Submitted by Meredith Bell on Sun, 07/06/2003 - 10:00
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I was thinking we need some Forum Games like we have on LABN. Anyway, here is my contribution, the ABC games works like this: we choose a topic say, Movies or Books or Actors, and then each entry runs from A-Z. (For Example: Films - Armageddon to Zoolander.)
So lets start, the first catagory is, funnily enough, Superheroes/Villans (from anywhere, TV, comics, Cinema...)
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Jewish Antiquities and The Jewish War, both written by Josephus.
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King Lear by Shakespeare
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"Leyendas" (Legends) by Gustavo Adolfo Becquer.
A great Romantic Spanish poet and writer from the XIX century. Unfortunately most of his work was burnt in a fire. What was spared is enough, though.
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Man in the Iron Mask, The - Alexandre Dumas
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
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"Prometheus Bound" by Eschilo
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Quintus, who wrote a work titled Fall of Troy
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Rudyard Kipling
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"Sandokan" by Emilio Salgari
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Hmmm, T, T.... must go with the Roman author Tacitus (whose name incidentally means the silent one).
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Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe...
just so you all know, this one was hard fought, thank's to that little nothing from the 20th century clause, which eliminates both Ulysses by James Joyce and Upton Sinclair...still, I managed to pull it off...
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Mwahahahha! At last, V. There is only one poet who I could even consider listing for V.
Publius Vergilius Maro, more popularly known as Virgil - author of the Aeneid which you should all read. ;)
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W offers such a rich array to choose from...
I'm going to go with one of the great granddaddy's of one of my all time favorite genres of literatur.e...
Wells, H.G. (of course)
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Xenophon, who gives us one of our three contemporary portraits of Socrates.
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Yeats, William
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Zola, Emile - French novelist from the late 19th century
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oh my...at the end of a game and now there needs to be a new one...
Hm...whatever shall it be?
Lets try Fine Artists: which can include painters, photographers, illustrators, cartoonists (yes cartoonists) comic book artists, and performance artists.
I'll start with...
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David Bailey 'fraid i don't have any pic for that tho.
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Clever Lara
(an Uruguayan painter, and just know that clever doesnt mean anything in Spanish :roll: )
Ragdolls
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I shall propose a famous engineer and sculptor from antiquity, whose works were said to have been so lifelike that his statues came alive!
Daedalus
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M C Escher
One of his classics:
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the daring and often imitated...
Frank Frazetta
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Well, for 'G' I can't go past...
H R Giger
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C'mon... someone must know an artist who begins with 'H'. I can't follow on after myself.
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Hieronymous Bosch - Classic artist of the baroque period
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I just love this guy's name:
Julius Caesar IBBETSON
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Jim Lee--a fantastic comic book artist
He does the most beautiful Poison Ivy I've ever seen...
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Ken Done - famous Aussie artist known for his use of bold colours. Some of you guys may even have heard of him. :)
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Frank Lloyd Wright, architect.
The Solomon Guggenheim Museum of New York
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Claude Monet unoriginal I know, but he's always been my favourite Impressionist artist 'cause I just think his use of colour and texture is amazing.
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Ooh, I get to do 'N'. :)
Sidney NOLAN.
Another Aussie artist who has done a plethora of paintings, but is most well-known for his various portrayals of Aussie legend Ned Kelly.
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The Charming Olivia Pinup artist extraordinare
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Carlos Páez Vilaró
An Uruguayan artist, mostly painter. One curious data, his son was one of the few who survived the crash in the Andean mountains, ever heard the story?
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Ok, Q was a little tough, and I actually had to go hunting for one... I found a Chinese painter from the 11th century called
Qu Ding
and a piece of his work entitled "Summer Mountains".
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Unfortunately, having done "Q" means I don't get to do "R" now. :( And I so wanted to show something by an Aussie artist called Russell Drysdale. Hmm, or a local Peninsula artist called Rodney Symmons - when I was in Aust last summer (escaping the Maryland winter for 3 blissful weeks :wink:) I damn near bought one of Rodney Symmons paintings... *sigh*.
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Rodney Symmons would have been cool to have on our wall...
but since we don't own one I'll use Alex Ross as the artist :P
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Edward Steichen - Photographer
The Flatiron, 1905
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Joaquín Torres García - Uruguayan painter
I love this, the cross is where Uruguay is. :wink:
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Uni Martin, Australian Aboriginal artist.
This one's titled "Water Dreaming"
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C'mon guys. Someone must be able to come up with a 'V'. :)
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If we could, don't you think we would have posted it?
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Vera Wang the fashion Designer. Best known for her wedding dress designs.
I do consider good design to be art. Not that french crap that the trot out at the fashion shows. Edith Head, Coco Chanel, Ralph Lauren, and so on...true art.
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Hooray! Finally a 'V', so I can do 'W' and try to choose which of the multitude of Brett Whiteley's works to display. Tough choice... but here's one. :)
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Xavier Galiza, a Spanish painter and photographer.
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Yigit Yazici- a turkish painter from Bursa
If you're wondering why there's no name, it's because Yazici prefers the viewer to be able to appreciate the colour and shapes without any preconcieved expectations that a title might impose. Simply put if a painting is called 'pear' it prevents the viewer from thinking of it as an apple.
I just thought that quote was so cool I had to include it :D
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Juan Zorrilla de San Martín, an Uruguayan sculptor.
"La Diligencia" (The Stagecoach)
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Time for a new category...hmmm...
How about Director's?
Uhm...Woody Allen for starters.
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oooh, goody I like this one! :D
Baz Luhrmann
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Ok...it was a tough choice...but...
Wes Craven...