Marsha said: Greetings DMB, I believe there are in existence sculptures of Parmenides. The more interesting question 'what would a modern-day Parmenides look like?'
dmb says: He'd look like Buddha or maybe like my Orpheus as a rock star, only older? I guess the idea is that some of the first abstract painters were interested in evoking "spiritual" realities rather than rendering objects or otherwise representing normal reality. You know, there is something about the aesthetics of objectless abstraction that lends itself to mystical no-thing-ness. This presents a very difficult problem. I guess painting the ineffable isn't any easier than describing it in words. I guess there is no solution to this problem among the existing options and so one has to be created or invented. I guess sensitivity, skill, luck and just a bit of genius woud be required. And as you can see, this is about rendering Parmenides' notion of the One rather than a likeness of his person. _________________________________________________________________ Interest Rates near 39yr lows! $430,000 Mortgage for $1,399/mo - Calculate new payment http://www.lowermybills.com/lre/index.jsp?sourceid=lmb-9632-18466&moid=7581 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/
