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Still life or road-kill?

Posted: October 20th 2009 17:21. Last modified: October 20th 2009 17:23

There’s an oddly proportioned hare in one of this autumn’s auctions in Barcelona.

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Categories: Food, God, the angels and the orders of the faithful, Heathen gods, Les bourgeois, Of decorating with pictures, Spectacles, Wild beasts

Does anyone actually use the CCCB website?

Posted: February 7th 2009 10:02. Last modified: February 7th 2009 19:55

They can’t spell the name of their main exhibition. Plus: Raval teachers.

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Categories: Les bourgeois

Bus numbers in Barcelona atheist campaign evidence cabbalistic life-death struggle

Posted: January 12th 2009 12:36.

Artful Mr Kokon notes that the number of items in Goya’s Black Paintings is the same as the number of one of the buses used in the campaign–14–, that the number of items in a series of morbid wood engravings by Hans Holbein the Younger is the same as the number of the other–41–, and [...]

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Categories: Heathen philosophers, Heresy, Les bourgeois, Splog

Jaws is not a feminist shero

Posted: January 9th 2009 16:16. Last modified: January 9th 2009 17:14

Lunch topics:

Marianism and genital iconography, as in The Virgin Mary is a hairy vagina. Conclusion: this one smells of red herring–she actually belongs to the sun.
The inability of “artists” to fit a proper fanny and a proper face into the same screen. The three best known forerunners of Bob Guccione-style gynaecology, Courbet’s stilled life Origin [...]

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Categories: Fishes, Les bourgeois, The sea

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  • March 22 1460 El príncipe de Viana alcanza por primera vez el perdon de su padre, y se viene de Mallorca á Barcelona.
  • March 22 1848 

    En obsequio del beato José Oriol, cuyo fiesta se celebra mañana en la parroquia de Ntra. Sra. del Pino, se cantan en la misma iglesia solemnes maitines á las 4 y media de la tarde de hoy.

Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)

  • 22 de març de 1919 Alta cultura. Les coses, és clar, haurien pogut ésser diferents… En acabar el batxillerat, la meva intenció no fou pas d’estudiar per advocat. M’hauria agradat més d’estudiar química, i per tal de servir el que jo creia que era la meva vocació, vaig matricular-me al preparatori de Ciències. Matricular-se! Prenguin nota de la parauleta! El [...]

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