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| + | # Dexterous; skillful; handy; ready; convenient; -- applied to things as persons. | ||
| + | #:* That they [engines of war] be both easy to be carried and '''handsome''' to be moved and turned about. - [[Robynson (Utopia)]] | ||
| + | #:* For a thief it is so '''handsome''' as it may seem it was first invented for him. - [[Spenser]] | ||
| + | # Agreeable to the eye or to correct taste; having a pleasing appearance or expression; attractive; having symmetry and dignity; [[comely]]. | ||
| + | #: '''Examples:''' a '''handsome''' man; a '''handsome''' garment, house, tree, horse. | ||
| + | # [[Striking]], [[impressive]] and [[elegant]]ly [[proportion]]ed, though not typically [[beautiful]]. | ||
| + | # Suitable or fit in action; marked with propriety and ease; graceful; [[becoming]]; appropriate. | ||
| + | #: '''Examples:''' a '''handsome''' style, etc. | ||
| + | #:* Easiness and '''handsome''' address in writing. - [[Felton]] | ||
| + | # Evincing a becoming generosity or nobleness of character; liberal; generous. | ||
| + | #:* '''Handsome''' is as '''handsome''' does. - [[Old Proverb]] | ||
| + | # Ample; moderately large. | ||
| + | #:* He . . . accumulated a '''handsome''' sum of money. - [[V. Knox]] | ||
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| - | [[Paul Newman]] in an [[unidentified]] photo. How to describe Paul Newman to a [[Martian]]? He played [[good guy]]s in [[20th century cinema]]? | + | '''Handsome''' may refer to: |
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| - | Did he play bad guys too? I don't know. He was incredibly [[handsome]] with a definite [[Gender-ambiguity]] about him. | + | * [[Human physical appearance]] |
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| - | If I had [[Netflix]] or [[GreenCine]], I'd watch his rendition of ''[[The Glass Menagerie]]'' tonight. | + | |
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| - | Women of [[Domai]]. | + | |
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| - | ''[[Postmodernism and the Other]]'' by by [[Ziauddin Sardar]] | + | |
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| - | ''[[The United States of Mind]]'' is a [[Horace Silver]] album. | + | |
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| - | Today is [[Icon of Erotic Art]] #33 day. Remember this series is [[handmade]], I'm not pulling this out of a list. So it was with great pleasure that I was reminded [[Eric Fischl]]'s ''[[Bad Boy]]'' painting[http://www.artchive.com/artchive/f/fischl/bad_boy.jpg]. | + | |
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| - | ''[[Bad Boy]]'' ([[1981]]) depicts a [[young boy]] looking at and [[older woman]] shown in a provocative [[masturbatory]] (a [[beaver shot]] to be precise) pose on a bed, while the subject is [[surreptitiously]] slipping his hand into the woman's purse and presumedly stealing its contents. | + | |
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| - | The painting unites [[eroticism]] and [[crime]], between the two is a very strong link first verbally juxtaposed by [[Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly ]] in ''[[Happiness in Crime]]'', a short story first published in the [[1874 in literature|1874]] [[short story|collection]] ''[[Les Diaboliques (book)|Les Diaboliques]]''. I hope to explore this connection later. | + | |
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| - | ''Bad Boy'' is a painting which provokes the imagination, an equal amount of events seem to be in the painting as outside of it. | + | |
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| - | I imagine the neighborhood outside the room depicted suburbian. I imagine her husband (she is [[sexually frustrated woman|married and sexually neglected]]) watering the garden in a [[David Hockney]] painting manner. Maybe her husband is taking a ''[[A Bigger Splash]]''[http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/hockney/splash/hockney.splash.jpg] in their pool. Or the same husband is entertaining his gay lover in ''[[Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)]]''[http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/hockney/hockney.pool-2-figures.jpg]. | + | |
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| - | Since all [[figurative painting]] involving the [[human figure]] is [[narrative]] painting a number of questions can be raised: | + | |
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| - | What is the relationship between the older woman and the boy? Is he her son? Or is she [[barren]]? Is he a neighborhood boy who entered her house without her knowing? Is the woman aware that she is being stolen from and spied upon at the same time? Is it a game they play regularly and is the boy rewarded the money afterwards? Who is to tell. | + | |
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