On Aug 30, 2012, at 4:19 PM, joseph berg <[email protected]> wrote: > - Perhaps the sketch of a work is so pleasing because everyone can finish > it as he chooses.
No representation is "finished" because no representation is equal to the thing it represents. Representations are maps of smaller things onto larger things, and the fullness of the natural object cannot be matched by the representation, so that in the most "finished" looking painting, such as those incredible Flemish paintings of food and fowl or the hyperrealistic paintings of the 80s, there is so much that they are incapable of representing, just as the briefest Rodin drawing of Balinese dancers, that the viewer will not exhaust the possibilities. Note to Cheerskep: I am, of course, thinking of the way the viewer recognizes his own perceptions of the painted subject and correlates it, in his mind, with memories of the original--or even with the actual model if it's still present. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Michael Brady
