This is young Peter (age 6) illustrating a couple of categories. I'll be drawing the visual into our Eliot/Joyce/Kafka discussion today. It occurs to me that I might bring Kafka's words on Picasso in as well. Is Picasso a "wilful distortionist?" someone asked him. Kafka: “I do not think so...He only registers the deformities which have not yet penetrated our consciousness. Art is a mirror, which goes 'fast,' like a watch--sometimes.”
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yeah. Like a watch--sometimes.
And Peter, age 6! I love the paper designs!
Peter's got the get fresh flow!
Love the drawings! It's pretty interesting to see a child's concept of people, and God grow increasingly abstract as they mature. I've been working on a study this semester averaging questions asked by children to God or about God, and as they grow older, God becomes less of an anthropomorphic figure and steadily merges into this abstract, distant deity.
Abstract and (heh-heh) more biblical, I want to say.
Glad to hear from you, Brother Taylor.
Please find two related references which give a unique perspective on this most important topic. That is the relation between art and culture - especially Sacred Art
www.adidaupclose.org/Literature_Theater/skalsky.html
www.adidaupclose.org/Art_and_Photography/rebirth_of_sacred_art.html
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