When one is done with masterpiece like this, there is no place for 'abandon', frustration, putting aside or fighting it. I would change nothing. Boris Shoshensky
---------- Original Message ---------- From: armando baeza <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: armando baeza <[email protected]> Subject: Re: manet Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 12:47:31 -0800 My impression of being abandon,comes from my own experience of frustration ,when I loose the design on what I'm doing. Putting it aside for future work on it ,with a fresh mind is better than fighting it. mando On Nov 2, 2009, at 10:44 AM, Boris Shoshensky wrote: >> That painting seems like an abandon painting that was never finished. > > I don't have this impression. > Boris Shoshensky > > ---------- Original Message ---------- > From: armando baeza <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: armando baeza <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: manet > Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 20:05:23 -0800 > > That painting seems like an abandon painting that was never finished. > It looks like it started as still life painting of two tables with > liquor and glass > ware,great detail on the persimmons. Then he started to add the > center figure > which had too much detail for a still life quality, then started to > add those two > figures that would occupy the same standing area and never resolve it. > The yellow stripe indicates something (?). I think the right hand > on the woman > on the right became the last straw, and he stopped. > > Today photo realism is the thing, though i dislike that it's sold as > paintings. > I don't think I could feel comfortable doing that. > mando > > On Nov 1, 2009, at 8:19 AM, Chris Miller wrote: > >>> A painting is not a singularity - but an overlay of differing >>> systems and >> concerns ... the painting is only reducible to itself >> - because that is where all the parts are assembled" (Saul) >> >> No argument from any of us about that. >> >> But you did begin your essay on Manet by unequivocally placing one >> concern >> above another: >> >> "Manet's last painting 'Bar at the Folies Berghres', which seems at >> first >> sight to be a reflective study of an observer of the main action, >> turns out to >> be a paean to visual space." >> >> Perhaps it was written too quickly. >> >> ____________________________________________________________ >> Weight Loss Program >> Best Weight Loss Program - Click Here! >> http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2231/c?cp=DQbs_h3ReVE55uk28- >> hxkAAAJz6c >> l_zTaptgNR5c8Mer1v9kAAYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEUgAAA >> A >> A=
