A grave end

Sideshow Rob · Post by **Sideshow Rob** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 2:09 pm

Thanks for the FA Cup summary Boris but you forgot to mention that Chelmsford City knocked out Gravesend &amp Northfleet. Gravesend are the team that I always forget about too. They were totally unfancied at the start of the season and are sneaking up on the rails in the Conference. I've got a funny feeling that they might be the team to break our unbeated league record. We go there after the Wycombe game and it might be a case of 'after the lord mayor's show'.

Pe├▒a Oxford United · Mon Oct 30, 2006 12:30 pm

I never understood what was supposed to be so great about the Lord Mayor's Show anyway.

Pe├▒a Oxford United · Mon Oct 30, 2006 1:42 pm

This however is a great painting of the Lord Mayor's Show although you can't really see it properly when it's this small. It's in the Guildhall Art Gallery and I love it.

A-Ro · Post by **A-Ro** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 2:43 pm

&quotSideshow Rob&quot wrote:We go there after the Wycombe game and it might be a case of 'after the lord mayor's show'.

Hmmm - could be very prophetic seeing as the Lord Mayor's Parade in London is on the 11th November.

Resurrection Ox · Post by **Resurrection Ox** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 5:17 pm

[quote=&quotPeña Oxford United&quot]This however is a great painting of the Lord Mayor's Show although you can't really see it properly when it's this small. It's in the Guildhall Art Gallery and I love it.

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What are your views on Velasquez? Seeing as you are Spanish?

Thnk he's wonderful.

Matt D · Post by **Matt D** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 5:49 pm

&quotResurrection Ox&quot wrote:
What are your views on Velasquez? Seeing as you are Spanish?

Thnk he's wonderful.

sorry, i feel i have to butt in - he's my favourite painter!

obviously for his faces, but his sense of structure in a painting is something else - both in the large pieces like his 'venus', 'las meninas', and 'christ in the house of martha and mary', but also the smaller works that i particuarly love, like the one of the dwarf with the sceptre-like rattle next to a two-year old child from one of the aristocratic families.

can't wait to get to the exhibition at the national.

Boogie · Post by **Boogie** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 6:05 pm

Only on this &quotfootball forum&quot could we go from discussing a conference team on the Thames estuary to the history of art.

Surely Turner would be a more apt subject for discussion given his paintings of the Thames.

neilw · Post by **neilw** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 6:06 pm

IÔÇÖve been wondering why the name of the painter Velazquez was generally spelled Velasquez in Britain up to the end of the 19th century, and frequently in the 20th.

Pe├▒a Oxford United · Mon Oct 30, 2006 8:00 pm

&quotneilw&quot wrote:I’ve been wondering why the name of the painter Velazquez was generally spelled Velasquez in Britain up to the end of the 19th century, and frequently in the 20th.

Quite likely because the z is lisped. Zaragoza, for instance, is spelled Saragossa in many books including Hugh Thomas' history of the Spanish Civil War.

To be honest my knowledge of Velazquez is pretty limited and we're a long way from the Prado here.

Resurrection Ox · Post by **Resurrection Ox** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 9:12 am

&quotPeña Oxford United&quot wrote:
&quotneilw&quot wrote:I’ve been wondering why the name of the painter Velazquez was generally spelled Velasquez in Britain up to the end of the 19th century, and frequently in the 20th.
Quite likely because the z is lisped. Zaragoza, for instance, is spelled Saragossa in many books including Hugh Thomas' history of the Spanish Civil War.

To be honest my knowledge of Velazquez is pretty limited and we're a long way from the Prado here.

Even further from the National Gallery as well. Brilliant Velasquez (sp - hah) exhibition there at moment.

Resurrection Ox · Post by **Resurrection Ox** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 9:14 am

&quotMatt D&quot wrote:
&quotResurrection Ox&quot wrote:
What are your views on Velasquez? Seeing as you are Spanish?

Thnk he's wonderful.
sorry, i feel i have to butt in - he's my favourite painter!

obviously for his faces, but his sense of structure in a painting is something else - both in the large pieces like his 'venus', 'las meninas', and 'christ in the house of martha and mary', but also the smaller works that i particuarly love, like the one of the dwarf with the sceptre-like rattle next to a two-year old child from one of the aristocratic families.

can't wait to get to the exhibition at the national.

Apollo telling Vulcan that his wife is shagging Mars while the lads at the forge look on is a laugh a minute. Signed Brian Sewell.

The National Gallery exhibition is awesome.

Ancient Colin · Post by **Ancient Colin** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 10:18 am

Bloody representationalism! Imposing limits on the reaction of the paint and the unconcious. Sweep away the old. Pure line and colour field, bypass literal perception.

If United were a painter, who would they be? Is that plural right?

Matt D · Post by **Matt D** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 11:43 am

&quotAncient Colin&quot wrote:Bloody representationalism! Imposing limits on the reaction of the paint and the unconcious. Sweep away the old. Pure line and colour field, bypass literal perception.

If United were a painter, who would they be? Is that plural right?

well, in-keeping with that theme, how about david hockney?

after a period of somewhat post-modern experimentation, returned to more traditional methods and rediscovered form...

Hog · Post by **Hog** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 12:24 pm

Rolf Harris

SteMerritt · Post by **SteMerritt** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 4:41 pm

&quotHog&quot wrote:Rolf Harris

Someone had to say it

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