Think Draw - Picture - Clipper 4 (Modigliani 1)

Title: Clipper 4 (Modigliani 1)
created on 07 Aug 12

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Comments on this picture (26):
1. chelydra wrote: After all those hours tracing the proud, thrusting, convex, sensuous, graceful curves of the clipper ships, it seemed time to revisit the original.
2. Robyntalks wrote: Am I supposed to see a boat in this somewhere? Cause all I see is a naked woman. LOL
3. methusalinka wrote: I dont see just eve.I see adam too.
4. bluemoon wrote: great PB as well
5. chelydra wrote: Robyn! Please! Don't be vulgar! Nude lady, maybe. Methusa - you always say the most intriguing things. Moonie, hi.
6. clorophilla wrote: uhmmm... this train seems to have met an unexpected rail switch! LOL
7. Robyntalks wrote: Sorry, English is not my first language. Nude is a much more proper word! Maybe next time. :)
8. golehto wrote: excellent .
9. Normal wrote: This one's far more solid and believable, hence not so Modigliani-ish, though I'll take your word for that!
10. chelydra wrote: As noted on Clipper 5, the ref-pic was something I think may have been an early atypical Modigliani because it was with some others by him. in a forgotten computer file.
11. chelydra wrote: and this is a very free copy anyway, so it looks even less modiglianian than the ref-pic.
12. Meander wrote: This is a very amazing pic, but you do realize there are children on this site?
13. chelydra wrote: Yes, but how did they get here? (This is how they got here.)
14. methusalinka wrote: 14) and so do you
15. Qsilv wrote: Glorious! ...and while I'm among the first to encourage treating TD as a garden party with children welcome and safe, imnsho, the sooner they learn that most "nice" people do NOT see this as prurient the better.
16. chelydra wrote: Well... Gloriousness is nice, but glorious prurience was kinda what I had in mind, actually...
17. mum23 wrote: â˜º
18. chelydra wrote: I guess what I mean to say is that eros is embedded in all art and all music; sensuous pleasure is essential no matter what the subject matter - the limbs of a crucified Christ by Crivelli may be painted as lovingly as Venus's bosom by Rubens...
19. chelydra wrote: There's an erotic tingle in seeing the light and shadow on a finger or a lace collar by Rembrandt - and the sensations engengered by VanGogh's swirling stars or Beethoven's swirling Ode to Joy can only be called orgasmic...
20. chelydra wrote: There have been Puritans, Islamic radical, and Maoists who would ban most art and music as dangerously lascivious and subversive and immoral... so it seems to me that the division is not really between what's...
21. chelydra wrote: ...prurient vs its opposite (tasteful? decorous?) as between glorously prurient and not gloriously prurient. There's an important question of whether an image can be inherently offensive and degrading - and how much these result from...
22. chelydra wrote: ...what's going on inside, or behind, the eye of the beholder. Obviously if the production of pornographic images involved coercion and suffering, those images are inherently evil even if they're artful and beautiful...
23. chelydra wrote: UH OH - just remembered that more verbiage might make this "new and popular" so I'll shut up now.
24. chelydra wrote: ..."prurient" and whatever the opposite is (Tasteful? Decorous?), but between the gloriously prurient and the ingloriously prurient... Of course this leaves out the important questions of how and why some images (not only of female forms) can be genuinely
25. chelydra wrote: oh... there was a winndow that disappeared, so some stuff got duplicated... oh well... so much for this installment of the chelydropedia
26. AFSOUTH wrote: Wishing you the best for the holidays chelydra!