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Stephen McAvoy wrote:
> This goes down the old "we see what we expect to see" road, which is
> fascinating.
All it takes for me, is that I get "turned around" in my sense of
directions. Suddenly an environment I am used to "looks totally
strange". Yesterday I was walking around a park here called Marcus
Garvey Gardens. It lies directly across 5th Avenue. The avenue just
stops at one side then continues again on the other side. I was on the
north side of the park where 5th abutts but I *thought* I was on the
south side. Total disorientation.
IMHO Huxley (A) was on the right path when he said that
> the mind is a reducing valve to the universe. It enables us to have an
> understandable view of it.
I loved Huxley's writings on art. I especially liked the line that went
something like: "If religion is the opiate of the masses, then surely
draperies are the opiate of painters". Loved his discussion of the late
work of Goya.
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>>I assume you are aware of this:
>>http://www.koopfilms.com/hockney/
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> I saw it when it was first broadcast in the UK. Hence the mention of
> the camera obscura.
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I haven't seen the program. I happened to read a bit about it recently,
just what I could find on the web, but I didn't really dig in. Put it
off to later then lost the link. I think it is pretty interesting
though. I had been trying turn up anything I could on the subject of
Vermeer, and/or the Dutch painting of his time, and mirrors, in the hope
that I could make some connections vis-a-vis Rene Bui's entry in POVCOMP.
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