Miller makes a bad point:"...(i.e. the edges are there - but like everything else in the room while the painting is being made, they're not very important)
Boris Shoshensky -- "Chris Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The more compelling the image, the less important the frame -- and if a painting is large enough (wall size)or long enough (scroll size) the framing becomes irrevelant when standing close enough to make sense of the image. So while the first mark on a canvas should be considered the fifth mark in some kinds of painting -- in others, it's still just the first mark. (i.e. the edges are there - but like everything else in the room while the painting is being made, they're not very important) Why is this so difficult for our two modernistas to comprehend ? Despite the diversity allowed by post-modernism -- they still assert that there are two ways to make and view visual art: their way and the wrong way. (and it doesn't seem like that narrowness of view is shared by the modernistas of music or literature. It's a unique characteristic of the visual artworld -- along with the almost religious fervor of proclamation, revelation, and hysterical denunciation) One should understand that the most important aspect of the picture frame and or edges of the canvas is to delimit perceptual space in order to heighten awareness of the thing itself - isolate it, to some degree, from its surroundings. This technique of delimiting perceptual space (perceptual cropping) is probably as old as human consciousness and is useful in all the visual arts including architecture. ____________________________________________________________ Stuck in a dead end job?? Click to start living your dreams by earning an online degree. http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2231/fc/Ioyw6ijmibprlr5oyAc4E98isgiou1 1pShWiElzaRiiwcpKVO0k8T6/
