This is my theory based on my understanding of dialectic reasoning. It is not as confusing as it sounds. Eliminating all associations is to find absolute abstraction-spirituality. 'Practically' impossible, 'artistically' we can come close- like 'finding' soul, spirit, god. The trick is - we can move toward abstraction only via representation, of the environment we were evolved in. Boris Shoshensky To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Meanings, nothing more than meanings ... Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 20:23:29 GMT
I have to admit that you've got me puzzled, here, Boris. A few days ago you declared that "Eliminating all associations is a noble effort in art" If successful, wouldn't that leave a painting with no representative element at all? But then yesterday, when I wrote: "We have at least two listers who believe that it is noble to paint with no representative element at all." You then replied: "I am not one of them." ........................................................................ This is all so confusing! Perhaps it relates to the theme of one my favorite books of Japanese history, "The Nobility of Failure" -- where the nobility comes from undertaking an impossible, often suicidal, challenge. Success only proves that whatever the challenge was, it was not great enough - i.e. something like shooting tigers in a cage. ____________________________________________________________ Click here for great quotes from top international movers! http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2231/fc/BLSrjnxXlVhgZI6uOj5XLdgxcqPOmj 2kVaEQMAQy4SoAP7kvM1BMXVVY1OY/
