Wednesday DPP: The Artfic
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I'm fonder of Lisa Turtle than of this image. But I wonder if it's inspired any artfic?
I’m caught up in words. I don’t know anything about pictures. Can’t draw anything, can’t say much about art; my brain is as baffled by Picasso’s “Guernica” as by a picture of a baby tapir. But sometimes I see something and it grabs me around my chest and squeezes. And, just lately, sometimes I see something, and I couldn’t say why, but I think: Love. Pain. Betrayal. Hope. Salvation. War. Pilots.
Sometimes it feels good to look at things without words. Which is why a lot of us are inspired by music. But how ‘bout “artfic”? Could that be a thing? Are there any in our shipperdom? Should there be? Should we commission them from each other?
Winslow Homer, "The Life Line" -- I don't know, it just does something pilot-y to my brain.
Have you ever seen an image and thought, yes, this, this is making my brain tickle with inspiration?
Today: share an image that makes you think of pilots! Painting and crayon scrawl, snapshot and sculpture—whatever. Accompanying drabbles, or general pilot!impressions that go with ‘em, welcome.
Warning: In the comments below, I’m gonna share an image that is borderline NSFW. (And hope somebody wants to write pilot!artfic about it.)
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Rodin, "The Eternal Idol"
Date: 2012-03-14 12:58 pm (UTC)It's the hands. There are crazy currents and cross-currents about power in intimacy, control and self-control. And that is why I take Rodin and think, yes, pilots.
Re: Rodin, "The Eternal Idol"
Date: 2012-03-14 05:58 pm (UTC)Yes. Yes to all of this. Please someone write this right now.
(also-- deepest apologies for being MIA earlier this week, but I just wanted you to know that I have loved your topics. so smart and thoughtful and creative-- really, why are we surpirsed here? *g*)
**this post is now glitter**
Re: Rodin, "The Eternal Idol"
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Date: 2012-03-14 08:43 pm (UTC)I'd never thought of this as related to pilots before, but it totally works.
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Date: 2012-03-14 01:33 pm (UTC)Especially these paintings:
The first reminds me of Space and the second of Kara's Mandala:
Oh and here's Kara talking about that first painting:
“Uh, I really like Kandinsky,” Kara piped up, as both sets of eyes turned to her. “He’s got this one painting that…” she paused, trying to find the words to adequately describe not just the content of the painting but the way it made her feel. “Well, it has all these spheres, right? Bright colors, all overlapping, kind of messy even, and there’s nothing else on the canvas, just these outlines, but… I don’t know, somehow it’s got this…depth to it,” she said.
“Several Circles.” Lee said immediately, sporting a surprised grin. “That’s – That’s one of my favorites, actually.”
She smiled at him. “It sounds weird, but it always reminds me of space, a little bit. Like how small our lives are compared to how vast the universe is, you know? It’s all about possibility, like maybe there’s something more out there, some kind of… grand plan or something.” Her eyes had fluttered shut as she talked, picturing the painting, and when Kara opened them, she found two wide sets of eyes scrutinizing her. She shrugged a shoulder, uncomfortable suddenly. “It’s really simple, but it’s pretty cool.”
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Date: 2012-03-14 07:07 pm (UTC)Vasily Vereshcagin's "The Defeated: Requiem for the Dead" reminds me of Earth and the events surrounding Revelations/Sometimes a Great Notion. If you look at the empty field, you can see that it is composed of the bodies of the dead, lying there in the soil with the figures of religion and the military paying silent respect before them.
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Date: 2012-03-14 07:20 pm (UTC)Preflight walkaround of a MH-53 Helicopter
by Monica Allen-Perin, CDR
Watercolor, 2003
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Date: 2012-03-14 08:44 pm (UTC)Liberty Leading The People, by Eugene Delacroix
And for Lee, The Thinker by Rodin, because it suits is introspective nature so perfectly.
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Date: 2012-03-15 12:04 am (UTC)Cuz I can find an Edward Hopper for every Occasion
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