[lace-chat] Art at the Olympics
Hi All, I've been meaning to send this tidbit since the Olympics so here it is. I heard some commentator saying this is the . Olympic prize for Poland .. Since knowing Tamara makes me interested in all things Polish I Googled to see what the commentator might have been talking about. It turned out that it was the first Olympic medal for Poland in the Biathalon. However, Poland has won many other medals in the Olympics including the 1948 Gold Medal for Music: Composition for Orchestra!! Zbigniew Turski by name. I was amazed to find out that the Olypmics had inclded sculpture, architecture, designs for town planning, graphic art, painting, literature: epic works, lyrics, etc. I think those events ended in 1948. The website I went to is: http://www.databaseolympics.com/games So there is a little trivia for you all! Jane in Vermont, USA where it's been in the 50sF (10C) for a couple days!! And we had sun yesterday! [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Art Bras for next year
Hello all, The guidelines for the Women's Wellness Art Bras are published on their site. http://www.wtww.org/ Let us know if anyone sends in a bra. Heather Abbotsford, BC To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] art (and horses)
Tamara wrote: walking under the horse with my mother, we looked up and -- oh, yes! -- the horse is male . . . So is Jan III Sobieski's one :) I've never been close enough to the Poniatowski statue (was on the same website, but closer to the top), as it's not easily approachable, but I'd bet *that* horse is male also... Come to think about it... I can't remember any of the famous battle horses being female (yes, there *was* Rosinante, but she was a battlehorse only in Don Quixote's dreams g). Yet, some of them *had* to be, by the laws of nature and statistics. Is it another instance of females being unsung and discriminated against? I imagine these horses were very much like people G ... the females weren't all that warlike, so were kept at home to breed, while the males were kept entire (not gelded) and their testosterone made them usefully fierce and eager to join in the battles. BTW: statues of soldiers on horses ... did you know/is it true/can you correct my details ... if a soldier died peacefully in old age, his statue portrays him on a horse with all its four feet on the ground; if from his wounds as a result of a battle - 3 feet on the ground; if during a battle - 2 feet on the ground ... but what about the one-foot-on-the-ground horse statues? BFN, Margery. [EMAIL PROTECTED] in North Herts, UK To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FW: [lace-chat] art (and horses)
Sorry sent this to Margery and didn't get it to chat. I am disputing the male testosterone for war horse theory based on the Arabian which is the horse I most understand. Please read my comments about war horses below... Cearbhael -Original Message- From: Angel Skubic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 10:43 AM To: 'Margery Allcock' Subject: RE: [lace-chat] art (and horses) Well, not if you look at the Arabian breed. A breed prized by the Bedouin for War Horses. The stallions were NEVER ridden into battle. Only the mares. They were bred for thousands of years as war horses. I breed Arabians now and believe you me, they still have that war horse mentality. They are alert, intelligent, quick, and very brave. My filly Jamahla, at the age of 2 thought the lash of the lung whip was a snake (or at least it reminded her of one) and she went into this stalk and kill the snake routine that used all the battle techniques that have been used for generations in war horses. If you ever watched the Lippizzan Stallions you will have seen the moves. The haute ecole moves like the Piaff, the Levage, and The Capriolle are all war or battle maneuvers, that are still practiced through dressage. I watched my 2 year old filly go through every one of these moves on her own without any training when she was stalking her pretend snake. It is still one of her favorite games and there is never any knowing what fancy battle manuever she will pull off in the process. I find her quick and natural ability to be proof that the moves are not so much learned but bred into war horses. Dressage merely refines and perfects the horses natural abilities. Cearbhael -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Margery Allcock Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 3:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] com Subject: Re: [lace-chat] art (and horses) Tamara wrote: walking under the horse with my mother, we looked up and -- oh, yes! -- the horse is male . . . So is Jan III Sobieski's one :) I've never been close enough to the Poniatowski statue (was on the same website, but closer to the top), as it's not easily approachable, but I'd bet *that* horse is male also... Come to think about it... I can't remember any of the famous battle horses being female (yes, there *was* Rosinante, but she was a battlehorse only in Don Quixote's dreams g). Yet, some of them *had* to be, by the laws of nature and statistics. Is it another instance of females being unsung and discriminated against? I imagine these horses were very much like people G ... the females weren't all that warlike, so were kept at home to breed, while the males were kept entire (not gelded) and their testosterone made them usefully fierce and eager to join in the battles. BTW: statues of soldiers on horses ... did you know/is it true/can you correct my details ... if a soldier died peacefully in old age, his statue portrays him on a horse with all its four feet on the ground; if from his wounds as a result of a battle - 3 feet on the ground; if during a battle - 2 feet on the ground ... but what about the one-foot-on-the-ground horse statues? BFN, Margery. [EMAIL PROTECTED] in North Herts, UK To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Art in Poole
