Shay wrote:
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> At the very high risk of making a fool of myself compared to some of the
> more artistically aware people here like Jim and Gilles, 

Well I make a fool of myself here quite often.  But I like to think I am 
enthusiastic :)

I will offer
> that I feel I'm at least in the ballpark when saying that abstraction is
> an attempt to capture the essence or an essence of mundane things
> whereas surrealism is an attempt to capture the perceptions and
> "awareness" of states of mind where things are perceived which are in
> opposition to mundane reality. How recognizable you feel the objects are
> in the picture is of no relevance.
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>  

I think you could take that argument quite far.


-Jim

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