telly, larnax, dawg, shotgun marriage, brinner, brupper

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
“When you paint on something you change your perception of what it is.” —Ceramist Betty Woodman

In this episode of The Artist Project, Woodman highlights this Minoan terracotta larnax, on view in gallery 151. http://met.org/1T7Ucjl‪#‎MetArtistProject‬




BETTY WOODMAN

on a Minoan terracotta larnax



DUSTIN YELLIN

on ancient Near Eastern cylinder seals


When you paint on something you change your perception of what it is.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Betty Woodman, born 1930, is an American artist. The vessel and ceramics have been at the center of her practice for the past 60 years. She lives and works in New York and outside of Florence, Italy.


Betty Woodman (American, born Norwalk, Connecticut, 1930).The Ming Sisters, 2003 Glazed earthenware, epoxy resin, lacquer and paint; 32 × 81 × 8 in. (81.3 × 205.7 × 20.3 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Gift of The A. L. Levine Family Foundation, by exchange, 2003 (2003.413a–c) © Betty Woodman

AS SEEN IN THE EPISODE




Minoan. Terracotta larnax (chest-shaped coffin), mid-13th century B.C. Terracotta. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Anonymous Gift, in memory of Nicolas and Mireille Koutoulakis, 1996 (1996.521a, b)
Gallery 151

shotgun marriage

noun

informal

noun: shotgun wedding

1. an enforced or hurried wedding, especially because the bride is pregnant.

   "their vision of Europe is fundamentally different from ours and a shotgun marriage would be in 

telly 

Pronunciation: /ˈtɛli/ 

NOUN (plural tellies)

British

Informal term for television.there’d been a cowboy film on telly[COUNT NOUN]: a black-and-white telly

Urban Dictionary: brinner

www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=brinner

brinner. (brin-ner) adj. breakfast eaten at the time in which you eat dinner. for brinner, i had pancakes with a side of bacon. by David Sanchez April 02, 2006.

brupper - Wiktionary

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/brupper

Noun[edit]. brupper (plural bruppers). (humorous slang) A meal consisting of a fusion of breakfast (one's first meal upon awakening) and supper.

dawg 

Pronunciation: /dɔːɡ/ 

NOUN

Non-standard spelling of dog, used especially to represent American speech. 微粗話：稱對方....

Example sentences

• Would I rather be called a bitch or a female dawg?
• Because I was on a flight originating from Jamaica, all passengers from this flight had to walk in single file, so that the dawg could sniff us out.
• I got some dawgs runnin’ around heah, and I don't know who dawgs they is, and they pit bulls, and I want somebody to come and get 'em.

larnax
音節 lar • nax 発音 lɑ'ːrnæks

[名詞] (pl. -na・kes［-nəkìːz］) 〔考古〕 ラルナクス：古代ギリシアで用いられたテラコッタ製の装飾棺.［語源］1870.＜ギリシャ語 lárnax 収納箱，つぼ