I had in mind secular baroque painting of the 17-18C which was often filled with many allusions or references to the most obscure fables, myths, and legends. Even now, scholars have trouble sorting out the references. Aside from religious paintings decorating churches, etc., which made sense to their original everyday audiences and are now somewhat obscure, there were works, like the class of work I refer to, that were intentionally obscure even to their intended audiences, and that's the difference I had in mind. WC
________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 3:30:34 PM Subject: Re: Heidegger and puzzling In a message dated 4/15/09 1:54:51 PM, [email protected] writes: > In various eras, art was made to remain opaque to all but a few insiders > who enjoyed puzzling over content and references, the iconology and the > iconography.B > this is interesting. In what era was art not opaque? You could claim religious painting,most of which is opaque to us and much of which was possibly very blurry to the general population. Kate Sullivan ************** Great deals on Dellbs most popular laptops b Starting at $479 (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1220631252x1201390195/aol?redir=http :%2F%2Fad.doubleclick.net%2Fclk%3B213968550%3B35701427%3Bh)
