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During the lesson this process was illustrated by a series of variations on ‘Unexpected Visitors’ by Ilia Repin where people replaced the figures in the painting by others therefore changing the original meaning of the painting and the figures who appeared in this new framework. At the same time the frame will transform because of its new content:
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- Mood:
cold
All that can fly can symbolize the soul and/or play the role of a mediator, a messenger from god, heaven or an otherwise unreachable place for the earthbound creatures of the human race. In the Greek mythology this role is played by Hermes. In Norse mythology Odin’s raven pare bring him information, and angels and the dove fulfill this role in Christian faith. Other examples of the special place that winged creatures take in mythology are the tales about the phoenix, the pelican, the cock and the dragon.
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- Mood:
tired
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This, to me, is not a painting.
When I look at it I do not notice the warm colours so typical for Vermeer; The way the artist captures the look of the viewer by placing the vanishing point just in front of Cleo (the muse of history), the brilliant way he constructs perspective. I do not particularly admire the way in which this two-dimensional picture manages to create the illusion of reality or how Vermeer makes it appear as if we can step right in to the world captured in this frame. Neither do I contemplate what meaning it might have.
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- Mood:
cheerful
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- Location:Tartu
- Mood: amused
- Music:my brightest diamond
“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.”If you put these two thoughts together you create a quite peculiar view on the world.
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- Mood:
okay - Music:Agnes Obel
What is art?
How can you define it? This question was the start of the very first lecture about art semiotics and at the first glance it seems an easy one: the Mona Lisa, David of Michelangelo, the fountain by Marcel Duchamp or Guernica by Picasso would be some notable examples of what art is, or can be.
When I googled the term ‘kunst’ the following images appeared:
So this is art! The Mona Lisa, David of Michelangelo, the fountain by Marcel Duchamp or Guernica by Picasso, etc. But when you actually think about it these examples tell you nothing because what is it that they actually have in common (except for the fact that they are all labeled as art). What makes them art?
I think we will never find a completely satisfying answer to this question because the idea of what art is, is not static. The characteristics that determine whether some object is or isn’t art change over time. They aren’t inherent to art itself. Even the ‘artworld’ itself has never found an acceptable answer, there is even art that reflects on the nature of art!
Since so many brilliant people have thought on it without coming to an satisfactory conclusion I think that for the present I will decide for myself what I think is art and what is not.
And although I could not explain why. I consider all the following images all examples of art:
Maybe you can find the one thing that they have in common and what transforms them into art because I can't.
- Mood: amused
