Comments on: What Was Cut Out Of Wright’s ‘Audacity’ http://sweetness-light.com/archive/what-was-cut-out-of-wrights-audacity-sermon Sun, 27 May 2012 02:00:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Steve http://sweetness-light.com/archive/what-was-cut-out-of-wrights-audacity-sermon#comment-119855 Steve Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:38:02 +0000 http://sweetness-light.com/archive/what-was-cut-out-of-wrights-audacity-sermon#comment-119855 "Here is a link to a larger version of the picture." If you click on the picture in the article you will get a larger version. “Here is a link to a larger version of the picture.”

If you click on the picture in the article you will get a larger version.

]]> By: Albertafriend http://sweetness-light.com/archive/what-was-cut-out-of-wrights-audacity-sermon#comment-119841 Albertafriend Thu, 02 Oct 2008 05:55:13 +0000 http://sweetness-light.com/archive/what-was-cut-out-of-wrights-audacity-sermon#comment-119841 Here is a link to a larger version of the picture. It also has a magnifier that you can run over top of it to see the various parts. Some commenters on the artwork say she is wearing a blindfold over her eyes not a bandage. There are none of the things JW describes and uses to build his so-called sermon. I can't imagine him using an actual copy of the picture as he was doing this.Maybe he has never seen it himself. Maybe this is how Obama learned about how to embellish an image to manipulate whatever reaction you wanted from people. http://www.paintinghere.com/painting/Watts_Hope_430.html Here is a link to a larger version of the picture. It also has a magnifier that you can run over top of it to see the various parts. Some commenters on the artwork say she is wearing a blindfold over her eyes not a bandage. There are none of the things JW describes and uses to build his so-called sermon. I can’t imagine him using an actual copy of the picture as he was doing this.Maybe he has never seen it himself. Maybe this is how Obama learned about how to embellish an image to manipulate whatever reaction you wanted from people.

http://www.paintinghere.com/pa.....e_430.html

]]> By: wardmama4 http://sweetness-light.com/archive/what-was-cut-out-of-wrights-audacity-sermon#comment-119714 wardmama4 Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:03:15 +0000 http://sweetness-light.com/archive/what-was-cut-out-of-wrights-audacity-sermon#comment-119714 Well I'm glad (I'd read some of Wright's 'sermon' and wondered - was I really going blind?Am I really that art dyslexic, that I couldn't see what he was talking about? - now I see it is he who has the problem. A while ago, I read a pygmy proverb - If you spend time thanking God for your blessings, you won't have time to weep over your problems. (Sorry, this is my memory of the proverb - I can't seem to find it in my 'files' for the exact wording). Wright might want to think on this proverb rather than making things up about a painting - just to incite the crowd. Well I’m glad (I’d read some of Wright’s ‘sermon’ and wondered – was I really going blind?Am I really that art dyslexic, that I couldn’t see what he was talking about? – now I see it is he who has the problem.

A while ago, I read a pygmy proverb – If you spend time thanking God for your blessings, you won’t have time to weep over your problems. (Sorry, this is my memory of the proverb – I can’t seem to find it in my ‘files’ for the exact wording). Wright might want to think on this proverb rather than making things up about a painting – just to incite the crowd.

]]> By: 1sttofight http://sweetness-light.com/archive/what-was-cut-out-of-wrights-audacity-sermon#comment-119707 1sttofight Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:52:27 +0000 http://sweetness-light.com/archive/what-was-cut-out-of-wrights-audacity-sermon#comment-119707 Yeah I saw that earlier, but this one seems to bring it more together. Yeah I saw that earlier, but this one seems to bring it more together.

]]> By: Steve http://sweetness-light.com/archive/what-was-cut-out-of-wrights-audacity-sermon#comment-119706 Steve Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:46:08 +0000 http://sweetness-light.com/archive/what-was-cut-out-of-wrights-audacity-sermon#comment-119706 Touched on at our sister site: Obama’s Tykes Vs Lenin’s Little Potatoes | Get Drunk And Vote 4 McCain http://getdrunkandvote4mccain.com/archive/obama-tykes-channel-lenins-little-potatoes Touched on at our sister site:

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]]> By: 1sttofight http://sweetness-light.com/archive/what-was-cut-out-of-wrights-audacity-sermon#comment-119705 1sttofight Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:43:18 +0000 http://sweetness-light.com/archive/what-was-cut-out-of-wrights-audacity-sermon#comment-119705 Children Sing Hymns To Obama http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLprurE7EVI Spooky, Like a time warp. Children Sing Hymns To Obama

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLprurE7EVI

Spooky, Like a time warp.

