RE: Art Cocktail

I see you have commented on my post and I grinned, because at the same time I have been reading through yours. :)

Now... let's see here.

Isn't it fun that we all get to be our own art critic? I mean, our eyes like what they like! Nobody else has to tell us.

I've never been much into nudes as art for myself. That artist obviously has great painting talent, now, if he'd just use it for something more colorful! LOL...yes, I'm saying that with humor, but my thought on the "chicken" name is if you stop looking at the woman and look at the shape and the belt, you will see it is nearly the same as a hen at the market, when the butcher has trussed up the legs and wings with twine so that it does not flop all unseemly when put out for sale. Put her on to boil.. or wrap her in some foil and give her a bake.

Of course the name does not always have a relation to what is depicted as some artist use that to try to make a person stop and think. My understanding is that lots of artist want people to stop at their work and think.

"Place to Bang Your Head"... my thoughts the same as yours. Before I read your ending, I thought, well, yes, I get that, if you are going to bang your head on the wall, it would be nice if it were padded first. ha ...and yes, I believe you could certainly make something that would give off the same vibe easy enough. I haven't made anything like this, but I made things out of some old clothes before, temporary art that is long gone now.

Dowry... the home or other things depicted within?... the talent of the creator of the piece that would be a benefit to homemaking or an avenue for an additional income? I can see how that can fit... name ... to what you see....

There should have been at least one rope limb that was a very different color from the rest. LOL... "should"..... I know, there are no "shoulds" in art, but just saying.

Joseph and his brothers, right before they threw him in the well. :)

Ladder, I have seen ladders in several pieces of fairly recent art and I like them, like windows and doors, I wonder where they go too. I have had ladders floating in my head with the intent of including one or some in some future art. I just haven't gotten to it yet. I suppose, for the fact that I like color and fun and whimsy, this last piece would be my choice of these. Although much more simplistic and not requiring near the talent of most of them, I think with the ladder painted on wood and "framed", loosely speaking, with wood, it totally makes sense to display the painted part like that. Now you just have to decide, is the ladder laying down and you are looking down on it or is it up over head and you are looking up at it?

I bet Joseph would have liked to have had that ladder when he was down the well.

I enjoyed your art cocktail. Hold the olive please. :)