In a message dated 9/2/00 12:40:29 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<<So this is abstract? Compared to what?>>
I think, Aaron, that to someone who thinks in binary terms (black and white),
all the the greys and colors in-between are abstract (to them). It's simply a
color-blindness of a sort. Sometimes it's simply a matter of being young...
perhaps not just in age. It may be the emotional immaturity that seems to
characterize much of our culture that conditions people to be impatient. It
takes a lot of patience to learn to see all the 'colors'. (And there are some
colors that our physical eyes cannot apprehend, but our minds do, and thus we
have dreams in colors we cannot describe upon waking.)
But before we can learn to see, we need to learn how to look. That was
actually the subject of the first lecture I had in art school. But only the
introduction to the subject, which was renewed with every instructor in every
course. The college no longer exists, and I suspect that art is no longer
taught in this fashion. Fashions change...
with the times.
If we looked at our times, and our century with a long lens, we could realize
how great the changes have been in our lifetimes, more so than in those of
our parents (who marvelled at changes, themselves). And how unprepared all of
us have been for the changes of our own causing...and the results, bringing
yet more change.
Truly the only constant. Impatience is unnecessary; it mainly serves to blur
the vision.
Joan
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