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General Category => 3DHS => Topic started by: Plane on January 25, 2010, 10:31:00 PM

Title: It is what it is,
Post by: Plane on January 25, 2010, 10:31:00 PM

http://clicks.robertgenn.com/full-immersion.php (http://clicks.robertgenn.com/full-immersion.php)

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"...pastel instructor at Western Washington University circa 1984. One day, early in the semester during a painting session, I approached this gentleman's easel, and looking on, watching him work I innocently asked, "What is that?" He literally threw his pastel stick against the wall, gathered the class and explained, "In reality a piece of art is not a depiction of something else, it stands alone as a new creation. What is it? It is what it is, a painting judged without the need for comparison."
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Title: Re: It is what it is,
Post by: Kramer on January 25, 2010, 10:45:01 PM

Quote from: Plane on January 25, 2010, 10:31:00 PM

http://clicks.robertgenn.com/full-immersion.php (http://clicks.robertgenn.com/full-immersion.php)

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"...pastel instructor at Western Washington University circa 1984. One day, early in the semester during a painting session, I approached this gentleman's easel, and looking on, watching him work I innocently asked, "What is that?" He literally threw his pastel stick against the wall, gathered the class and explained, "In reality a piece of art is not a depiction of something else, it stands alone as a new creation. What is it? It is what it is, a painting judged without the need for comparison."
"

then it must be called "IS"