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04-21-2005, 08:24 AM
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Marion--no poem--just a better late than never "well done" on the ducks.
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04-21-2005, 05:31 PM
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A majority seem to think they’re ducks. Aren’t they more like geese?
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04-22-2005, 05:49 AM
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I think Henry might be right.
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04-22-2005, 09:26 AM
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Ducks are funnier.
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04-22-2005, 10:22 AM
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But geese are goosier - and meaner (I assume that's why they called him "Muthah" Goose.) And I agree with Henry. Even posted a four-liner to that effect way up the thread.
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04-22-2005, 10:26 AM
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I've never known abstract art to have a single interpretation of what a particular image is.
I'll simply withdraw and leave what I thought was supposed to be a "FunExcise" to you literalists of the imagination.
[This message has been edited by nyctom (edited April 22, 2005).]
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04-22-2005, 12:04 PM
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Actually-- I meant them to be SWANS!!! And not just swans, but the suggestion of boats with swan-headed prows. Of all the poems, Diana's came closest to my original conception.
But--ducks, geese, swans, whatever! It's a thrill to see all these terrific poems inspired by my picture!
Marion
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04-22-2005, 02:45 PM
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Marion, et al;
Check out the shape of the heads and beaks. Not swan-shaped (the head), nor goose-shaped (the bill).
Duck!
*grin*
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04-24-2005, 04:08 AM
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Haha. I thought helmet eyeslits that also look like the prow of a greek trireme. In my mind they are overlaid on a castle standing on waves. It has been struck by a thunderbolt.
Ducks never really crossed my mind. Abstract art is fun, isn't it?
Alex
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04-24-2005, 08:28 AM
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Marion - I thought they were ships - but only noticed them after Sharon told me they were ducks. But the proportion of their bows looked like necks, which finally struck me as longer than that of a duck, so I made it geese.
Originally, I saw the picture as seagull wings on the right, (which now cut through the front goose's neck)and a shark fin above the water by the "ship's" body on the left, and in the center I could see two very small oriental figures crouched in a back-to-front embrace like a portrait pose (at the very top of the white "wavecrest" in the center).
I love abstract art, too. But after you said swan, I can see it, especially in the very back one, because the bill is a different shape than the others. Fun stuff.
Christy
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