hanging out with artists

[Veva]

If you were to hang out with a group of writers or any other artists of particular art form, who would they be? I would choose surrealists or existentialists... :D

[Kafka's Crow]

Dadaists or les symbolistes.

[Dark Muse]

Pre-Raphaelites

[JBI]

Katherine Mansfield and her circle.

[johann cruyff]

Katherine Mansfield and her circle.

Also, Jayne Mansfield. :D:blush:

[Niamh]

Either impressionists or surealists for art.
Any type of writers really.

[mayneverhave]

I would want to drink absinthe with Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Pound, Eliot and the like.

[Kafka's Crow]

I would want to drink absinthe with Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Pound, Eliot and the like.

That would be fun, watching Eliot drink absinthe ("Before the taking of a toast and tea")!!! Eliot and absinthe :lol:

[Etienne]

With Diderot, Alembert, Voltaire and friends.

[Statistic]

It appears to me that most writers are only interesting on the page, and that their lives consist of, well, writing. Any excitement they had usually seems to have occured before they became authors, and so it'd be pointless to hang out with a bunch of retired farts who don't do anything fun. And that applies double to a lot of the stuffy old authors on this site, because they lived in times without electricity.

I'd pick writers who became explorers or mercaneries or pirates after they wrote books, and who quit writing. Sadly, no examples come to mind.

Suggestions?

[papayahed]

I would want to drink absinthe with Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Pound, Eliot and the like.

ohhh, good choice. I was going to say the beats but I'll put them second to this group.

[qspeechc]

I doesn't matter as along as they're different from me!

[stlukesguild]

I'd pick writers who became explorers or mercaneries or pirates after they wrote books, and who quit writing. Sadly, no examples come to mind.

Rimbaud

As I am an artist and I regularly hang out with other artists I somehow doubt that the image of artists hanging out is as romantic as some might have painted it. I think if I did choose a group to hang out with it would have to be either the Impressionists or the School of Paris... where Modernism was being given birth to and ideas were flying fast and furious. The only era is the visual arts of comparable genius would have to be the Renaissance, and while I would have loved to have observed Michelangelo or Raphael or Botticelli in action, one never gets the image of these artists hanging out as a group... drinking... discussing art... insulting each others' latest efforts.

Also, Jayne Mansfield.

Yes Jayne Mansfield might have been a far more interesting "artist" to hang out with.:lol:

[kasie]

Also, Jayne Mansfield.

Yes Jayne Mansfield might have been a far more interesting "artist" to hang out with.:lol:

Boys! Boys! Behave yourselves!

I am fortunate in knowing several people who make their living in 2D and 3D art. I find their company fascinating - they are not 'great artists' but competent enough in their fields to make a living for themselves. I am useless at 'art' - words are my medium - and I find it interesting to be with people who comprehend the world in visual terms. One step-daughter cannot express herself unless she has a pencil in her hand: she fumbles for words but give her a pencil and paper, and she's away, the words flow freely as the sketch grows under her fingers. I'd be well off for her drawings if she didn't screw them up and throw then away as soon as the discussion is finished, thy have served their purpose as aids to communication and as far as she is concerned have no intrinsic value, they are not 'proper' drawings. So the answer to the OP is, I suppose - anyone.

[Pecksie]

The Shelley and Byron circle. Of course, I'd be dating Percy B. :)

[Kafka's Crow]

Boys! Boys! Behave yourselves!

They are talking about Jayne Mansfield so you should rephrase:

"Boys! Boys! Don't lose your heads over Jayne M!" (now that is one sick joke, sorry!)