Only if that realist is a materialist , let us say akin to Manet or Courbet - who understood all things are a assemblages - machines and that this is their essence
On 4/11/09 11:52 PM, "armando baeza" <[email protected]> wrote: Now your talking like a realist artist mando On Apr 11, 2009, at 8:46 PM, Saul Ostrow wrote: > Why would a chair have an essence - its design and it manufacture > may describe > a chair's essence - but this would not refect its function but > perhaps the > act of sitting > > > On 4/11/09 11:35 PM, "armando baeza" <[email protected]> wrote: > > When one describes a chair, one may say the essence of the chair is > ( something to sit on).In an "art experssion" it can be a log, a rock, > a stool, a human or any thing one can sit on. What is the essence of > a bottle" a flower, a human. I t exist's because you recognize it. > You express it's form, which differs from any one else. yours is > unique. > mando > On Apr 11, 2009, at 8:03 PM, [email protected] wrote: > >> What is the essence, why it exists and how it is formed? >> Boris Shoshensky >> >> > > ____________________________________________ Saul Ostrow | Visual Arts & Technologies Environment Chair, Sculpture Voice: 216-421-7927 | [email protected] | www.cia.edu<http://www.cia.edu/> The Cleveland Institute of Art | 11141 East Boulevard, Cleveland, OH 44106 ____________________________________________ > > Saul Ostrow | Visual Arts & Technologies Environment Chair, Sculpture > > Voice: 216-421-7927 | [email protected] | www.cia.edu<http:// > www.cia.edu/> > > The Cleveland Institute of Art | 11141 East Boulevard, Cleveland, > OH 44106 > > > > ---------- Original Message ---------- > >> From: armando baeza <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Cc: armando baeza <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: Heidegger: truth and art >> Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:00:36 -0700 >> >> The purpose of art is to express the essence to your pleasure and sit >> back and enjoy. >> mando >> On Apr 11, 2009, at 7:26 AM, Michael Brady wrote: >> >>> On Apr 11, 2009, at 10:17 AM, Saul Ostrow wrote: >>> >>>> ""The purpose of art is to impart the sensation of things as they >>>> are >>>> perceived and not as they are known. The technique of art is to >>>> make objects >>>> 'unfamiliar', to make forms difficult, to increase the difficulty >>>> and length >>>> of perception because the process of perception is an aesthetic >>>> end in itself >>>> and must be prolonged." (Shklovsky, "Art as Technique")" >>> >>> Aha, back to the Russian Formalists and our brief mention of them >>> last August! Ta da! >>> >>> >>> | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | >>> Michael Brady >>> [email protected] >> >> ____________________________________________________________ >> Always be in contact with a new pager. Click now! >> http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2241/fc/ >> BLSrjpYRtj8RPa92Zd73ZkE9X2i522 >> YEJmFRwOoQy5anA41cIJkv7YgWmw4/ > > > > -- --