]]> By: dulcimergrl http://sweetness-light.com/archive/what-was-cut-out-of-wrights-audacity-sermon#comment-119699 dulcimergrl Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:51:34 +0000 http://sweetness-light.com/archive/what-was-cut-out-of-wrights-audacity-sermon#comment-119699 I couldn't finish reading this nonsensical so-called "sermon". But it sure does sound like Rev Wright saw stuff that wasn't there; like others who have commented today, I sure don't see wounds and blood and rags... Seeing stuff that isn't there--that's what my dearly departed Daddy was doing after he had a stroke while recovering from esophogeal cancer surgery. Could Wright's problem be that half his brain is missing? I couldn’t finish reading this nonsensical so-called “sermon”. But it sure does sound like Rev Wright saw stuff that wasn’t there; like others who have commented today, I sure don’t see wounds and blood and rags…

Seeing stuff that isn’t there–that’s what my dearly departed Daddy was doing after he had a stroke while recovering from esophogeal cancer surgery. Could Wright’s problem be that half his brain is missing?

]]> By: Helena http://sweetness-light.com/archive/what-was-cut-out-of-wrights-audacity-sermon#comment-119698 Helena Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:35:09 +0000 http://sweetness-light.com/archive/what-was-cut-out-of-wrights-audacity-sermon#comment-119698 rightguy - The reason to comment on the picture is that it is a clear cut case of him just making stuff up out of nowhere. And all you have to do to see it, is to look at the picture and read his description of it. They have almost nothing to do with each other. So it's a good illustration of how his brain works - or rather - doesn't work. It's not that he can see what others don't see, he sees what isn't there. rightguy – The reason to comment on the picture is that it is a clear cut case of him just making stuff up out of nowhere. And all you have to do to see it, is to look at the picture and read his description of it. They have almost nothing to do with each other. So it’s a good illustration of how his brain works – or rather – doesn’t work. It’s not that he can see what others don’t see, he sees what isn’t there.

]]> By: 1sttofight http://sweetness-light.com/archive/what-was-cut-out-of-wrights-audacity-sermon#comment-119691 1sttofight Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:01:17 +0000 http://sweetness-light.com/archive/what-was-cut-out-of-wrights-audacity-sermon#comment-119691 Hey, I hope I wake up in the morning. Hey, I hope I wake up in the morning.

]]> By: heather08 http://sweetness-light.com/archive/what-was-cut-out-of-wrights-audacity-sermon#comment-119690 heather08 Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:53:45 +0000 http://sweetness-light.com/archive/what-was-cut-out-of-wrights-audacity-sermon#comment-119690 I think Wright kind of gets what the artist was trying to depict--with a lot of exaggeration on his part. There isn't any blood and the girl is not in tatters, but he is correct that the painting seems to depict the opposite of Hope. But then he goes on to somehow interpret the painting as saying that hope--the audicity to hope--is the answer. I think the painting says the opposite. I think the painting says hope is futile but something humans cling to nevertheless. It depicts a very bleak view of the world and doesn't suggest that hope can change a thing, except maybe giving people the will to keep on living. I think Wright kind of gets what the artist was trying to depict–with a lot of exaggeration on his part. There isn’t any blood and the girl is not in tatters, but he is correct that the painting seems to depict the opposite of Hope. But then he goes on to somehow interpret the painting as saying that hope–the audicity to hope–is the answer. I think the painting says the opposite. I think the painting says hope is futile but something humans cling to nevertheless. It depicts a very bleak view of the world and doesn’t suggest that hope can change a thing, except maybe giving people the will to keep on living.

]]> By: artboyusa http://sweetness-light.com/archive/what-was-cut-out-of-wrights-audacity-sermon#comment-119684 artboyusa Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:14:48 +0000 http://sweetness-light.com/archive/what-was-cut-out-of-wrights-audacity-sermon#comment-119684 No one except the Rev can see the music above her head, SG, because it isn't there. No one except the Rev can see the music above her head, SG, because it isn’t there.

]]> By: therightguy http://sweetness-light.com/archive/what-was-cut-out-of-wrights-audacity-sermon#comment-119681 therightguy Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:58:56 +0000 http://sweetness-light.com/archive/what-was-cut-out-of-wrights-audacity-sermon#comment-119681 Instead of commenting on the finer points of a picture, try commenting on the speaker. While we already knew that Wright is full of hate, envy, and utter vile ignorance, this just nails it on the head. "He that lives upon hope will die fasting" -- Benjamin Franklin. Such prescient words that Wright nor Obama heeded. Jim http://www.therightguyshow.com Instead of commenting on the finer points of a picture, try commenting on the speaker. While we already knew that Wright is full of hate, envy, and utter vile ignorance, this just nails it on the head. “He that lives upon hope will die fasting” — Benjamin Franklin. Such prescient words that Wright nor Obama heeded.
Jim
http://www.therightguyshow.com

]]> By: Steve http://sweetness-light.com/archive/what-was-cut-out-of-wrights-audacity-sermon#comment-119677 Steve Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:11:29 +0000 http://sweetness-light.com/archive/what-was-cut-out-of-wrights-audacity-sermon#comment-119677 Also, I still don't see the music above her head that Wright talks about. Also, I still don’t see the music above her head that Wright talks about.

