There is a story of people working all day and those who join for the last hour all getting the same pay. It is all told by Jesus, and He allows one of the employed to disagree with Him. Jesus asks him the question: “Didn’t you agree to your pay before you started, my friend? Take what we agreed on, I will give to the last what I gave to you.”
Jesus asks two more questions and makes a conclusion. Here they are:
Is it against the law to do what I like with what I own?
Is your understanding evil because I am good?
So the last will be first, and the first last: for many are called, but few chosen.
Matthew 20: 1-16 (Sandy’s summary)
on 1 April.
It was a pleasure to watch Easter passing with the opening of a vase of daffidols. I have appreciated the waiting through photography and painting. Here is my experience:
The texture of the petals seems more obvious when not part of the whole.
I then decided to paint and look more closely at the opening flowers influenced by a post I read.
A blogger has looked at abstract art, and I appreciate what was said. These two quotes made me smile at myself
It takes considerable knowledge just to realise the extent of your own ignorance.
Thomas Sowell (1930-1958 An American economist, social philosopher, and political commentator.)
And…
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
Mark Twain
Salvador Dali then said:” We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.”
I looked at the vase of flowers and painted a reduced form. The number of open daffidols 11 then three closed with leaves and thought of what I was doing, and here it is.
There is also a more serious quote where abstract art is not what I have just done. Here it is:
What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles… It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations.
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Is this possibly taking from an older, more established time refined art and placing its beauty in a present context?
I am just thinking…
Take care and have a pleasant day.
Sandy 🙂