Prose from a Poshboy

[Tal]

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Le Rêve by Picasso.

This was famously the painting that Steve Wynn put his elbow through and knocked about $50m off the value of it. It used to be in his restaurant in Bellagio, but he sold it a few months ago for $155m.

As for the painting itself, it is unmistakably lustful. If you aren't convinced, have a look at the lady's head...

[Tal]

FFS!

Sorry. I'll delete these if you like. Your thread, Alex.

[NEWY]

Click to see full-size image.

Le Rêve by Picasso.

This was famously the painting that Steve Wynn put his elbow through and knocked about $50m off the value of it. It used to be in his restaurant in Bellagio, but he sold it a few months ago for $155m.

As for the painting itself, it is unmistakably lustful. If you aren't convinced, have a look at the lady's head...

Forgive my ignorance but i struggle to see any talent in that painting. What is the attraction and what makes it so valuable

[Tal]

This kind of stuff either appeals to you or it doesn't. I'm by no means an expert in this stuff, much as I can discuss hand histories with people, ask sensible questions etc, but can get quickly out of my depth, when people start debating 4bet/peel ranges!

Picasso is famous mostly for being part of a movement called Cubism. In very simple terms (simple enough for me to understand it, as much as to explain it ), it is painting something from a number of different viewpoints at the same time.

Le Rêve is a different style, though, painted of his mistress, 22, while he was 50. It is an example of Fauvism (although painted 25 years after the height of that movement), which is an offshoot of impressionism.

In plain English, the point isn't to paint what it looks like, but to paint what it feels like to you. The colours are supposed to be relevant, so bright colours show high emotions, for example.

As I'm not Brian Sewell, I am best off saying what I see. A woman, in a state of some undress, is dreaming. Her head is tilted and a cheeky smile is on her lips. She - literally - has sex on her mind. Her hands are sliding down her body towards the bottom of her skirt. The red chair that envelops her seems sexual to me as well and the necklace being stuck to her suggests she has been dreaming for a while.

Some or all of what I've said is inevitably bollocks. It amazed me when I first saw it anyway.

Even still, I also like seeing paintings of things that look like the things that are paintings of, so I know what you mean

[NEWY]

This kind of stuff either appeals to you or it doesn't. I'm by no means an expert in this stuff, much as I can discuss hand histories with people, ask sensible questions etc, but can get quickly out of my depth, when people start debating 4bet/peel ranges!

Picasso is famous mostly for being part of a movement called Cubism. In very simple terms (simple enough for me to understand it, as much as to explain it ), it is painting something from a number of different viewpoints at the same time.

Le Rêve is a different style, though, painted of his mistress, 22, while he was 50. It is an example of Fauvism (although painted 25 years after the height of that movement), which is an offshoot of impressionism.

In plain English, the point isn't to paint what it looks like, but to paint what it feels like to you. The colours are supposed to be relevant, so bright colours show high emotions, for example.

As I'm not Brian Sewell, I am best off saying what I see. A woman, in a state of some undress, is dreaming. Her head is tilted and a cheeky smile is on her lips. She - literally - has sex on her mind. Her hands are sliding down her body towards the bottom of her skirt. The red chair that envelops her seems sexual to me as well and the necklace being stuck to her suggests she has been dreaming for a while.

Some or all of what I've said is inevitably bollocks. It amazed me when I first saw it anyway.

Even still, I also like seeing paintings of things that look like the things that are paintings of, so I know what you mean

I am not saying I dont like looking at pics of fat lasses with a big cock on her face but I jus dont get where the talent is and why its so valuable. Enjoyed ur effort to educate me tho so ty for trying

[theprawnidentity]

pics of fat lasses with a big cock on her face

And back on topic...

[pokerfan]

This kind of stuff either appeals to you or it doesn't. I'm by no means an expert in this stuff, much as I can discuss hand histories with people, ask sensible questions etc, but can get quickly out of my depth, when people start debating 4bet/peel ranges!

Picasso is famous mostly for being part of a movement called Cubism. In very simple terms (simple enough for me to understand it, as much as to explain it ), it is painting something from a number of different viewpoints at the same time.

Le Rêve is a different style, though, painted of his mistress, 22, while he was 50. It is an example of Fauvism (although painted 25 years after the height of that movement), which is an offshoot of impressionism.

