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that it captures the absolute essence of the creature in as concise an image as possible No, it doesn't. It looks like crap. A bull without the massive bullhea

that it captures the absolute essence of the creature in as concise an image as possible No, it doesn't. It looks like crap. A bull without the massive bullhead is no longer a bull, but some freaky artist's conceit attached to a declaration, "This is a bull." The fact that he changed the pene so wildly between pictures is a hint that he's playing a joke on us. Here are some superior, simple bull pictures: http://www.doublevisionarts.com/images/Boxenbaum/Bull%20series%20drawing%203.gif http://www.doublevisionarts.com/images/Boxenbaum/Bull%20seri... http://www.kshdevelopment.com/DaliPictures/Dali's%20Bullfight%20Num%203.jpg http://www.kshdevelopment.com/DaliPictures/Dali's%20Bullfigh...

wheels 18y ago
You're reading the commentator back into the artist. When I see the series I see it as a commentary on reductionism with an element of humor and absurdity. A lot of times people get so caught up in the pretension associated with "serious" art that they ignore that it's often supposed to be funny. I remember getting scowled at once at the symphony for laughing at loud at a certain point that was (for the musically inclined) obviously a joke.
- lsb 18y ago
  Verdi Spoiler Alert In Verdi's Simon Boccanegra at Covent Garden this past spring, Fiesco says "Simone, I morti ti salutano!" -- "Simon, the [previously-thought] dead salute you!". To the classically minded, it's a riff on the gladitorial salute to the Roman emperor "Nos te morituri te salutant" -- we who are about to die salute you. Takeaway lesson: only date people who laugh as much at Latin jokes as you do.
olavk 18y ago
The point here is the process of reduction. To compare this sequence with any single (however pretty) finished picture is missing the point. He is not "playing a joke on you", he is having fun with exploring the process of perception and the steps from illustration to symbol.

wheels 18y ago

You're reading the commentator back into the artist. When I see the series I see it as a commentary on reductionism with an element of humor and absurdity. A lot of times people get so caught up in the pretension associated with "serious" art that they ignore that it's often supposed to be funny. I remember getting scowled at once at the symphony for laughing at loud at a certain point that was (for the musically inclined) obviously a joke.

lsb 18y ago
Verdi Spoiler Alert In Verdi's Simon Boccanegra at Covent Garden this past spring, Fiesco says "Simone, I morti ti salutano!" -- "Simon, the [previously-thought] dead salute you!". To the classically minded, it's a riff on the gladitorial salute to the Roman emperor "Nos te morituri te salutant" -- we who are about to die salute you. Takeaway lesson: only date people who laugh as much at Latin jokes as you do.

olavk 18y ago

The point here is the process of reduction. To compare this sequence with any single (however pretty) finished picture is missing the point. He is not "playing a joke on you", he is having fun with exploring the process of perception and the steps from illustration to symbol.