Posted on 04/18/2016 8:22:05 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Before the fall when they wrote it on the wall
When there wasn't even any Hollywood
They heard the call
And they wrote it on the wall
For you and me we understood
Steely Dan - The Caves of Altimira
“If it looks like I could have painted it, it ain’t art. “
Have you ever been to Modern Art Gallery?
Trust me, if you can paint Window frames you’re better with Paint than they are. (!)
I could never have painted the animals at Chauvet. They may seem crude to us, given later centuries of representational art; but they’re expressive and ‘kinetic’; lifelike; and the result of very careful observation. They also have an artistic cohesion that’s remarkable.
-JT
Thanks for posting.
If an artist needs to explain to me what his or her piece means, or stands for, or expresses, it ain't art. That aside, I agree. And I would get paint on the panes. My wife does the painting in the family. I'm only good for the hard to reach stuff, and spray paint.
lol!
My pleasure.
A lot of people try to say that he was just a morose guy, and that the statement about ‘selling-out’ was a product of that, depression, and unfulfilled idealism. I think he was telling the truth, whatever the cause.
Though I do like some of the ‘Blue Period’, I think he just couldn’t sustain or build upon the kind of work he did in ‘The Old Fisherman’; and decided to be fashionable, instead.
(Donning my asbestos suit, in case of Picasso-loving viewers ;-)
-JT
I like Rossetti; but my favorite of the PRB is Edward Burne-Jones; especially ‘Love and the Pilgrim’, and ‘Love Among the Ruins’.
-JT
Yes a period of approximately 2-3000 years each time. Thousands of years apart. Then aomething happened that covered the cave...something catastrophic perhaps. Perhaps man rises and falls over and over again in this planet. It’s a pet theory of mine based on the story “Nightfall” by Isaac Asimov.
I think you may be right, in a way. I haven’t read the book you reference, but maybe we’re just doing everything over and over again, in an ever upward, ever widening spiral.
-JT
It’s neat. In the book, the planet has two suns and every, say, 5000 years both suns line up with the single moon in a total eclipse. And this happens to a race that has never known dark. They go mad each time and destroy their civilization and it takes 5000 years to rebuild until the next eclipse.
Well, that’s not exactly what I was thinking of; but it sounds like a very interesting book :-)
-JT
Ok, now is it me or it strange I mention Guernica and here on the next day is an article including a mention of Guernica on FR?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3422669/posts
Danged lurkers. ;’)
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