Enaks Tears
Down below I have posted some of those silly "tests" you can find online. In one of them I get Patrick Stewart as my "daddy"...
pauses to drool...
Anyway, Mr. Editor posted the following comment:
One thing I'm slightly confused about though: If you're supposed to call him dada, shouldn't Jean Arp have been your daddy instead of Patrick Stewart? After all, Patrick is more of a classicist and traditionalist and I just can't picture him with melted clocks all around the cottage . . . .
If someone would care to translate, I'd be grateful. There were clues, however, such as the melted clocks and dada, so I went off to google, because I had never heard of this person Jean Arp.
Jean Arp.
Arp was a founding member of the Dada movement in Zürich in 1916. In 1920, as Hans Arp, along with Max Ernst, and the social activist Alfred Grünwald, he set up the Cologne Dada group. However, in 1925 his work also appeared in the first exhibition of the surrealist group at the Galerie Pierre in Paris.
Ah ha! Enlightenment dawns! Look folks it's raining buckets again and I didn't get much sleep so I'm a tad slow on the uptake this morning.
But I still can't figure out what, if any, connection he has to the delightful Mr. Stewart.
Mr. Editor makes my brain hurt from time to time.
And that's a good thing.
Artcyclopedia - Jean Arp
Jean Arp - Guggenheim Collection
5 comments:
Actually, I apologize. I was being a clever bastard but not very smart - sleep deprivation will do that to you.
The clocks reference was about Dali's painting of which I can't recall the name.
As for Jean Arp, I just think it's a hilarious name to say to yourself at 4 in the morning when you can't think well enough to make a front page look coherent.
You get a free smack at me >B^D>.
No way I'm takin' a swing at you. That was a good time! It enlivened my dreary day :)
Well, the offer still stands >:^D>
A small gift after my convoluted joke:
http://www.luc.edu/depts/history/dennis/Visual_Arts/16-Surrealism_Dali_Persistence-of-Memory.jpg
I was a bit off - Dali was primarily a surrealist >8^D>
Oh thank you! Dali was surreal alright and he had the crazy eyes too :)
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