Gratest Art?

Poetry by the great Pam Ayres

Oh, I wish I'd looked after me teeth,
And spotted the perils beneath,
All the toffees I chewed,
And the sweet sticky food,
Oh, I wish I'd looked after me teeth.

I wish I'd been that much more willin'
When I had more tooth there than fillin'
To pass up gobstoppers,
From respect to me choppers
And to buy something else with me shillin'.

When I think of the lollies I licked,
And the liquorice allsorts I picked,
Sherbet dabs, big and little,
All that hard peanut brittle,
My conscience gets horribly pricked.

My Mother, she told me no end,
"If you got a tooth, you got a friend"
I was young then, and careless,
My toothbrush was hairless,
I never had much time to spend.

Oh I showed them the toothpaste all right,
I flashed it about late at night,
But up-and-down brushin'
And pokin' and fussin'
Didn't seem worth the time... I could bite!

If I'd known I was paving the way,
To cavities, caps and decay,
The murder of fiIlin's
Injections and drillin's
I'd have thrown all me sherbet away.

So I lay in the old dentist's chair,
And I gaze up his nose in despair,
And his drill it do whine,
In these molars of mine,
"Two amalgum," he'll say, "for in there."

How I laughed at my Mother's false teeth,
As they foamed in the waters beneath,
But now comes the reckonin'
It's me they are beckonin'
Oh, I wish I'd looked after me teeth.

the Chauvet cave art in France

some pics are 40,000 yrs old

they show animals now long extinct in Europe, like Cave Lions & woolly rhinos

https://tse3.mm.bing.net/th/id/OIP.q9L8mctGnifNXFjS6qYWrAHaE8?rs=1&pid=ImgDetMain

Easy.

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.

comment by #4zA Napul3🤌 (U22472)
posted 12 hours, 5 minutes ago
Novel: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
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Whut about Invisibubble Cities by Italo Calvino?

comment by Jalisco Red - Losing My Reguilón (U4195)
posted 7 hours, 38 minutes ago
comment by #4zA Napul3🤌 (U22472)
posted 12 hours, 5 minutes ago
Novel: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
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Whut about Invisibubble Cities by Italo Calvino?
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Grate shout

Unique n interesting structure

comment by #4zA Napul3🤌 (U22472)
posted 1 day, 8 hours ago
Novel: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
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Eco... Eco... Eco...

comment by RB&W - One man down, One nil up (U21434)
posted 21 hours, 38 minutes ago
Easy.

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
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If you're ever in Madrid, don't miss the chance to see the Guernica. So powerful.

That would be my favourite, along with the Garden or Earthly Delights, which, considering when it was painted, is a total mindfᴜck.

Of course, there's a bias there towards paintings I've actually seen irl.

comment by it'sonlyagame (U6426)
posted 45 minutes ago
comment by RB&W - One man down, One nil up (U21434)
posted 21 hours, 38 minutes ago
Easy.

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
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If you're ever in Madrid, don't miss the chance to see the Guernica. So powerful.

That would be my favourite, along with the Garden or Earthly Delights, which, considering when it was painted, is a total mindfᴜck.

Of course, there's a bias there towards paintings I've actually seen irl.
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Saw both those in Madrid, plus all the El Grecos and that slightly creepy Velazquez one.

Botticelli's Venus was also quite powerful when I saw it in Florence, as was Dali's Christ of St John of the Cross in Glasgow.

comment by it'sonlyagame (U6426)
posted 1 hour, 48 minutes ago
comment by RB&W - One man down, One nil up (U21434)
posted 21 hours, 38 minutes ago
Easy.

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
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If you're ever in Madrid, don't miss the chance to see the Guernica. So powerful.

That would be my favourite, along with the Garden or Earthly Delights, which, considering when it was painted, is a total mindfᴜck.

Of course, there's a bias there towards paintings I've actually seen irl.
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Yep. Ive seen Guernica a couple of times. I also saw Les Demoiselles d'Avignon at MOMA in NYC. Both absolutely stunning in real life.

If u go too Naples, the Veiled Christ marbke sculpture in Sansevero is mined blowing