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Some are worth maybe 2. http://www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/d/donuel/ Mona Lisa no, but the last picture is my take on Leonardo D'Vinci. Also......... NOTHING is for sale.
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<a href="http://www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/d/donuel/">click here</a>
ratzafratz, how do I make a link?
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In case of emergency......use edit,copy, edit,paste. The pictures did not inspire me to any words.
I have no claims to art critic status.
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Yeah, right!
Show me a picture of the Gettysburg Address, then I'll believe that a picture's worth a thousand words!
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I challenge anybody to convey all of the implications of "Mona Lisa" in a thousand words.
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>I challenge anybody to convey all of the implications of "Mona Lisa" in a thousand words. that's a bit of an artifice  , bill. no one *knows all the implications of "Mona Lisa", with the possible exception of DaVinci (who's still dead). perhaps he was just messing around with golden ratios.
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I am greatly surprised -- and am not being ironic -- that no one has made the following point:
Are the first two posts in this thread extremely, and improperly, commercial?
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Just for openers, I suspect her "mysterious smile" may have been mild amusement arising from her knowledge that he was unable properly (or improperly) to appreciate her beauty.
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>first two posts in this thread... commercial? yipes. I thought there was something familiar looking about that address.  [link removed]
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Vanity perhaps. Commercial? "Bull". No offer solicited.
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dr. bill says, Commercial? "Bull". No offer solicited.
Dr. bill, did you read the durn page?
It shows artworks, several with prices listed (in four currencies, no less). Clicking on any of them gives an enlargement and a message like the following (emphasis added):
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Artist: Don Hakman
Title: Fishing For Minnow Upon A Whale
Year Created: 2001
Medium: Mixed Media
Width: 4 feet; Height: 3 feet
Theme: Nature
Edition Size: 0
Price: Contact Artist
Description: based on a Joseph Campbell quote. This painting is huge and makes an outstanding illuminated transparency.
Contact Don Hakman for more information, or if you would like to purchase this work of art.
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Does anyone find this offensive?
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I goofed again. I didn't read all the way down. But like other spam, delete takes care of it. But there ought to be a way of lifting his privileges. Actually the pictures were lousy enough, I can't imagine anyone buying them. And I got an excuse for a couple posts. Now nobody will ask me about Mona's smile.Sob, sob.
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Now nobody will ask me about Mona's smile.I certainly will ask. What's the story? Will it make us  ?
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I challenge anybody to convey all of the implications of "Mona Lisa" in a thousand words.
Paul Anka did it in 2 lines, wwh.
"Are you warm, are you real, Mona Lisa,
Or just a cold and lonely, lovely, work of art?"
Gives you chills, doesn't it?
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I suspect she was smiling because she knew he had a problem with sexual indentification, and scorned him.
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Thank you for your "honest opinion" of my paintings. I posted a few of my pictures on that free site and have no control over their commercial format. As for punishment, do as you deem necessary. What was once an outlet when upset, now seems too empty to pursue.
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I regret my harshness. I am innocent of any qualifications as a critic.
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... and on another note...
Yesterday I had the pleasure of visiting the current show at The Art Institute of Chicago which features a collection of Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin works displayed, compared and contrasted in a... blah.. blah.. blah... enough "book" report!
[rant]People are not allowed to take photographs during the viewing... the reasons I came up with are: it would be quite bothersome for the *looker to see "flashcubes" going off, the extra light would do wonders to excellerate UV damage, and the damn shutter clicking would drive most crazy. Fine! But, for an extra 5 or 6 bucks you can wander around the place completely oblivious of the people around you (I have a sore toe to prove it) with your rented headphones that not only floods your head with (what I'm sure is) a "judgement free" historical tour of the soap opera that was their lives (complete with *realistic sound track... and don't get me started on "impressionist" music), the headphones are of the open air type (idiots) that really don't isolate the sound to the wearers ear... most of the time I could hear four or five different tours buzzing around and all I can think was "where is my fly swatter". Apparently quite a number of people think pictures are "worth words", how many may be in question, but it is clear that most words aren't actually® talking about the picture![/rant]
Those two artists now have had a lasting impression on me, however, as well. Hi CapK
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