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Well, if you have to run into that chap, that's probably one of the best places in the world to run into him.
He's going to be on good behavior if he's in a museum.
Oh, the other question that comes to mind...did that chap have a supermodel on his arm gazing at the El Grecos?
Ronnie's an accomplished painter so he probably feels right at home in a museum. I guess the snarkier comment would be that Ronnie's a dinosaur so he probably feels right at home...
I've seen an exhibit of Wood's "paintings' and nobody but the biggest suck-up would ever describe him as an "accomplished painter." Wood's work defintely falls in the category known to real artists as "vanity art." That means you'd never bother even looking at such amateurish crap unless it was done by a celebrity.
That being said, I applaud Wood for taking the time to appreciate and produce art. Just don't ever ask ME to look at his work again.
Namedropper!
Ahh, The Prado. When I was a mere sprout back in the mid 60's my family lived in Madrid for a year. A memorable time. My mom used to drag us all (6 sons!) to the Prado every few weeks for our cultural education. We were ambivalent - we really wanted to be out playing soccor in the Casa de Campo - but there was something about those paintings, even to a 12 year old.
Those images burn brightly in my mind even today. El Greco's "View of Toledo" and "Burial of Count Orgaz". Goyas "Colassus" and "The Shootings of May 3rd 1808". Not to even mention Velasquez! Mom knew best - those paintings are now a deep part of my inner landscape.
I don't know if they're all currently at the Prado or not. I imagine some of them were there on loan as part of some exhibition or another back when I saw them. I didn't pay any attention to such things back then. But I sure do remember the paintings! Enjoy, Atrios, enjoy!
While you're in Madrid make sure to sample some Horchata - a great summertime drink made with chufa beans. They used to have street vendors on every other corner selling the stuff. I'm told it's less plentiful today but it's still there. Mmmm.
Forget the Prado. Go and meet Picasso at the Reina Sofia.
El Graecos are nice, but Guernica is _slightly_ more impressive.
YMMV.
/ol
Funny, just this week dug my two Faces albums off the bottom of my stack of CD's. They're brilliant, especially their first, 'First Step'. Ron Wood may be no great shakes as a painter, but he is an expert slide guitarist, as the cut 'Around the Plynth' demonstrates. He's probably better at that style of playing than his contemporary, Jimmy Page. 'Ooh La La' is a lesser album, but with some of their better songs on it, especially the title cut, whose familiar refrain goes 'I wish that I knew what I know now / When I was younger'. I think Rod Stewart, damn him, may have done an anemic remake of that tune a few years back. Anyway, my point is, Ron Wood got world-famous as a Stone, but he'll always be a Face to me.
"Forget the Prado. Go and meet Picasso at the Reina Sofia.
El Graecos are nice, but Guernica is _slightly_ more impressive."
YMMV.
/ol
otmar | 06.28.03 - 3:43 pm |
Guernica is a great painting. And so are the others mentioned. But forget the Prado? Oh come on, don't be such a snob. There are many flowers in the garden ...
Picasso?
ick poo
sexist pig
BTW, if you wanted to dig up a hard-news story on the Prado, you easily could. The Art Newspaper reported a couple years ago that about 10% of the Prado's collection is missing, last known to be "loaned" to government officials and presumed stolen.
"Ron Wood got world-famous as a Stone, but he'll always be a Face to me."
Demetrios
While I'm in the Wayback Machine ("Sherman, set the Wayback Machine for June 28th, 1969") ... Another Spanish memory, from a return trip, is listening to Jeff Beck's "Beck Ola" at some friends' house in some suburb overlooking Madrid. Our man Ron Wood playing up a storm on the bass, Rod Stewart full of piss and vinegar (back when he still had it), Nicky Hopkins on the keys, and Jeff Beck tearing it up real good on guitar. Jailhouse Rock man! The album's a bit uneven, but there's some great stuff on it. Some of these guys lost their mojo after a while, but old Woodsy and the boys really had something back in the day.
And I concur about the Faces albums. At the time, this stuff was all new. You'd hear it on the radio alongside Frank Sinatra, Dionne Warwicke, Glen Campbell, The Airplane ... . If only radio today could be that creative and diverse.
But Clearchannel will see to it that that won't happen. Can you imagine a song like The Airplane's "Volounteers" on mainstream radio today? (... got to revolution!). Shit, they won't even play the Dixie Chicks. OK, I guess we're back to the present now Sherman.
Um, don't go to the Prado looking for El Greco's "View of Toledo." It's in the Metropolitan in New York. (I saw it there just a couple of months ago.)
Showing my age... I still think of Ron Wood as "the new guy."
Boomer - Ah, the first wave. I'm not quite that old, but I do remember Brian well. Wasn't he just about the first rock casualty?
pansypoo:
He may have been a mysogonist with an ego the size of guranica (the town or the painting) but Picaso has done more for modern art than any other person since Da Vinci.
Boomer, me too, I still think that they were at their best with Mick Taylor. They say he couldn't take the lifestyle. He probably lacked Keith Richard's scientific understanding of proper substance use.
Come on, Jorge, nothing against Picasso but Da Vinci wan't modern and Breughel was better anyway.
IMHO.
The Prado is, considering its size -small- pound for pound one of the two or three greatest museums in the world.
Nothing by Picasso comes close to Titian's equestrian portraits, or to Velazquez' Las Meninas. Then there are those great northern Spanish painters 'El Bosco' and 'Alberto Durero...'
And the vegetable fetishist Juan Sanchez Cotan.
Better throw a curtain or something over that Guernica, though. Doesn't fit with the administration's image of American power, dontcha know.
At least he didn't have a curse on you like Lou Reed had on Eric Alterman's friend.
I'll always remember the first time I saw Wood on television when I was a kid. He was still a relatively new member of the Stones when they performed "Shattered" on Saturday Night Live. During Keith Richard's guitar solo, I think, Mick Jagger moved over to Wood and started licking his face. Wood looked very startled, but kept on playing...very professional, if you ask me.
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