In plain English, the point isn't to paint what it looks like, but to paint what it feels like to you. The colours are supposed to be relevant, so bright colours show high emotions, for example.

As I'm not Brian Sewell, I am best off saying what I see. A woman, in a state of some undress, is dreaming. Her head is tilted and a cheeky smile is on her lips. She - literally - has sex on her mind. Her hands are sliding down her body towards the bottom of her skirt. The red chair that envelops her seems sexual to me as well and the necklace being stuck to her suggests she has been dreaming for a while.

Some or all of what I've said is inevitably bollocks. It amazed me when I first saw it anyway.

Even still, I also like seeing paintings of things that look like the things that are paintings of, so I know what you mean

I am not saying I dont like looking at pics of fat lasses with a big cock on her face but I jus dont get where the talent is and why its so valuable. Enjoyed ur effort to educate me tho so ty for trying

She's got 6 fingers and a cock on her face, is she from Sheffield?

[cambridgealex]

In serious form atm...a second consecutive winning Sunday...

Came 3rd in the winamax 'hiroller' for 5k. Ran insane to get there, 3handed was v tough actually, vs two vgood regs. Coolered the fk out of each other back and forth for a while and I got them in 3 times for their tournament life with flips but lost all three and came 3rd. Was part of my scoop package so good to make blondes some $ and freeroll that

Was also itm in the scoop million with a good stack, but after I bust winamax , I spewed off a third of it then lost the rest in standard spots for an annoying mincash. #slapwrists

Came 5th in my favourite tournament - le go fast - for another small cash, love going deep in that! Jack constantly crushes it and PJ won it twice in a row earlier this year - such a fun comp!

Overall a 5k profit day- this Sunday to Sunday probably been my best ever week (monte Carlo bink aside) so I'm dead chuffed. Great timing to happen before Vegas of course.

Gonna spend the week in Riga with Victoria now

[Tal]

Many congratulations.

Photo next to the statue of Tal? Image and directions:

http://www.chess.com/blog/drakpete/mikhail-tal-son-of-riga

[redarmi]

Forgive my ignorance but i struggle to see any talent in that painting. What is the attraction and what makes it so valuable

With some modern art I can understand your sentiment but with Picasso he is just incredible and I love this particular painting.   You can read it on so many levels yet it is so simple.  I could literally look at his paintings for hours and hours and get so much pleasure out of them.

[theprawnidentity]

Was part of my scoop package so good to make blondes some $ and freeroll that

VAMOOOOOOOOO

[tikay]

Art = bollox.

Strangely appropriate with that piece of Picasso pap.

[SuuPRlim]

I am not saying I dont like looking at pics of fat lasses with a big cock on her face but I jus dont get where the talent is and why its so valuable. Enjoyed ur effort to educate me tho so ty for trying

I think talent, much like anything (art being a great example) is all based around personal perception, you could think that painting a stunning and accurate picture of a landscape show a great deal of artistic talent, and that picasso's stuff is basically just join the dots yr4 colouring in stuff, just as you might think Ronnie O'Sullivan isn't a genius talent he's just a bloody good snooker player, or that Pythagoras was a mathmatically wonder-man and not a greedy maths teacher, and so on.

Art is a very personal thing, some pieces which really appeal to some will seem like crap to others, doesn't make 1 any more "art" than others and it doesn't mean Y is a better painter than Z it's just all subjective, we like what we like. Me personally always like picasso and cubist work cos i'm quite a visual person, i like seeing things within things, to me a beatiful picture of a tree is just that, a picture of a tree it doesn't ingite any thoughts, whereas stuff like that picasso does, I like trying to think what he muct have been thinking when he painted it. But then I can't add up to save my life lol

As for the value, it's worth $150m purely because it was picasso who painted it, one of the worlds most famous artists and he won't be painting any more!

[cambridgealex]

@ tal

I'm feeling an acapella-off coming on... Time for the big guns

That's really sick. Out of the Blue did a cover of this. Hate to say it but this is defo better. Will check out the rest of their stuff. THe beat boxer is sick!

[MANTIS01]

Art = bollox.

Strangely appropriate with that piece of Picasso pap.

Nah, science is bollox. Art is cool because it's open to interpretation and there are no rules. Anybody can be an artist. Photography is art you know, so every time you take a photo of a duck or a bridge it's art. Then again, after seeing some of your photos perhaps bollox is the right word to use afterall.