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It's so memorable, probably why it stick in my memory: how can you have a canvas without a wall? The wall is the canvas. Yet the wall simultaneously constrains
by publicdebates 9mo ago
It's so memorable, probably why it stick in my memory: how can you have a canvas without a wall? The wall is the canvas. Yet the wall simultaneously constrains the canvas, thus allowing it to become the canvas, to become worthy of a canvas. This French idiom says so much without saying practically anything.
- dxdm 9mo agoComing back at this with a fresh mind, whoever said it could also have meant that every painting should be displayed: it requires a wall to hang on. As you say, it's not immediately clear what is meant.
- publicdebates 9mo agoEven more evidence of how versatile that French phrase is. There's just so many acceptable meanings to it, and every one of them points to the same conclusion: bounds enable art.