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Adele Elgood

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Some of you know my views on "art-speak" and how I find it hard to understand. However, I have just read an article where the artist is explaining how she came to paint her latest project. AND I UNDERSTOOD IT. Now, admittedly, it wasn't total gobbledegook, but the fact that it made sense to me has me worried. Am I now becoming an artistic intellectual (in which case I may now not have much in common with you lot anymore? - only joking of course!). Will I now understand all art? Will my art become better? Will I now make lots of money? I fear that the answer to all of these questions will be a resounding "NO"!! Never mind - I think you will be stuck with me and my ramblings for evermore - so sorry!
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Robert Jones, Napa

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Take a hold of yourself Adele! It's not the end of the world - there's therapy, medication, voluntary confinement in a secure institution while you're subjected to extensive psychotherapy reinforced with cold baths and a bracing run through stinging nettles every morning! You mustn't give up hope .... things can be done.... Without knowing the article or the art-speak, one can't tell how deep this malaise has gone; but there are varieties of art-speak, degrees of same; there may be a core of intellectual coherence in some of it, and perhaps you've just been fortunate in finding it. I always found Matthew Palmer, on the painting and drawing channel, the complete antidote to intellectualism in art, in that he offers absolutely none at all, "folks". Go cold turkey - try a plunge in Palmer: you'll soon be screaming for something intelligible (because you won't find it there). http://www.isleofwightlandscapes.net http://www.wightpaint.blogspot.co.uk

Derek Snowdon

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Keep taking the tablets Adele, the good old NE Britain ones but double the dosage prescribed by older members of the POL
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Not sure of the answer Adele - perhaps we should hold a referendum.

Adele Elgood

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Yes DD, I also thought the regime Robert described might turn me on! Michael has used the dirty "R" word. It wasn't a lot of art-speak, but I want to nip it in the bud before I become totally arty-farty and up my own you-know-what!

Ever Bla

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oh dear, now we are in a basket.....

Adele Elgood

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Sorry EBla not sure what you meant?
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Alan Green

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Adele, you've clearly been mixing with the wrong sort of people. Try drinking beer in the spit-n-sawdust bar, and eat fish and chips out of the wrapper for a week; that should unplug your sudden spurt of intellectualism :-)

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Adele Elgood

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Fish and chips out of newspaper used to be so wonderful - not sure if you can get it in newspaper anymore (Health and Safety, Michael). That newspaper print was the elixir!! Too bad I started yet another diet today. I know I reside in the Northeast now Michael, but do I really have to turn into Nora Batty? Thank goodness for Dermot - no I didn't understand a word of that - all is not lost!

Adele Elgood

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Small world Michael - I was also a youngster in North London! It all depends on where H&S originated from, good old UK or Brussels. Probably Brussels but I think we are too far down the slippery slope to do a U turn on H&S now. I am in favour of safety of course, but we seem to have gone completely bonkers e.g the time Firefighters (sorry, we have to be PC) were given new chairs in their stations and had to have lessons on how to use them - should have been out fighting fires! Or stopping special village events like rolling cheeses down a hill in a race -goodness, nothing like falling and being squashed into the grass by a huge Stilton, for a bit of a giggle! I could go on happily all year. Not sure if you are serious in not knowing who Nora Batty is but I will give you the benefit of the doubt. She is the icon of "Last of the Summer Wine" a series that was based in North Yorkshire and is still being repeated after 150 years, or so it seems. Easily identified as elderly - wrinkled tights -hair in curlers and a very sharp tongue. Actually could be me, come to think of it.
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My tongue's always in my cheek - reactions give me joyloads.
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Hey my last post gives me a great idea. Joyloads - a Prof. Stanley Unwin word - is there a successor out there - if so we could develop our own POL arty speak and leave the baffled 'art elite' hoisted by their own petard.
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