Art That Has Changed Your Life?
Art That Has Changed Your Life?
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#0Art That Has Changed Your Life?
Posted: 5/24/06 at 8:04pm
FILM:
2001
Clockwork Orange
About Schmidt
Pulp Fiction
Brazil
THEATER:
Angels in America
To name a few
Updated On: 5/24/06 at 08:04 PM
#1re: Art That Has Changed Your Life?
Posted: 5/24/06 at 9:48pm
Film: To Kill A Mockingbird, It's A Wonderful Life
Play/Musical: Rent
TV Show: M*A*S*H
Song: Never Surrender
Artist: Monet
"NOT MY DAUGHTER, YOU BITCH!"
#2re: Art That Has Changed Your Life?
Posted: 5/24/06 at 9:53pm
No film has yet to change my lfe...
THEATER:
Hair (Houston production)
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
SweetQintheLights
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/05
#3re: Art That Has Changed Your Life?
Posted: 5/24/06 at 9:54pm
Lets see how long it will take for someone to write something about
children&art
"How bout a little black dress?"~hannahshule
"I have a penis, not a vagina." ~munkustrap178
peggyandvelma
Broadway Star Joined: 9/4/05
#4re: Art That Has Changed Your Life?
Posted: 5/25/06 at 12:48am
Book: The Lord of the Rings trilogy
It was a whole new ballgame after that.
No one is alone.
Broadway Star Joined: 12/31/69
#5re: Art That Has Changed Your Life?
Posted: 5/25/06 at 12:55amMy amazing art experiences were going to the Lourve and d'Orsay. Specifically Liberty Leading the People at the Lourve and the Monet room in the Orsay.
neddyfrank2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/05
#6re: Art That Has Changed Your Life?
Posted: 5/25/06 at 1:26am
Okay you guys are all going to kill me for this one but Wicked. Let me explain, it's not Wicked itself, but it is what brought me to the world of Broadway. When I was a little kid my grandma would take me to see a play almoust every other weekend. I loved going to the theater, but I never would take the time to read about the shows, or look up their history. I really loved theater, and it was one of the best things in my life, and I kinda/sorta knew what broadway was but I never really really really knew exactly what it was. I thinking at first it was one theater, then not understanding how long a show would run on broadway. Anyways flash foward to 2002, I was with my mom and we were talking to Marc Platt at a Bar Mitzvah. The Platt's and my family had always been family friends, and I knew he did movies, but I never really paid attention to it. So, we were talking with him and asked what his newest project was and he told us Wicked, and then he told us what it was about etc. When I got home, my mom asked me to look it up, after a while, I finally got around to it. From then on, I would check up on Wicked regularly, when Opening Night came, I was at my house sitting hitting the refresh button on the keyboard. Soon after I started checking out Broadway.com then Playbill.com and then Broadwayworld.com. Wicked introduced me to a wonderful world, that I never knew existed. Now I don't think that Wicked is really all that good, but it is the story behind it that changed my life, forever.
Film: By far, Billy Elliot
Updated On: 5/25/06 at 01:26 AM
CurtainUp
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/9/04
#7re: Art That Has Changed Your Life?
Posted: 5/25/06 at 1:38am
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail - by Lawrence and Lee
And it's trite, but in a sense Rent was lifechanging for me. Sorry.
Rosencrantz: "Be happy - if you're not even HAPPY what's so good about surviving? We'll be all right. I suppose we just go on."
- from Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
#8re: Art That Has Changed Your Life?
Posted: 5/25/06 at 1:48am
ART:
"The Marriage of the Arnolfini"
"The School of Athens"
"The Last Supper" (Da Vinci)
FILM:
"The Hours"
"Y Tu Mama Tambien"
"Schindler's List"
THEATRE:
"Into the Woods"
"Follies"
"Angels in America"
"Sunday in the Park with George"
"A Streetcar Named Desire"
"The Glass Menagerie"
"Sixteen Wounded"
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
#9re: Art That Has Changed Your Life?
Posted: 5/25/06 at 1:54am
There are a lot of different *ways* in which art has changed my life, but without going into how each thing caused change...
Art: Picasso's work, in general.
Theatre: Angels in America, Rent, The Normal Heart, and I'd perhaps say Cabaret, too. There are others.
Film is a tough one, since I don't see enough of it, but Angels in America, Life is Beautiful (which I hated originally, oddly enough). I want to say Brokeback Mountain because of the emotional impact, but I'm not sure exactly how to validate and justify how it's "life changing." Munk's list reminded me that I'm ashamed to have never seen Schindler's List.
#10re: Art That Has Changed Your Life?
Posted: 5/25/06 at 2:02am
Not the most significant pieces I've ever experienced, but ones that for very specific reasons had an impact in my life:
Art: Guernica (Picasso)
Book: The Black Album (Hanif Kureishi) and Cien Años de Soledad (Gabriel García Márquez)
Film: Annie Hall
Theater: Sweeney Todd
#11re: Art That Has Changed Your Life?
Posted: 5/25/06 at 2:13am
Movie: Sophies Choice
Sculpture: The Dying Gaul, Capitoline Museum, Rome
Art: Holocaust art by David Olere, especially "Unable to Work".
Music: Overture from Hansel and Gretal (the opera)
Literature: Johnny Tremain
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story...
AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956
#12re: Art That Has Changed Your Life?
Posted: 5/25/06 at 3:13am
Books: Kind of geeky, but the American Girl books. Not really great literature, but it was the fact that it combined so many of my interests in a way that appealed to me at that age. I've read an unnatural amount of literature since then, but those were the first books written for children that I actually loved.
Theatre:
A Chorus Line
tick, tick...BOOM!
Rent
(cliché, but the similar themes in them had a huge impact on the way I thought about my life and my future)
Artist: Michelangelo (psh modern art)
Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how
Wanting life but never knowing how
#13re: Art That Has Changed Your Life?
Posted: 5/27/06 at 2:10am
Theatre:
Into the Woods
Dancing at Lughnasa
I Remember Mama
Dybbuk
The Last 5 Years
Movies:
Life as a House
When Harry Met Sally
Television:
Moonlighting
(Hey, life is funny in addition to being profound!)
Books:
Kurt Vonnegut stuff
The Lovely Bones
Catcher in the Rye
Black and Blue
Videos