[Ron] > "His father, Louis-Auguste Cézanne (28 July 1798 - 23 October 1886),[3] > was the cofounder of a banking firm that prospered throughout the artist's > life, affording him financial security that was unavailable to most of his > contemporaries and eventually resulting in a large inheritance."-wiki > > Paul was not a lone individual. All depends on how one views a "free > lunch". No one is a "lone individual" in the sense he doesn't have a family and friends. But Cezanne, like many others who have achieved great things, changed the world with his individual mind, heart, initiative, insight, energy, creativity, ingenuity perseverance and skill -- and openness to the creative force of DQ..
> ________________________________ > From: Platt Holden <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, April 9, 2009 3:02:56 PM > Subject: [MD] Indiviidual Achievers > > All: > > Pirsig´s focus on the importance of the individual in responding to > Dynamic > Quality is evident throughout his writings, perhaps most eloquently > expressed in Lila, Chap. 29: > > "That's what drives the really creative people-the artists, composers, > revolutionaries and the like-the feeling that if they don't break out of > this jailhouse somebody has built around them, they're going to die. > "But they're not being contrary in a way that is just decadent. They're > way > too energetic and aggressive to be decadent. They're fighting for some > kind > of Dynamic freedom from the static patterns. But the Dynamic freedom > they're fitting for is a kind of morality too. And it's a highly important > part of the overall moral process. It´s often confused with degeneracy > but > it´s actually a form of moral regeneration. Without its continual > refreshment static patterns would simply die of old age." > > I was reminded of this passage this morning while reading a Wall St. > Journal article about Paul Cezanne that begins: > > "For many modern artists Paul Cezanne was a talismanic figure, the shadow > of his painting as impossible to escape as his achievement was to define. > Throughout the 20th century, as scholars labored to construct a viable > history of modern art, Cezanne (along with Manet, Courbet and a handful of > transgressive others) was posited as its fountainhead, the protean > begetter > whose countless progeny shaped a new aesthetic that placed vision and > touch > above formal and narrative concerns." > > Besides illustrating a human being´s response to Dynamic Quality, Cezanne > almost single handily rescued painting from static boredom and eventual > deterioration. That´s what the great individual achievers do, whether a > Paul Cezanne or a Niels Bohr. In pursuing the Conceptually Unknown in > response to DQ they lift all the rest of us to new levels of freedom, > versatility and beauty, revealing the creative force of DQ in the > process. > > Platt Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
