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Susie W. Jones's avatar

Hey, would definitely buy the red buildings as a piece of art. We went to the Dali Museum while in St. Petersburg, also the MOFA. Bought two Dali shirts and seriously coveted a pietre dure piece at the MOFA. Turned out, the pietre dure piece was sitting outside in the Florida weather for many years till some scholars pointed out that was indeed NOT a tabletop but a Medici commissioned piece from the 17th century.

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This works in the visual arts as well as in music.

 There is nothing more concrete and defined than a painting exhibited in a museum.

The artist's concept was expressed by him and is evident to everyone. The author has already held a conference, where he explained in detail, every millimeter of the canvas, what he meant exactly and which historical, religious, naturalistic or pure fantasy concept inspired him.

..…But….There are always people who did not attend the conference (one could say “Aaaa..Yes… We know those who do not follow the events and know nothing about Greek mythology”)…

And well..???…We are all spectators…

The people who attended the conference, as well as those who didn't attend it, are perhaps subjected at this precise moment to the joyful or perhaps sad events of their lives. Everyone with their own vision of the world will inevitably create their own story of that painting. May be, it won't change the general concept, but it will add something of it. Then, we all go home, study thoroughly what we have seen, change our minds.

But … history has already been created and the judgment has already been formed and has the right to exist and fits perfectly into the philosophical concept: "Critical judgment - it is already a historical judgment."

The painter-author of the painting would be very surprised if he could know at least in part those new stories that everyone added to his painting about him. These stories have a right to exist. The battles between critics about what is more right and what the painter wanted to say are useless. The stories of each of us in that painting have the right to exist, to live their own lives. "Critical judgment is already a historical judgment".

P.S. “The spaces between things humanize. As soon as we've got gaps to live in, we feel more at home, and more ourselves. Who knows, maybe time itself works that way too. An endless series of moments, and it's only us who turn them into reality.." Bello…

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