Hi y'all....

[bilunabirotunda]

Long time no see... Here's a meme from sillyzilly2k . I think it's been around before, but, you know, all your base are belong to us. Or something.

Comment and I'll...

1. Tell you why I friended you.
2. Associate you with something - fandom, a song, a color, a photo, a word etc.
3. Tell you something I like about you.
4. Tell you a memory I have of you.
5. Ask

Comments

[pasajera]

OK, the "fave work of art" question has lead to some very interesting discussions around the house...so many ways to look at this.

>>Fave work of art that I actually own: a diagram of the internal organs of an earthworm, labeled in Spanish, done in sharpie marker on butcher paper by one of my Peace Corps agriculture trainers. He was not an "artist" by his own estimation but I love the accuracy and the look of the lines and the overall feel of the piece. A great example of the ongoing struggle to communicate science visually.

>>Fave famous piece of art that I've seen in person and that lived up to all its hype: Pearblossom Highway, the photocollage by David Hockney. Had seen lots of reproductions and thought the idea was clever, but when I walked into the gallery at the Getty and saw it HUGE in person, it totally knocked my socks off. Plus, I have an affinity for scrappy California desert landscapes.


>>If I were trapped on a desert island and could only take one piece of art to look at, what would I take: Mira calligraphiae monumenta, the most awesome little book in the world. Also at the Getty, curiously enough. First stumbled across a facsimile of this book in college on the recommendation of another science illustration student, and fell so deeply in love that for a while I had the call number memorized because I'd visit it all the time. One artist did amazing examples of calligraphy, the other (Joris Hoefnagel, my hero) did even more stunning illustrations of bugs and plants that were like visual puns on the calligraphy. A sort of dueling banjos experiment from the 1500. This actually may win out for fave art ever, even without the desert island...

[bilunabirotunda]

Wow, thanks for such a thoughtful reply! I love all your choices. I don't think I've seen either of those pieces at the Getty, but then I've only been there twice. Interesting that you prefer illustrative art to painting, sculpture, etc. I mean, I could have guessed it from your own art, but I don't like to make those deductions. Maybe something to do with what you said about making science visible?