana art. It has such a simple but beautiful composition, and it the O at the angle just adds so much beautiful interest it makes it awesome."

Moving on...

Mine was the Painter's Honeymoon. That seems to have been easy enough, as everyone got it except Keith. (Nathan intentionally missed all of ours since he knew the answers.)

And Sara's was the Turner piece, both a pun on the word "Romantic" and a reaction against "sappy art." Originally we were just going to select one of our very favorite pieces of art, but when Jess's and Mia's and mine were all romantic we decided to keep it to the narrower theme so we could do artwork again if we felt like it. We already all have something picked out for works of art you wouldn't think we'd like (but we do), but we decided to go easy on ya'lls until some of you start getting it right more consistently.

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  • At 10:55 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Traditional, clean cut, and romantic? That photo shows a sailor that was running down the street making out with any and every random woman he saw on the street. Wives, fiancees, girlfriends. Made no difference to him. If you're going to call it a traditional clean cut example of anything, it's more like a traditional clean cut example of gratuitious "free love."

     
  • At 12:16 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    And if you'd just won the war against Japan after years of having your friends and brothers killed in battle you wouldn't want to kiss everything in sight too? I stick by my assessment of the photo. It's a well-known, traditional photo with clean cut lines , and romantic not so much in that it's a sailor being reunited with his love (which it looks like and contributes part of its identity) but in the jubilant mood of victory it still exudes.

     
  • At 2:16 AM, Blogger Nathan said…

    Almost art-buff, you're the kind of person that makes me have to be dogmatically against dogamaticalness, and push as far away from conservative reformedness on my own blog as I can without crossing the line.

    Or maybe you're sending up that kind of person. Hard to tell.

     
  • At 2:16 AM, Blogger Nathan said…

    dogmaticalness is the proper noun form, by the way

     
  • At 3:01 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Oddly, he's not kissing everything. Not even his friends and brothers. He's not even kissing children or the grandfatherly! Nope, he's just kissing my wife.

    Mr. Samurai, you appear to have met my friend Dogmaticalness. He's a swell guy.

     
  • At 11:37 PM, Blogger SaraY said…

    The next photo is her taking off her high heel and hitting him in the head with it.

    If she were me it would be, at least.

     
  • At 4:00 AM, Blogger Nathan said…

    Your usage of the word "swell" makes you awesome, almost art-buff. Therefore my samurai skills will not come to bear in this confontation.

     

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