Forget dancing figures, forget portraits of Lenin in the style of. Go and dust off your Foucault: Pollock's paintings are actually calligrams:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/Decoding-Jackson-Pollock.html Look at the top of the painting and you'll see "No Symbol", look at the bottom and you'll see "Piss Artist". Or you may see something else entirely. That's the problem with human visual perception, it's inherently apophenic. I'm looking at this Kandinsky now and it totally says "Bosom" at the top, but I can't quite out make the bottom yet - http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/kandinsky/kandinsky.comp-9.jpg - Rob. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
