Jim Charter <jrc### [at] msncom> wrote:
> Stephen wrote:
>
> >

> > the way genteel folk in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries would record their
> > world in water colours?
>
> A fairly pure example of how I am using "mimetic" would be the painter
> Lucien Freud.

At this point, I make my excuses and leave. I find Lucien Freud too
unpleasing to my eye. Although there are similarities to Stanley Spencer,
an artist I like. Especially his war work.


evaluate the seemingly pretentious claptrap that assaults my ears. Not that
I mean you or anyone here. In fact I thank you for enlightening me. {Oh!





> >
> >
> "record their world"  That starts to get at it, doesn't it?  Precisely
> what "world" is Rene depicting?



Stephen

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