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Someone help me! I've just understood some "art-speak"
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Cooooee! Double D - no naughty thoughts now! Michael, thought you were having me on!! I think Nora is even known on Mars. Our own arty language would be great. When I was at school, so many years ago, we had our own language called "huff-guff". Stop giggling Double D, I can hear you from where I am. It wasn't very successful because it took about 10 minutes to utter 1 sentence. It was worth it however, because the teachers couldn't understand us - happy days!
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Zzzzz - where was I? Ah yes, just reading the complete biographical balderdash of one Double D of Alnwick (which is far up the coast from me) thank goodness!! Where I live the war rages between the North Yorkshire "elite" and the Northeastern "rabble". Unfortunately I fit into the latter class! Did you ever marry Julie? I guess not, as it would have taken you ages to propose to her. Your secret language is not so different from our "huff guff" which put a "uva" in front of every syllable. Can you imagine singing "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" from "Mary Poppins" in huff-fuff? No neither can I.
EBla, thank you for explaining what you meant. Also, of course you have a very valid point about the lead, and of course that is very dangerous. Never thought about the soil - oh dear.
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It's not just arty farty artists and pseudo up-market galleries who baffle us with their nonesense. Now you would expect art critics (especially those in the national press) to help the uninitiated to understand and appreciate art by interpreting the nonesense by putting it into simple language that the lay reader can understand. Well you would wouldn't you? Now I just love Tate Modern but haven't been along since it opened it's new extension. I also generally like the work by Hockney whose recent portraits are showing there. I therefore looked forward to reading all about it from one of our most eminent art critics: Waldemar Januszczak writing in The Times this Sunday.Well when I reached the following sentence (yes one sentence) in the very first column I gave up 'Split into thematic groupings of exemplory vagueness- Artist and Society; Media Networks - the Tate's collection of modern art has dispensed with isms and national schools, with intentional contexts and the aims of the artist, with notions of quality and meaningful chronology, and replaced them all with a game of cultural snap that involves noticing how one thing looks next to another. Bad English apart can anyone please interpret it for me?
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