As I see it, every thing under the sun has an essence, that is impossible to express. It is as evasive as the individuals that express it. It has the power within it's essence to reflect positive or negative feeling from each individual's personal expectations and values. Knowing that, i choose the female nude can express endless universal emotions , ideas, symbolisms as my objective.
mando On Dec 18, 2013, at 2:14 PM, [email protected] wrote: > In a message dated 12/18/13 12:19:01 PM, [email protected] writes: > > >> there was an >> attempt by the participants to broaden the terms to be all inclusive >> -rather than any attempt to narrow the term to the specifics of the >> context >> in which they were being addressed. Likewise I find this tendency among >> students as well - in that they would prefer the most vague usage of a >> term >> - rather than gain clarity >> > Agreed: It's effectively the murder of a word when it becomes used far > beyond its original borders -- 'obscene', 'awesome' (when I was young, I used > to > think of "awe" as the rarest of human feelings. The term 'holocaust' went > both ways: hundreds of years ago, it meant something burned completely. But > in the period after World War II, it became the term for the Nazi > extermination plan against the Jews -- often with a capital H. I became > accustomed > to that usage. When, as the second half of the century wore on, and the term > began to applied applied to any widespread destruction, I didn't like it. What > the Nazis did with their industrialized extermination was unique, and I felt > it should be branded with a unique name. > > The twentieth century expansion of the use of the term "the art of" has > often seemed to me to be blurring together efforts that should be kept > separate. > > But we also have to allow thinkers to discover when essentially the same > factor underlies seemingly separate activities. "Creativity" is not a gift > confined only to "the arts". There is a value -- albeit a somewhat fuzzy one > -- in recognizing that it can play a part in producing progress in, say, > science, math, and philosophy. And even in that seemingly anti-art area, > business.
