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From: Pussy Golant Category: Art Date: 01 October 2009 Time: 08:59 AM Review: "I think that the idea that a painter must only say what they say feel in a painting is extremely reductive." Peub shanan a waytyas yth ewnsa ev y gammwrians, there are many definitions of intelligence, the one in which two opposing ideas are held simultaneously may need a less generic term with which to "illustrate" this view. The capacity to reason may define a type of intelligence but this butters the slightest of pasties. Abstract comprehension may include many juxtaposed concepts but these cannot be verifiable absolutes other than bearing the hallmark of Absolute Generality expressed in terms such as creativity, personality, character, knowledge or wisdom. Intelligence of a Unilinear Construct and that which is based on Multiple Intelligence have attemped to stroke the pussycat of persuasion, the Grotowskian Clowns have fiddled around with the French average of numerous dissimilar abilities, rather than a unitary entity with specific identifiable properties, Howard "schitzo" Gardner's theory of multiple intelligence; Pan entrir dhe'n drehevyans y hwelir imajow a-hys an fos (Las Meninas 1656) yn-dann an fenestri. Thus the paradox between the image and the experience, adaptability to a new environment or changes to the immediate sorroundings, capacity for knowledge and ability for the aquisition thereof, capacity to reason and abstract thought, to comprehend relationships, evaluate and judge or a capacity for original and productive thought ie Lying. To base a contemporary value on historical artifactual evidence,( especially the enigmatic The Maids of Honour by Diego Velázquez 1656 is probably one of the most exaustively analysed works of western painting, a particular pop-up in A-Level discourse), is to compare the courtly view in the mid sixteen hundreds art patronage with the "suck up, kick down" twilight capitalists who hang on the shirt tails of the Murdoch's and other individuals with the properties of a corporation ie strong in the arm, weak in the heart, "Do I think that the idea that a painter must only say feel in a painting is extremely reductive ?", the honest answer is that there is'nt one -