-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Sun, Jan 30, 2011 3:59 pm Subject: Re: representation
One object may REMIND you (and some others) of another object, (but it may not similarly remind me), but this alleged "representing" is no more of an entity -- This object- a piece oof representational art- had better damn well remind you of another object,that's its job. It has no excuse for existing other than to represent something not present. It would be interesting to try and find the assumptions at various times about representational art. Conger doesn't feel that its province includes dragons,Titian did. Seurat thought dots could produce a reasonable facsimile, which they did, but he is still alone in using them. What's up with that,why all the smooth brush strokes? What concept of countryside helps to produce all those landscapes and how did it change? Why weren't there more pictures of cities,what about those market pictures of the Dutch and why didn't anyone else do them-I could go on. Kate Sullivan
