| Topic | Author | Replies | Last Post |
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| Michael Emerson - Headed for the Finish Line |
 AlaskaSteven
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1 | December 12, 2009 |
| Season 6 Promo |
B
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4 | December 6, 2009 |
| Season 5 |
Mr. M
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5 | December 3, 2009 |
| LOST Bifurcating Choices, Mandelbrot, and Julia Sets |
AlaskaSteven
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3 | November 13, 2009 |
| For the Record... |
AlaskaSteven
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1 | November 2, 2009 |
"Jeune Homme nu Assis au Bord de la Mer" homage by the late great John Blackburn
"Ah!" I commented aloud upon seeing the opening screenshot of LOST's season 4, episode 1, with great satisfaction, "An entirely worthy LOST homage to Hippolyte Flandrin's 'Jeune Homme nu Assis au Bord de la Mer'!" It seemed a nifty-cool LOST moment with which to open a new season, to me, but now I am wondering if my imagination simply ran away with itself. Since then (and it has been a while now) there has been no mention I have seen in the LOST lore and canon connecting the pile of mangoes Hurley plowed through with his old camero to Flandrin's very famous exquisite painting.
If you have seen the film "Gods and Monsters" then you are aware from that glimpse into the life of James Whale that it is fairly common for those who aspire to skill with painting to make their own versions or adaptations of the great masters most famous paintings. "Jeune Homme nu Assis au Bord de la Mer" by Flandrin is one such which has been copied many times, with many different variations, by painters during the last century-plus. My late friend John Blackburn was among them; here is a snapshot of his homage to "Jeune Homme nu Assis au Bord de la Mer" now hanging on a wall at my home. When I saw the pile of mangoes at the opening of season 4 my mind went immdeiately to "Jeune Homme nu Assis au Bord de la Mer" with the additional wonderance "...but where is the pleasantly buff lad?"
The absence of the lad from the otherwise intact scene by this famous French master struck me as potentially significant and quite LOST-worthy, at the time, but since then I have seen nothing come forth to elucidate a LOST connection between Flandrin, the missing figure, and "Jeune Homme nu Assis au Bord de la Mer."
So, am I just imagining it, or is there not a strong resemblance between the composition of this LOST pile of mangoes by the seaside and "Jeune Homme nu Assis au Bord de la Mer"? If I am not just imagining a strong similarity in the composition (especially given all of the Francophilia in LOST), then what does it mean that the magnificent youth in "Jeune Homme nu Assis au Bord de la Mer" is missing, LOST from this well-known scene?
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