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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
do things in themselves exist in nature, or only in the realm of man-made objects? i mean, "ethiopia" is whatever we want it to be, but how is adam's ass an ass in itself? where does it begin and where does it end? in concept, yeah-- but is there a real correlate to the concept that exists independently of its formulation? just saying...
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Thursday of last week, I went to the first real class of my Modern and Contemprary Art class which takes place at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. There, we were given an introduction of material we would cover in class as well as a gallery walkthrough sample of the eras covered. During it, we past a work by Piet Mondrian. While normally Mondrian bores me with lines and colored blocks, the teacher caught me by saying that the particular piece was a study of the distance on the canvas in which the blue color and the yellow color were or were not related.
There was a second paragraph here to strike at my point but I feel like I was being too obvious, or maybe to esoteric. But it is simply that the colors are not related, even side by side. We relate them. Where anything beings and anything ends are lines in sand there to allow us to move amongst what is, outside our highways and byways of cognitive activity, a single indescribable thing.