Red Moon Cafe

Books, poetry, photography, jazz, Kansas & the Great Plains, Irish music, and teaching college English, with forays into other areas occasionally

Name: firstcitybook
Location: Leavenworth, Kansas, United States

I have multiple degrees in English and currently teach college writing online. I would most like to live on the other side of the 98th meridian where it would be possible to see a great distance when stepping outside the door. Forced to live where the jobs are, I currently reside in the well-watered East, a couple of hundred miles east of the 98th meridian, with my wife and son.

Saturday, October 03, 2009

Puzzlement

That entry devoted to a reclining nude, not the Lucian Freud painting itself but the links to Giorgione, Titan, and Manet, has been generating a lot of traffic. When I did an image search on Google for Giorgione’s Sleeping Venus, my blog doesn’t appear anywhere on the first fifteen pages. When I created that post, I expressed surprise at the money that Lucian Freud’s painting went for at auction, examined briefly the meaning behind the image, and articulated the convention of the reclining nude female in painting. Perhaps I should be pleased at the traffic that I'm getting. In researching this post, I have now realized that Google places my blog second in an image search for "reclining supervisor" and the image that accompanies the post is, ironically, Giorgione's Sleeping Venus. That error explains this mystery.

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