This painting, which was too large to fit within one JPEG, was interesting. Other bits of the painting will be reproduced in subsequent entries. The artist was Oscar Oiwa, the title was “Do you like Iraq? (Barbecue)”. Various cartoon characters are having a barbecue, and all the pieces of meat they’re cooking look like countries. [...]

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This was part of a larger painting that was mostly unremarkable. I don’t know what would possess someone to name bottled pop “Boing”, but here it is. Yikes. Work may prevent me from writing as many blog entries as before. I may have to skip a weekday occasionally. If you see a missing day, work [...]

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A painting of a sink full of psychedelic neon things. Good artists can take ordinary objects and make them really neat-looking. Fuzzball was really annoyed that I left her in the condo all by herself for most of the day. I’ve never seen a cat who wants so much attention. Maybe she’d be happier if [...]

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Anyone with at least one dog knows what it’s like at feeding time. The artist deliberately used a naive approach to perspective here, probably to convey something or other. I’m not sure what, but the sheer joy that dogs take in being fed could be seen as naive. I think I’m going to like the [...]

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When I first saw this painting, I looked at the extreme right of it, where the man’s body is partially transparent and you can see a woman through him. Then I looked at the extreme left, where the family is. I think it took a good 20 seconds before I noticed the actual subject of [...]

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The Phoenix Art Museum has one of Picasso’s smaller and lesser-known works. I took this (blurry) picture of it sort of out of a sense of duty, not because I thought the picture was insanely great. Whatever. Been reading Strangers Among Us, a book about how Latino immigration is changing the USA. The author believes [...]

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This particular painting in the Phoenix Art Museum was done sometime in the late 1800s. The whole thing is gigantic (at least 7 feet tall, 6 feet wide) and executed in an almost photorealistic style. It’s an impressive technical achievement, even though the subject is boring. I don’t think anyone would do something like this [...]

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It’s official, I have the job of herding penguins at WePublishNews. I start Monday the 16th. Whee! This may mean that blog updates may become less frequent. I will post something when I know for sure. This painting was one of the ones I saw in the art museum several days ago. I don’t remember [...]

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This is a crop from one of the pieces of art Meghan and I looked at in yesterday’s entry. That painting depicted part of the Gila River in the mid-1800s before it got dammed up and regulated. What drew me to this painting wasn’t the well-done technique or the depiction of how things used to [...]

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Lots of stuff happened yesterday. Went to the art museum with Meghan, saw a bunch of art, some of which was really good. We talked about the art and various other things all through this. I took a bunch of pictures of this art which will be put here and analyzed in later installments. We [...]

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