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In reply to the discussion: Welcome to the Friday Afternoon Challenge! My humble offering today: The Pose of the Art! [View all]frazzled
(18,402 posts)come to replace, in people's minds, the experience of seeing works of art in person (cf. Google Art Project). Come to think of it, that goes for music, too. And other things. (Even "talking" on the Internet, which is very different from having a conversation in real life!)
We live in a world of simulacra of simulacra, and sometimes we have to remember that the lived phenomenological encounter is still the most potent form of experience. I was talking to a painter at Thanksgiving dinner, and we were discussing this very issue about reproductions of paintings: people think they are very tiny! or that the colors they are seeing are the same as those used in the actual work; or that texture or light are not elements. I'm grateful for books and reproductions, but you can get led very astray by them.
I'm glad you got to see that beautiful glistening light. I can only imagine Senor Dalì dropping to his knees upon witnessing it.