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Mate at work has his own server on emby
Anything I ask for is on it ten minutes after he gets home

Will see if he has slow horses
 
Yes he has
Something else to add to a growing list to watch
I don't know where he gets his stuff from but he has all the latest stuff as soon as it's been shown
No need for Netflix or the rest
It's all on his server
 
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The Shock of the New, the series on modern art by the Australian art critic Robert Hughes first broadcast in 1980, is being shown again on BBC4. Of course it’s challenging, and probably pretentious but at least it’s not patronising, the viewer is never talked down to. There is some good stuff on BBC4 and Sky Arts, but not much newly made I think of the scale and ambition of this series. Apparently Hughes travelled a quarter of a million miles making it. The implicit point, made very eloquently, is that whatever you think of the weird and wonderful products of the dozens of movements, fads and trends, even if you despise them, they are all expressions of freedom.
 
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The Shock of the New, the series on modern art by the Australian art critic Robert Hughes first broadcast in 1980, is being shown again on BBC4. Of course it’s challenging, and probably pretentious but at least it’s not patronising, the viewer is never talked down to. There is some good stuff on BBC4 and Sky Arts, but not much newly made I think of the scale and ambition of this series. Apparently Hughes travelled a quarter of a million miles making it. The implicit point, made very eloquently, is that whatever you think of the weird and wonderful products of the dozens of movements, fads and trends, even if you despise them, they are all expressions of freedom.
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I'm afraid I'm a shameful philistine when it comes to modern art. It's mostly bollocks, if you ask me.

There's a fascinating new documentary on Sky Arts at the moment about hidden images in Turner paintings - Decoding Turner | Sky.com.

Without doubt my favourite artist.
 
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I'm afraid I'm a shameful philistine when it comes to modern art. It's mostly bollocks, if you ask me.

There's a fascinating new documentary on Sky Arts at the moment about hidden images in Turner paintings - Decoding Turner | Sky.com.

Without doubt my favourite artist.
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I've seen the Sky Arts documentary on Decoding Turner, it's brilliant. If I ever had the guts to go on Mastermind he would be my chosen specialist subject. Last year, my wife and I visited the Tate Modern. It wasn't for us. We managed about thirty minutes and we left. We then crossed the Millennium Bridge to St Pauls and visited his resting place in the crypt. We then went to the National Gallery and I felt somewhat emotional ( unusual for me ) when I stood face to face with the ' Fighting Temeraire ' ... my favourite ever painting, and so poignant. And it was free to do so , along with so many pieces of classic art also. I'm also very fortunate to live just across the River from Turner's House.
 
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Stroller said:
I'm afraid I'm a shameful philistine when it comes to modern art. It's mostly bollocks, if you ask me.

There's a fascinating new documentary on Sky Arts at the moment about hidden images in Turner paintings - Decoding Turner | Sky.com.

Without doubt my favourite artist.
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QPR999 said:
I've seen the Sky Arts documentary on Decoding Turner, it's brilliant. If I ever had the guts to go on Mastermind he would be my chosen specialist subject. Last year, my wife and I visited the Tate Modern. It wasn't for us. We managed about thirty minutes and we left. We then crossed the Millennium Bridge to St Pauls and visited his resting place in the crypt. We then went to the National Gallery and I felt somewhat emotional ( unusual for me ) when I stood face to face with the ' Fighting Temeraire ' ... my favourite ever painting, and so poignant. And it was free to do so , along with so many pieces of classic art also. I'm also very fortunate to live just across the River from Turner's House.
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I’ve no interest in entering a debate about it, it’s all personal taste of course, but I would recommend Hughes’ programme to at least get an understanding of where these artists were coming from and what they were trying to do. Of course most of it I wouldn’t look twice at either, but that would be true of art from any era.

Turner was of course a genius. But even his biggest fans dismissed his late work (ie after The Fighting Temeraire) as repulsive and senile at the time.
If you didn’t know this was Turner, through the colours and general style, would you like it?
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It’s called Light and Colour (Goethe’s Theory) The Morning After the Deluge, in case you couldn’t guess. I wouldn’t know what it’s about without looking it up but I love it and it’s clearly ‘modern’.
 
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I’ve no interest in entering a debate about it, it’s all personal taste of course, but I would recommend Hughes’ programme to at least get an understanding of where these artists were coming from and what they were trying to do. Of course most of it I wouldn’t look twice at either, but that would be true of art from any era.

Turner was of course a genius. But even his biggest fans dismissed his late work (ie after The Fighting Temeraire) as repulsive and senile at the time.
If you didn’t know this was Turner, through the colours and general style, would you like it?
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It’s called Light and Colour (Goethe’s Theory) The Morning After the Deluge, in case you couldn’t guess. I wouldn’t know without looking it up but I love it and it’s clearly ‘modern’.
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At first glance this looks like somebody's rear end to me, but I do like it!
 
sb_73 said:
I’ve no interest in entering a debate about it, it’s all personal taste of course, but I would recommend Hughes’ programme to at least get an understanding of where these artists were coming from and what they were trying to do. Of course most of it I wouldn’t look twice at either, but that would be true of art from any era.

Turner was of course a genius. But even his biggest fans dismissed his late work (ie after The Fighting Temeraire) as repulsive and senile at the time.
If you didn’t know this was Turner, through the colours and general style, would you like it?
You must log in or register to see images


It’s called Light and Colour (Goethe’s Theory) The Morning After the Deluge, in case you couldn’t guess. I wouldn’t know what it’s about without looking it up but I love it and it’s clearly ‘modern’.
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I do like it and think I would if it wasn't Turner.
 
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Stroller said:
Loving the Who in Hyde Park on Sky Arts right now.
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Just turned it on. ****ing great. I know it’s nearly ten years ago but Daltrey’s voice was amazing 50 years after they started. Great band and I agree on Zak, though Ringo was better than often credited. What was Lennon’s line? Something like, when Ringo was called the best drummer in the world by someone “he’s not even the best drummer in the Beatles”.

Entwhistle just about irreplaceable though.
 
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