]]> By: Steve http://sweetness-light.com/archive/what-was-cut-out-of-wrights-audacity-sermon#comment-119676 Steve Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:07:52 +0000 http://sweetness-light.com/archive/what-was-cut-out-of-wrights-audacity-sermon#comment-119676 As we <a href="http://tinyurl.com/2y4ofy" rel="nofollow">noted previously</a>, George Watts’ painting, “Hope,” was painted in 1885 and given to the British nation in 1897. Click on the image above to enlarge it, and see if you can discern what Mr. Wright was going on about: <blockquote>When you look at the woman in Watt’s painting, you discover this woman is in hell. She is wearing rags. Her tattered clothes look as if the woman herself has come through Hiroshima or Nagasaki [Sharpeville]. Her head is bandaged, and blood seeps through the bandages. Scars and cuts are visible on her face, her arms, and her legs.</blockquote> Maybe what he describes can be discerned in the original. But somehow I doubt it. According to London’s Tate Museum, where the painting is displayed, Mr. Watts had something quite different in mind: <blockquote>The figure of Hope is traditionally identified by an anchor. In this picture she is blindfolded, seated on a globe and playing a lyre of which all the strings are broken except one. Watts wanted to find a more original approach to symbolism and allegory. But Hope’s attempts to make music here appear futile and several critics argued that the work might have been more appropriately titled Despair. Watts explained that ‘Hope need not mean expectancy. It suggests here rather the music which can come from the remaining chord’.</blockquote> What? No rags? No bandages? No blood? No sores? No scars? No Hiroshima and Nagasaki? No Sharpeville Massacre? Funny how victimhood can skew one’s perception of everything. As we noted previously, George Watts’ painting, “Hope,” was painted in 1885 and given to the British nation in 1897.

Click on the image above to enlarge it, and see if you can discern what Mr. Wright was going on about:

When you look at the woman in Watt’s painting, you discover this woman is in hell. She is wearing rags. Her tattered clothes look as if the woman herself has come through Hiroshima or Nagasaki [Sharpeville]. Her head is bandaged, and blood seeps through the bandages. Scars and cuts are visible on her face, her arms, and her legs.

Maybe what he describes can be discerned in the original. But somehow I doubt it.

According to London’s Tate Museum, where the painting is displayed, Mr. Watts had something quite different in mind:

The figure of Hope is traditionally identified by an anchor. In this picture she is blindfolded, seated on a globe and playing a lyre of which all the strings are broken except one. Watts wanted to find a more original approach to symbolism and allegory. But Hope’s attempts to make music here appear futile and several critics argued that the work might have been more appropriately titled Despair. Watts explained that ‘Hope need not mean expectancy. It suggests here rather the music which can come from the remaining chord’.

What? No rags? No bandages? No blood? No sores? No scars? No Hiroshima and Nagasaki? No Sharpeville Massacre?

Funny how victimhood can skew one’s perception of everything.

]]> By: artboyusa http://sweetness-light.com/archive/what-was-cut-out-of-wrights-audacity-sermon#comment-119674 artboyusa Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:28:51 +0000 http://sweetness-light.com/archive/what-was-cut-out-of-wrights-audacity-sermon#comment-119674 You're right, Helena -she's wearing Greek costume from the Classical period and playing a Greek lyre, on which all the strings except one are broken. Its an allegory, and a pretty obvious one I used to think until this goofus opened his yap.The actual painting is low tones of green and grey and, although she is meant to be sitting on the globe, all those cuts and bruises only exist in Rev Wright's hot, disordered imagination. You’re right, Helena -she’s wearing Greek costume from the Classical period and playing a Greek lyre, on which all the strings except one are broken. Its an allegory, and a pretty obvious one I used to think until this goofus opened his yap.The actual painting is low tones of green and grey and, although she is meant to be sitting on the globe, all those cuts and bruises only exist in Rev Wright’s hot, disordered imagination.

]]> By: Helena http://sweetness-light.com/archive/what-was-cut-out-of-wrights-audacity-sermon#comment-119672 Helena Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:09:19 +0000 http://sweetness-light.com/archive/what-was-cut-out-of-wrights-audacity-sermon#comment-119672 Artboyusa - Am I blind? I don't see her in rags, but in a diaphanous gown. Nor sitting "on top of the world" but on a rock, though I guess you could argue about that. I see no "blood beginning to seep through" her blindfold - not "bandage." I see no "scars and cuts on her face, arms and legs." What painting are these preachers looking at? Artboyusa – Am I blind? I don’t see her in rags, but in a diaphanous gown. Nor sitting “on top of the world” but on a rock, though I guess you could argue about that. I see no “blood beginning to seep through” her blindfold – not “bandage.” I see no “scars and cuts on her face, arms and legs.” What painting are these preachers looking at?

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