Sunday, 23 May 2010

Bitter!

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8 comments:

Rob Sterowski said...

Bitter? You'd be pretty sour-faced too if you had to wear a corset as tight as that.

23 May 2010 at 10:47
Ed said...

She'll cheer up once she's had some Bass.

23 May 2010 at 11:09
StringersBeer said...

I'm not sure why I ordered that octuple gin with the roses in.

23 May 2010 at 14:41
Martyn Cornell said...

Apparently this was faked up in his studio, so there's no evidence the actual bar served Bass at all. (Though it probably did …)

23 May 2010 at 16:45
Matt said...

I remember watching an Open University programme about this painting years ago. The professor presenting it made a lot of the fact that it isn't a true reflection, i.e. the customer is in front of the barmaid in the mirror but doesn't actually appear in the foreground.

24 May 2010 at 01:10
Ron Pattinson said...

Matt, nit-picking arsehole. The professor. Take that approach and you can pick oles in most art.

And there are bottles of Bass there. Why look any deeper?

24 May 2010 at 13:28
Lars Marius Garshol said...

Of course the painting is a true reflection. It's what the man in the mirror is seeing.

25 May 2010 at 11:23
StringersBeer said...

Nothing about the picture is a mistake. It's a whole pile of products and labels arranged as a bunch of "still lifes", the lowest level in the "hierarchy of genres", framing a portrait of - who?.

Manet has even signed it on a bottle label (at the left). Bass? Famous for it's label trademark. It's also, famously, a picture of a reflection.

It's not a picture of beer - except perhaps of beer as artifice, as product.

Or something.

27 May 2010 at 04:45

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