Michael: OK. I concede your point. Does this apply in ballet? If the
execution of all dancers is important, on what basis is a dscrimination made
to promote one from the corps de ballet to be a principal dancer?
Geoff C
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Subject: Re: Perceptual Cropping was Marks on Canvas
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 21:04:57 -0400
On Oct 6, 2008, at 8:42 PM, GEOFF CREALOCK wrote:
Could it be that all marks are equivalent has more to do with say,
abstract expressionism than
Asserting that all marks are equivalent doesn't mean that all marks convey
the same descriptive or pictorial effect. Which pieces of wood are not
important in the floor? Which bricks are less important in the wall? But
which have more dramatic or picturesque effect?
The painter claims responsibility for everything inside the edges of the
canvas, whether the painting is an "abstract" image of non- descriptive
shapes and colors, or a "realistic" image with highly descriptive shapes.
In your other message, you muse that people might object if Mona's nose
was longer. But we have a similar example: Matisse's painting of his wife
with a green nose. The critics sniffed at it, but that painting
demonstrates that the painter is responsible for all the marks, and they
are all equivalent on the surface of the canvas.
Reminds me of the shrewd quip, "My, we've had a lot of weather this year."
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