So the artistic licence invoked by the mural painter doesn't quite work for me either way - there was no one with a gun standing to provide cover for the wounded - and the attempt to use the mural to show a paratrooper stamping on civil rights ends up giving a misleading impression that he was standing with the civilians.
I will amend the diary to avoid further confusion. Index of Frank's Diaries
Art does not portray events as they were, it attempts to show what they mean.
i really like that aphorism. is it original?
it reminds me of picasso's 'art is the lie which tells the truth'
very pithy, thanks ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
Picasso's version is waaaay better keep to the Fen Causeway
Although many of the artists I know would not recognize that statement, because they do not work from identifiable events, but from presences.
Another version, closer to my own view, is that all art exploits bugs in the human system, basically within the brain (which includes the optic system). And the biggest bug is in thinking that experience 'makes sense' - that is it has meaning. You can't be me, I'm taken
And the biggest bug is in thinking that experience 'makes sense' - that is it has meaning.
um, that's a feature.
your homunculus is out to play... get him back in his box, quick! ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
