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Post by terentiusfaber on Feb 12, 2024 19:26:14 GMT
I think I'm out. The only Beatles' songs I know of are 'Yellow Submarine' and 'Eleanor Rigby'.
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Post by kizolk on Feb 12, 2024 19:38:03 GMT
To Get Back on one's feet
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Feb 12, 2024 20:05:03 GMT
Yes.
The sculpture is called Getting Back on the Right Foot.
I wonder what most people make of it.
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Post by kizolk on Feb 12, 2024 20:08:24 GMT
Well, I'll keep to my "stone in his shoe" interpretation. After all, a work of art doesn't belong to the artist anymore when it's made public.
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Post by kizolk on Feb 12, 2024 20:09:28 GMT
Maybe it was a gold nugget, hence his expression. It's a metaphor for how hurdles can turn into blessings.
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Post by kizolk on Feb 12, 2024 20:51:52 GMT
I still wonder what he's wearing around his neck. And also what led the artist to want to illustrate that hybrid idiom, and why he did it that way. I don't think it's a very good representation, even when you know the title. It gives way too much importance to his shoe, which seems extraneous to the message.
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Post by Pacifica on Feb 12, 2024 20:59:50 GMT
It's hard to get, but I guess his right shoe, which has been taken off, is about to get back on his right foot.
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Post by Pacifica on Feb 12, 2024 21:01:09 GMT
And the man also will get back on his right foot once the shoe has been put back.
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Post by kizolk on Feb 12, 2024 21:01:46 GMT
It's hard to get, but I guess his right shoe, which has been taken off, is about to get back on his right foot. I missed that :/ |
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Post by Pacifica on Feb 12, 2024 21:02:32 GMT
Well, it isn't exactly obvious...
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Post by kizolk on Feb 12, 2024 21:18:52 GMT
No but it's obvious when you see it. Then again, I'm not in the artist's head, but the pun does make the sculpture seem a little less pointless.
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Feb 13, 2024 8:49:57 GMT
I have an idea that when I first tried to find out what it was, I found something that said it was paid for by someone who was grateful for the care that they or someone they knew had received at the hospital where the statue is located (St Mary's, Paddington). But I can't find it now. I did, however, find someone who took a picture that he put on Flickr and thought it was 'a cyclist apparently drinking from his shoe and stretching'.
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Post by Pacifica on Feb 13, 2024 8:57:31 GMT
That's imaginative. My first interpretation was the same as kizolk's.
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Post by kizolk on Feb 13, 2024 11:14:55 GMT
I have an idea that when I first tried to find out what it was, I found something that said it was paid for by someone who was grateful for the care that they or someone they knew had received at the hospital where the statue is located (St Mary's, Paddington). I looked it up when you revealed the answer and saw its location, and I thought the sculpture could be about recovery. |
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Post by terentiusfaber on Feb 13, 2024 11:28:21 GMT
If I had the money for the statue and the gratitude to the medical staff, I'd rather fund a day off for the nurses.
I don't think I'd be much of a patron of the Arts if I were wealthy.
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