My Bloody Sunday 1972 | 25 comments (25 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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Neither was there a bloody banner of "Civil rights". Art does not portray events as they were, it attempts to show what they mean.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Wed Jun 16th, 2010 at 07:01:04 AM EST
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Re: My Bloody Sunday 1972 (4.00 / 2)

Helen:

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

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Wed Jun 16th, 2010 at 10:10:23 AM EST
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It is original, but it seems that ceebs has blown some of my "meaning" out of the water.

Picasso's version is waaaay better

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Wed Jun 16th, 2010 at 01:14:51 PM EST
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Re: My Bloody Sunday 1972 (4.00 / 2)

My version would put experience instead of meaning. "Art does not portray events as they were, but as they were experienced".

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

by Sven Triloqvist on Wed Jun 16th, 2010 at 02:16:36 PM EST
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Sven Triloqvist:

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!

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Wed Jun 16th, 2010 at 07:05:44 PM EST
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