Hi All, Some of the things which are discussed in the name of 'Art' do tend to leave a lot of us benmused, don't they! I am having trouble imagining the plastic 'wind-chime' piano .. But - in the eastern region here, there has been a great deal of tutting and consternation about the sculpture by Maggie Hambling, which is placed on the pebble beach at Aldeburgh.It is, if I remember correctly, in memory of Benjamin Britten and/or Peter Pears, and lookes like huge shells, on the beach.From pictures I had seen, I was distinctly unimpressed but one Saturday morning, with very little else to do, I decided that we would trek the hour up the A12 road to see it. The day was bitterly cold, with the wind coming, I am sure, straight from the Russion steppes, and it was also threatening squally rain. However, as we had found it, we both trooped down to have a closer look.It is made in corrugated steel, and of course, is a lot larger than one can gauge from photographs, and although my Philistine husband said it looked like a galvanised shed blown over, and it would have looked a lot better had the weather been twenty degrees warmer, even he was quite impressed when we wandered all round it!I have to say I really loved it - the only criticism being that the words cut into the steel can be read from behind it, looking out to sea, not when you are looking towards it from the sea. But I don't know how that could have been overcome - I like to look out to sea, and see the words, but I'd also like to be able to see them from the other side . But a great experience, and I am really glad we have now seen it!And the fish and chips in the town, eaten in the car out of paper, went down a treat, and did a lot to cheer up my Better Half! Carol - in a very blustery but not-too-chilly Suffolk UK. Subject: [lace-chat] Art in Poole To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Art in Poole
Just been reading the local newspaper on line (too mean to buy it covers a very wide area and only a couple of articles are relevant), which reminded me of the hoo-har over art in Poole. We have the Arts Centre (art galleries, theatre, meting rooms, rehearsal space, etc) which was reburbished both inside and out and renamed The Lighthouse. I refuse to call it that - it hasn't got a light and can't be seen from the sea. We don't have rocks in the harbour for ships/boats to founder on - just mud to get stuck in outside the dredged channel leading to the quayside - so nothing needs lighting in the sea anyway. The roundabouts (traffic islands) throughout the town have been adorned with obsolete buoys, rowing boats, ships' anchors and other maritime objects, which is quite appropriate for a port. I'd happily class them as 'art' because they've been thought about. But then we have a couple of 'modern' proposals, which have got the public up in arms. One was for poles on a roundabout on an approach to the town which would make noise in the wind. Rejected because of public outcry at distracting drivers on an already dangerous junction. The second (which hasn't totally gone away yet) is for a white plastic piano suspended somewhere on Poole quay which will make tinkling sounds in the wind. Oh joy - very artistic and in keeping with a working port! Jean in Poole To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] art
If you like big realistic art, how about Nina Akamu's interpretation of Leonardo da Vinci's horse? http://www.leonardoshorse.org I've seen the one at the Frederik Meijer gardens, and what can one say? It's enormous! Lynn Carpenter in SW Michigan, USA alwen at i2k dot com To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] art bras
Heather wrote: Hello all, Here's more art bras. These ones all from Australia (I think).I'm tempted to make one myself to hang in my craft room I had a new customer join the library this morning. His family name is : Brabender. :-) Poor bloke must have had a nasty time in secondary school!! Helene, the froggy from Melbourne Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Art Bras
Hello all, I belong to a crazy quilt list as well. 'A Way to Women's Wellness' is putting together a calendar of designer bras to raise funds for breast cancer research. There are pictures of the calendar bras on the website to entice you to purchase the calendar. Go have a look, they are beautiful. www.wtww.org Heather Abbotsford, BC Overcast, very different from yesterday's sun and warmth. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
