Game: This or That

[North Star]

Chopin. Life can be beautiful.

An excellent answer. Of course, Berlioz can be beautiful too.

Electric shaver

Chopin mazurkas or preludes?

[Pike Bishop]

Berlioz

Charlie Parker or John Coltrane?

[Pompey Bum]

Preludes (or Waltzes)

Augustine or Luther?

[Lykren]

Another early morning favourite is surely Beethoven's Great Fugue.

You tease, you!

I've never read either! But Trane over Bird for sure.

Oboe or clarinet? Careful now!

[North Star]

You tease, you!

I've never read either! But Trane over Bird for sure.

Ditto.

Clarinet.

Calvin or Hobbes? (you can interpret this either way...)

[Lykren]

Wise choice

Hobbes, I'm a solipsist! edit: I see what you did there... going with the comic strip interpretation here...

Electronic music or punk rock?

[Pompey Bum]

Punk

And Hobbes over Calvin, but only just.

Grimm or Hans Christian Andersen?

[Lykren]

And Hobbes over Calvin, but only just.

Comic strip characters or theologians?

Haven't read since childhood, and those were watered-down versions of Grimm I bet, but, I like Andersen's whimsicality. I also have fond memories of the ornate illustrations. So him not Grimm.

Mary Barnard's Sappho, or Anne Carson's? Pompey, if you answer you're not allowed to say Sappho's Sappho!

[North Star]

Pentti Saarikoski's Sappho.

Renoir or Monet?

[Pike Bishop]

I'm not fond of Impressionism, but Renoir

Tennessee Williams or Arthur Miller?

[North Star]

I'm not fond of Impressionism, but Renoir

Well, neither was Renoir

Williams, but I must get more familiar with both, really.


Picasso or Van Gogh?

[Lykren]

Gogh, Gogh, Gogh! Not a shred of uncertainty for me. I'm hopelessly emotional.

I also need to read more Williams and Miller. American drama's something I've not delved into.

Okay, painters, hmm. Turner or Constable?

[North Star]

Agreed on Gogh.

Hah! I very nearly posted that pair
As much as I love Constable's nature studies, Turner wins easily with his masterful use of oils and watercolours.

Vermeer or Rubens?

[Pike Bishop]

Vermeer

Pollock or DeKooning?

[Lykren]

Agreed on Gogh.

Hah! I very nearly posted that pair
As much as I love Constable's nature studies, Turner wins easily with his masterful use of oils and watercolours.

Vermeer or Rubens?

Oh yes they're usually a pair. Turner? Agreed.

For me Vermeer. Rubens to me is too blunt or too obvious or something. Vermeer of course could be too subtle for some people's taste. I know stluke is a huge Rubens fan, he loves to talk about Rubens' women. Fleshy nudes are fun, I suppose. But GWPE is more seductive in my eyes, Girl With a Red Hat more deliciously tangy, Woman With a Pearl Necklace a symbol (as I see it) of worship to the mystery of materiality more profound than Helene Fourment.

Rembrandt or Da Vinci?

EDIT: late again. DeKooning I think. Other than Rothko not really into Abstract Expressionism, though.

So, Rembrandt or Da Vinci?