The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread I

[admin]

The very first TRABB posting. Just to get it started.

[OFSO]

There is nothing whatsoever either boring or pointless about ppruned.org. the only problem i can see is getting some of the refusées up here from Africa......

There is a very good precedent for this site:

[i]The Paris Salon, sponsored by the French government and the Academy of Fine Arts, took place annually, and was a showcase of the best academic art. A medal from the Salon was assurance of a successful artistic career; winners were given official commissions by the French government, and were sought after for portraits and private commissions. Since the 18th century, the paintings were classified by genre, following a specific hierarchy; history paintings were ranked first, followed by the portrait, the landscape, the "genre scene", and the still life. The jury, headed by the Comte de Nieuwerkerke, the head of the Academy of Fine Arts, was very conservative; near-photographic but idealized realism was expected.[2]

Much intrigue often went on to get acceptance, and to be given a good place in the galleries. In 1851, Gustave Courbet managed to get one painting into the Salon, Enterrement á Ornans and in 1852 his Baigneuses was accepted, scandalizing critics and the public, who expected romanticized nudes in classical settings, but in 1855 the Salon refused all of Courbet's paintings. As early as the 1830s, Paris art galleries mounted small-scale, private exhibitions of works rejected by the Salon jurors. Courbet was obliged to organize his own exhibit, called Le Realism, at a private gallery. Private exhibits attracted far less attention from the press and patrons, and limited the access of the artists to a small public.

In 1863 the Salon jury refused two thirds of the paintings presented, including the works of Courbet, Édouard Manet, Camille Pissaro and Johan Jongkind. The rejected artists and their friends protested, and the protests reached Emperor Napoleon III. The Emperor's tastes in art were traditional; he commissioned and bought works by artists such as Alexandre Cabanel and Franz Xaver Winterhalter, but he was also sensitive to public opinion. His office issued a statement: "Numerous complaints have come to the Emperor on the subject of the works of art which were refused by the jury of the Exposition. His Majesty, wishing to let the public judge the legitimacy of these complaints, has decided that the works of art which were refused should be displayed in another part of the Palace of Industry." [3]

More than a thousand visitors a day visited the Salon des Refusés. The journalist Emile Zola reported that visitors pushed to get into the crowded galleries where the refused paintings were hung, and the rooms were full of the laughter of the spectators.[4] Critics and the public ridiculed the refusés, which included such now-famous paintings as Édouard Manet's Déjeuner sur l'herbe and James McNeill Whistler's Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl. But the critical attention also legitimized the emerging avant-garde in painting.

The Impressionists successfully exhibited their works outside the traditional Salon beginning in 1874. Subsequent Salons des Refusés were mounted in Paris in 1874, 1875, and 1886, by which time the popularity of the Paris Salon had declined for those who were more interested in Impressionism; this was not the case for the artist Manet who still wanted to be acclaimed by the original Salon, looking for permanence and nobility like many other traditionalists.

So you can see how being rejected became not a badge of shame, but rather one of honour - and I hope this is the way we will go in this place !

OFSO

[Ibbie]

Eye, eye!

Not made it to bed yet!

Busy day manana, invasion of the German Romanian part of the enlarged family from Munich for 10 days hols.

[angels]

The trouble is going for a barbeque tomorrow.

I am not, the weather will be shite and it's yet another of my sister-in-law's house-warmings.

Meds are kicking in.

"I've always fancied you Florence," said Dillon.

BOOOIINNGGG! "Time for bed said Zebbedee......

Night night folks!

[limeygal]

'allo 'allo what's all this then?

[admin]

Welcome Limeygal. Good to see you here. Very early days, but moving forward.

There's lots I have to do to make it more user friendly. I am not planning on having any Mods and very few rules of engagement, but I will be implementing a Karma system on which everyone has a say. If members like a posting they can award good Karma points, and vice versa. If a member goes into negative territory too often then ......

Like to feel we are all mature enough to cope with that.

Alison

[flynverted]

Anyone invite Slasher?

[Alisoncc]

Suggested it already.
Alison

[handsfree]

Good morning to you all.
Nice to see some familiar faces on here.
Nothing to report apart from the fact that the sun is out.
I shall now concentrate on attempting to wake up.

I've sent out details of this forum to the Exascots.

[DBx]

Good moaning everyone and 'alllo 'allo. Here's hoping that around her, unlike elsewhere I can duck out of making an arse of myself.

Part of me so wishes that this is accurate reporting...........http://www.furnesstradition.org.uk/morris-dancers-and-blind-footballers-in-mass-brawl-suffolk-gazette/

[handsfree]

And we get post counts for adding to TRABB.
What's not to like.

[angels]

Raining here. I'm pleased because it was bloody sultry this morning.

Off to Dartford and back to drop the trouble for the barbie at her sister's gaff.

[Keef]

Part of me so wishes that this is accurate reporting...........http://www.furnesstradition.org.uk/morris-dancers-and-blind-footballers-in-mass-brawl-suffolk-gazette/

Ah - the Suffolk Gazette! My local paper!

[limeygal]

Morning all: It is chaos here chez Limey. We are having our wood floors refinished tomorrow and we have to move the furniture out of the rooms being done. Consequently, it is all piled up in the back of the house including our bedroom. All the animals are having a spaz attack-they don't like change. Whenever one of us moves, we go in a sea of animals. They don't want to miss anything. They know "something is going on."

[wings folded]

All this is all very well.

Where is Draper?

[limeygal]

I agree-it would be lovely if FSL and his milk bottle could join us. It is his thread after all. Could someone with his private e-mail send him an invite? If we don't he might write us up in his book of reckoning

[limeygal]

Hands-I see you post re: doings in Bots has been deleted already over yonder

[Wodrick]

I have sent him an encoded PM

[Wodrick]

Around 11.00 local I announced that we were going to dine out tonight, I didn't care where just out. Senior management has had the choice of two Indians, two Thais and an upmarket Spanish. She has just announced, seven hours later, that we go to the nearest Indian, so curry night it is.

One wonders when the first 'newcomer' will join.

[Blacksheep]

'Allo, 'allo. What's going on 'ere then?
Been chucked out of the house for being boring old farts 'ave we?

That nasty bunch in PPRuNe Towers sent me a most insulting nastigramme and one was obliged to withdraw from the arena. Let's hope we can mind our own business here, engage in our usual polite conversations and leave the old place to the Microsoft FlightSim Pilots.