Platt, I agree. It takes gumption and insight, not all given the opportunity he had would change perception the way he did, but, one has to take into account the society that is able to recognize it and exhault it. Artists are little more than street bums without someones patronage. I guess what I'm saying is that it takes an appreciation along with indiviual talent to make Art. -Ron
________________________________ From: Platt Holden <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 10:33:01 AM Subject: Re: [MD] Indiviidual Achievers [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/ 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/
