Beerina
Sarcastic Conqueror of Notions
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So people draw a cube (with a triangle next to it, for that matter), which is essentially their version of the old trickster's psychic drawing of a "house", with tree and sidewalk.
Of course, they couldn't literally draw a definitive house, given that probably would not be the subject of an artist's painting (Thomas Kincaid aside) but you can see how wildly they tried to stretch things after the fact. Yet note how it would fit just about any painting of a landscape, as long as it had at least one building (and pine tree?) in it*.
If you could "remove view" the wave, and knew enough to see it was water and a wave/explosion wouldn't you draw a picture that was a hell of a lot more accurate**?
Are we to interpret that they only see hazy images, the way psychics can only hear a "c" sound coming out the mouth of a ghost, rather than a long, clear diatribe on the poor quality of afterlife toilet paper?
* It occurs to me the artist should be insulted the "psychics" thought so little of her creativity that she'd be most likely to paint a vapid home scene.
** It's also not lost on me the second picture is a circle, when a circular "cat" face is also a common picture people draw, at least in England. I wonder if the foolery isn't running two ways here. House (square), face (circle), stick figure (person or tree, esp. winter or sculpture or even a face painting "person is person is person picture"). That covers an awful lot of subjects in painting.
Of course, they couldn't literally draw a definitive house, given that probably would not be the subject of an artist's painting (Thomas Kincaid aside) but you can see how wildly they tried to stretch things after the fact. Yet note how it would fit just about any painting of a landscape, as long as it had at least one building (and pine tree?) in it*.
If you could "remove view" the wave, and knew enough to see it was water and a wave/explosion wouldn't you draw a picture that was a hell of a lot more accurate**?
Are we to interpret that they only see hazy images, the way psychics can only hear a "c" sound coming out the mouth of a ghost, rather than a long, clear diatribe on the poor quality of afterlife toilet paper?
* It occurs to me the artist should be insulted the "psychics" thought so little of her creativity that she'd be most likely to paint a vapid home scene.
** It's also not lost on me the second picture is a circle, when a circular "cat" face is also a common picture people draw, at least in England. I wonder if the foolery isn't running two ways here. House (square), face (circle), stick figure (person or tree, esp. winter or sculpture or even a face painting "person is person is person picture"). That covers an awful lot of subjects in painting.
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