"Jim Charter" <jrc### [at] msncom> schreef in bericht
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> >
> > I am in doubt.
> > This scene is built up with two spheres and two cubes (and two lights),
so
> > it might be called minimalistic. But then every painting made with one
brush
> > could be called minimalistic.
>
> Great line!  Of course there *are* those Robert Ryman paintings based on
> different brush sizes.

Sure! I wanted to create the mood by a first *principle* statement :-)

>
> I know I should not compare POV scenes with
> > traditional painting, though.
>
> Why not?

Ah! Maybe my second statement. In the essence, there is no difference, as
only the end result counts. However, I feel that a *new* medium needs a
*new* development. Look at photography. In the early days, to show that it
was also an artistic medium in its own right, it was used for scenes
reproducing paintings. Later it evolved into its own artistic domain.
I feel that the same might be true for POV and related work. Don't
understand me wrong, I think that taking up the thread at the exact spot
where painting stopped, is a valid concept. But isn't it the star of a new
direction? Difficult to say, I am afraid... <sigh>

>
> > The central concept is fairly minimal, but it breaks-down gradually into
the
> > background (down the entropy slope), and what the eyes see is more
something
> > abstract expressionistic I believe.
> > Still, my little toe tells me that ... blah blah blah....
> >
>
> Well there is minimalist taste,...
> then there was the minimalists themes
> http://www.robertsmithson.com/essays/entropy_and.htm

I shall have to study this more. Thanks for the link. Much to do!!

Thomas

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