Confused Posted April 2, 2014 Report Share Posted April 2, 2014 Cryptics seek artists to bond with. They are the “liespren.” They look for some mix of lies and truth, or more precisely, the lies that illuminate the truth – the artist’s deeper truth. That is why the Lightweavers are populated by artists, according to the in-book Words of Radiance. This got me wondering: what would happen if a different artist than Shallan drew Veil? Would Rembrandt’s Veil be much darker and more brooding? Would Monet’s sparkle with light depending on the time of day, or Degas' show her from the diagonal corner of the room? Would Vermeer’s shine with camera-like precision, or da Vinci's or Michelangelo's flow with an ideal perfection? And if Picasso drew Veil, how many breasts would he give her as he captured her movements through time? Any other “writers, artists, musicians, painters, sculptors” (Epigraph to Chapter 49) you might suggest? Just wondering… 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adolin_Dustbringer Posted April 2, 2014 Report Share Posted April 2, 2014 I don't think Jackson Pollock's Veil would really work for a disguise. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dalenthas Posted April 2, 2014 Report Share Posted April 2, 2014 He said artists, not hacks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Confused Posted April 2, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 2, 2014 More artistic renderings of Veil. First a line from King Lear that runs through my mind as I read SA: “As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods, They kill us for their sport.” Writers: John Le Carré: Veil would infiltrate a secret organization as a counter-spy. (Oh, wait, she’s already done that…) Dickens: Veil would observe and comment on every small detail she encounters. (Oh, wait, she’s done that too…) T. Dreiser or U. Sinclair: Veil would lament social injustice. Horatio Alger: Veil drags herself up by her raggedy bootstraps and achieves prominence and wealth. (And she’s done that too!) Milton: Veil would be the courageous, long-suffering epic anti-hero. Shakespeare: Veil would speak in iambic pentameter. Dryden or Pope: Veil would speak in rhymed couplets. Joyce: Nobody would understand Veil. T.S. Eliot: Veil would decry the insubstantiality of the modern world and focus instead on timeless values. (And have lots of mewling cats around…) Keats: Veil would speak lushly and romantically about pottery and birds and unrequited love. D.H. Lawrence: Veil would take her clothes off. Henry Miller: Veil would take her clothes off and do the nasty – a lot… Cervantes: Veil would become a knight errant and abject do-gooder. (Wait, she IS a knight…) Kafka: Veil would find herself in the most unusual situations. Dostoevsky: Veil would behave like Adolin. (Wait, she’s done that too…) Musicians and Composers: Hendrix or Clapton: Veil would speak incredibly fast in hard-driving rhythms. John Bonham or Keith Moon: Veil would speak like the Parshendi. Wynton Marsallis: Veil would be very brassy. Vivaldi: Veil would repeat herself a lot. Bach: Veil would speak with mathematical precision. Mozart: Veil would be vivacious and speak in the higher registers. Beethoven: Veil would be profound and speak in the lower registers. Wagner: Veil would speak bombastically. (Woody Allen joke: “I like Wagner. But after I listen to him, I feel like invading Poland.”) Brahms: Veil would be depressed. Dvorak: Veil would be sentimental. Stravinsky: Veil would start a riot. Schoenberg: Veil would invent a new way of talking. Painters and Sculptors Grandma Moses: Veil would appear as a stick figure. Titian: Veil would only wear red. Gainsborough: Veil would only wear blue. Watteau – Veil would only wear pastels. Van Gogh: Veil would only have one ear. Rodin: Veil would think a lot. Bartholdi: Veil would be colossal. Constable – Veil would always walk beneath clouds. Feel free to add others… 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HydrogenAlpha Posted April 2, 2014 Report Share Posted April 2, 2014 George R.R Martin: Veil would probably die during a wedding and later be resurrected by a red priest Herald. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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