Wednesday, 17 December 2008
Cubism
Yes, indeed Cubism is considered the final liberation of painting from accepted traditional values. Its strange sense of space, which rejects any attempt to create an illusion of the real world and yes, several views of a single figure are combined in one image, that sort of thing. But I still fail to understand what you mean by " democratic " since art on the whole, is democratic in the sense that everyone can see it and appreciate it or hate it and unlike a book which needs to be translated if its written in Chinese, a painting has a direct message to the viewer.
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Well Maria, I suppose the kind of thing I'm thinking of is analogous to the TV programmes or films where viewers vote on their favourite ending, deciding whether to have a happy or a sad ending, who did the murder, etc. The nearest thing I can think of with art would be those fuzzy paintings where the viewer is supposed to "see" whatever he wants to see.
In other words, instead of the artist saying to the viewer "look at what I will show you" it's more a case of "make of this what you will." I prefer it when things have a definite meaning.
Surrealist paintings can do that Robert. I only did one surrealist painting in my life and the interpretations and meanings people gave to it, amused me endlessly. They were all different according to their wishes and desires. I did not know what it meant, as it was just a dream, irracional as some dreams can be. As a matter of fact, the painting was stolen in California. Peter had it in his office and a man he worked with, refused to give him my painting. The name of the thief is David Franklin from Equity Title. I wish he had at least paid me something for it, but he didn't, he just kept it.
Blimey!
You know the bank money that gets stained with purple dye if someone steals it? Rothko's paintings should be protected like that - they're purple to start with, so no harm done.
Robert, I'm not a writer so I am just going to venture an idea here, doesn't Agatha Christie for example gives a choice to her readers by employing clues who could be the murderer ? She does not leave it open, as she ends with a definite conclusion. Maybe subconsciously, you are thinking about Jack the Ripper where these murders were left unsolved
Maria, I can't remember what I did mean now. Never mind.
Robert, I once read that a "who done it" nobelist said that people have the need to tie a knot or arrive at a definite conclusion in a murder mystery, she said it upsets the psychic or the minds of people, to leave the mystery unresolved, as there is that element inside all of us, of imparting justice and this is what a mystery story does, by in the end, arriving at a definite conclusion a knot, to put it at rest in our minds.
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