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^^ I'm getting used to four hours of sleep at night. (I make up for it by sleeping in art history class redface )

Art historty too monotonous? That depens on who's teaching it. My repvieous classes were "Memorize these paintings, their painters, their dates, and their movement. Now research a movement."

My class now is much more interesing..all though maytbe that's because my teacher has ADD and a speach impediment. Good teacher though, one of the best.

Here's something that baffled me: the post-impresionism era came after the impresionism period, which lasted only 15 years to begin with....but this is the only teacher I have ever had who actually said "Yes. POST-impressonism came AFTER impressonism."

The whole class had this idea that the PI era came hundresd of years after Impressionim, when it was imidiate. Okay, maybe I'm the only person something like thsat could baffle.

Derogitory? I highly disagree.

Cloud Monet was an impresionist, Van Gogh as well. He did what we call "au planair", 20 minute paintings done outside. Everything is broken colour, no mixed paints, no defining shapes, and more shockingly at the time it did not depict soemtihng biblical or hisorical. Basicly the are an "impression" of real life. Like the way fog looks like over a dingy sunrise in a run down harbour.

Post-impressionism was more for artist interested in aspects of Imp, like Georges Seurat. Things are flatter, and there is an air of boardom over these paintings.

Actually, this all happened because of the photograph...but that's a much longer discussion...

I little later. Around the 1880's.

But then again, the term 'art' being seend as a cretive form of expresion is really quite a new idea. Artists were 'artisans' it was a trade, and they were trained for it, just like a plumper would be trained. There is nothing artistic about most renaissance paints, thet all look the same. Becuse the artisans were all trained the same. I won't say that there is no talent invlived, sure there is ton's of talent, but "artistic ability" i am not so convicned of.

Do I bore?

Twilight, Moonlight, is your translation site a mystery?

Damn, it's almost 1:30.

My last short post and then I'll be off.

I see, I'll continue a seach for the elvish one then. ^^

Night Miss Dawn.