You need Monet if you live in Brisbane
Welcome uncultured swine!
Not to take away the magic of show business but this is the first subby written since telling anyone and I’m a bit anxious? Handling this in a very artist way - alcohol before noon masking some pretty serious mental health issues. COMING UP:
Monet in Brisbane on his era’s tour
Bridgerton could never: Georgette Heyers book The Corinthian
Anxiety depicted by AI (topical)
That don’t impressionist me much - Monet in Paris in Brisbane
In Brisbane until August 7 is the Monet in Paris in Brisbane ‘multi-sensory experience’ (their words not mine) and as you require Monet to attend events - of which I have little - I’m abstaining. So let us critique Claude Monets’ Poppy Field for free instead.
A true daddy of impressionism, Claude Monet painted in attempt to capture dynamism of a moment rather than a static image. If you have no idea who this c*nt is from the above painting see Monets’ piece de resistance, Water Lilies (below) as an example of his most recognisable work from the water garden series. Unlike women, men can peak and any age and his water garden series was painted during the twilight of his life, his work leading up to the obsession with his pond were studies of light, landscapes, buildings and weather patterns at nauseam.
Poppy Field (above) is a great example of this, the angled brushstrokes give an impression the grass is bowing in the field, the trees have no defined edges and a directional leaf pattern suggests a light breeze is whirring them. It’s a sunny euro summer day in 1890’s France and Monet lets us know by adding golden highlights and a slight haze over the distant mountain ranges to indicate warmth in the atmosphere. This movement is really captivating and you can understand how people lose time analysing his pieces.
Fuck, now I’m critiquing his work in earnest but it’s what makes him one of the greats that makes me sound like a wanker. To suggest stillness in an image, a portrait or a landscape, is one thing but to make it move is a skill of unlearning and he did this so so well.
If that do impressionist you much, go see the exhibition and tell me about it.
Seems I can still enjoy problematic literature
With the advent of Succession, White Lotus and the Last of Us I’ve found myself hanging out for something that wont make me clinically depressed. This Mills & Boon-esque story by Georgette Heyer alleviated my mood nicely with a levity much like Bridgerton and whit to match the likes of Joseph Heller (Catch 22).
The Corinthian follows a young (too young honestly) girl dressing as a boy to escape an ill-fated wedding and her chance encounter with an older commitment-phobic fuck boy who agrees to help her abscond. It’s deeply problematic, there’s a huge age gap between the female protagonist and her male companion, but that aside there are some questions about gender which are compelling and Heyer doesn’t seem to take the whole gambit too seriously making it a fun and quick read.
ARTificial Intelligence: AInxiety
I asked my friend of the arts this week to give me an ‘abstract painting of anxiety’ and though I find this nice and balanced I don’t relate to this depiction of anxiety.
Could be reluctance? or disdain? certainly not chaotic enough to be anxious - the misunderstanding seems surprising from a machine that when faced with the slighted inconvenience, crashes. See Edvard Munch The Scream or Eugenie Lee Attached to My Adhesion for some good human references.
Anxious response: 2 Composition: 4
That is all until next week mwa mwa! Maggie Jean.
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