Saturday, May 01, 2004
Search Engine Solves Mystery
COUNCIL BLUFFS -- Tonight, on his way home, Justin (24) thought of looking up an artist he and several of his friends at the seminary had marveled at one night over wisely-held bottles of beer.
But he had forgotten the artist's name.
He knew it would likely appear as a surreal artist, so when he awoke his sleeping computer and went to a search engine, he typed "surreal artists." As a first stab he thought he would try to find a page with links to different surreal artists, and then look upon said page for a link that would point him in the right direction. Then he remembered what little he knows about art history, and that Surrealism is too broad a category to find the particular artist he was looking for. "I need a more specific search string," he said to himself. "Were there any particular characteristics I could include in my search for the artist?"
This artist indeed had a distinct style, and after pondering it for a moment Justin came up with a winning string: "surreal painting meat".
After a couple red herrings, he found (almost) just what he was looking for--not the page itself, but the page that led to the page. The final destination? The art and paintings of Mark Ryden. Justin could now rest easy, knowing that he had put to rest his long-held angst over promptly forgetting the painter's name after the night of wisely-held beer.
So what's the art itself like? Check it out yourself. Think what would happen if Bosch, one of my absolute favorite painters, had been stuck painting books for children. I mean, I had luck finding the guy with the search string "surreal painting meat". You do the creepy math.
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