> For figurative art I suspect icons are wasted on the agnostic for the same > reason. :-)
Yup. I recently watched A Serious Man directed by the Coen brothers and I was completely mystified by it. I thought it was the most obtuse and disappointing Coen movie I'd seen. People did completely random things and behaved very oddly, and it seemed to end right in the middle of an action scene. Later I read that it is supposed to be a clever retelling of the Book of Job from the Bible. Oh yeah? Who dat? :-) One of those movies that should have had a warning label with pre-requisite knowledge on it to save folks like me from bothering. On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Alunfoto - Jostein Øksne <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the link, Bruce. :-) > > What I miss from such explanations is the importance of culture as a > backdrop to understand art. This one take a step i that direction when > mentioning that one might start to understand the visual language of the > particular artist after seeing twenty or so works. > > My favourite personal example of cultural (or historical) knowledge is > "Guernica" by Picasso. I saw that image first time as a teenager, before I'd > heard anything of the Spanish Civil War. It didn't make much sense until I > looked up the title in an encyclopedia. > > For figurative art I suspect icons are wasted on the agnostic for the same > reason. :-) > > Jostein > > -----Opprinnelig melding----- From: Bruce Walker > Sent: Monday, June 16, 2014 8:18 PM > To: Pentax Discuss Mailing List > Subject: OT - A guide to reading abstract art > > > This may or may not help ... > > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/13/abstract-art_n_5486273.html > > -- > -bmw > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
