User talk:Johnbod/GLAM-WIKI talk

Fringe

If speaking within the context of VA articles and to that audience, it might be instructiful to mention the fringe views often pused on Bosch's articles as a relatable eg of the wider problem the project is faced with. The talk page of Mona Lisa is similarly troubled as it does not have an OWNer. You can frame the irony as you wish. Great incites otherwise, verbalised a lot of latent thoughts, would like to have heard it, was there tapes, etc? Ceoil (talk) 00:24, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks - No tapes, I'm afraid. I have a list of fringe stuff (Venus figurines as mushrooms etc), but Bosch is one to add. The other talk linked on my use page is more recent & develops some themes. Johnbod (talk) 01:43, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Related to the Bosch fringe is the sexual aspect ascribed, by some, to the van Eyck marraige portrait. I would also make the point that the larger the topic the more difficult it is to control, and that while wiki pretends to welcome Randy from Boise over experts, in the painting articles at least the community is small enough (maybe 20 people?) that that Randy will always loose. Thinking again of your auidence, but of course it doesn't scale. I've thought a lot about the critism of the Goya article, and tried to tackle, but I think in the end the journalist was being cute and clever; can you think of a more difficult old master lead to write? Who knows what the man really thouight, and who would be arrogant enough to pot it in three handy paragraphs. Not me, thats for sure. Ceoil (talk) 02:38, 13 November 2011 (UTC)