On Aug 31, 2009, at 9:08 AM, [email protected] wrote:
But it takes time to look at something,sometimes hours or days, and
you can
remember what you thouhgt you saw at one point and then at another.
You
don't just look at something and see it all at once. The first
seeing of
something is an impression, a burst, and while you should remember
that burst,
it
isn't the whole thing. I might think that I don't want to look at
something
but that's "don't want", not "that's terrible". Conversely I might
want to
look at something and then be disappointed on further acquaintance.
I was contrasting the immediacy of looking at a painting or sculpture
with the slow exposition of a book or play. You cannot experience the
play all at once, as you can the painting. The story is always
unfolding or being remembered, whereas the painting is completely
present. True, you can look at this part or that part more or less
separately, but you can also step back and see the entire work in one
take, which you cannot do with music or stories. Memory plays a far
greater role in them than in visual art.
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