That's interesting William, I really need to go read Delacroix. But what you write sort of touches on something I've been thinking about a lot. I've recently started working with an adagio pair while they train; the part I find most fascinating is the moment just before they execute a move. I'm not too sure how to express it, and I sure can't draw it (yet), it's like all the potential for the future and all the history of struggle to get to that point are focused on that moment.
Adagio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adagio_(acrobatic) Or maybe I'd be better off going and looking at Delacroix. I'm surprised the following article hasn't come up here, since it was linked on Arts and Letters Daily ( http://www.aldaily.com ). It concerns Wittgenstein's concept of thinking in images, and "Look, don't think." http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/art-and-design/2012/08/ludwig-wittgenstei ns-passion-looking-not-thinking Tinyurl: http://tinyurl.com/c7d9ug2 Cheers; Chris On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 10:05 AM, William Conger <[email protected]> wrote: > Delacroix wrote about what he considered to be the "classic" ideal. For him it > was the capacity of an artwork to evoke both the past and the future in the > present. That would be the opposite of what you quote below. It's very tough > to outhink Delacroix. Few people have read his Journals but I would encourage > it as a wonderful opportunity to learn about modernism at its birth from one of > the great minds of the 19C. > wc > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: joseph berg <[email protected]> > To: aesthetics-l <[email protected]> > Sent: Thu, August 30, 2012 4:50:27 AM > Subject: "The work of art, as I said a moment ago, becomes in the modernized > context one of the moments of arrested development, of stasis or stillness, > which seems temporarily at least to stay the hand of relentless and > accelerating revolution." > > "The work of art, as I said a moment ago, becomes in the modernized context > one of the moments of arrested development, of stasis or stillness, which > seems temporarily at least to stay the hand of relentless and accelerating > revolution." > > http://books.google.com/books?id=MWSo04n0Vp4C&pg=PA113&lpg=PA113&dq=%22The+wo > rk+of+art,+as+I+said+a+moment+ago,+becomes+in+the+modernized+context+one+of+t > he+moments+of+arrested+development,+of+stasis+or+stillness,+which+seems+tempo > rarily+at+least+to+stay+the+hand+of+relentless+and+accelerating+revolution.%2 > 2&source=bl&ots=Pcga8UZCEw&sig=A-WA_7mIaEzj1rfyAJYP8qRLQcc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=SDY_ > UJ-hK-7VigLmhIHwDQ&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22The%20work%20of%20art%2C%20 > as%20I%22&f=false
