"Brilliant!"- my reaction to a painting
After writing 365 posts I organized them by topic and produced a book. By making small daily investments I created a whole that is better than the pieces. But the pieces still exist and contribute.
A week or so ago I walked into a gallery in Florida(one of my favorite things to do while on vacation) and saw a bunch of black and white large photographs. So what?
Imagine a picture of Steve Jobs' book cover that has been divided in 500 boxes across(pixels) and maybe 1000 pixels vertical. Someone then using image processing determined a number between 0(solid white) to 255(solid black) to represent the darkness level of each pixel.
That by itself is OK but what makes it brilliant is that they then took a classical masterpiece painting(Mona Lisa by Da Vinci, something by Rembrandt etc.) and replaced that pixel with that image at that darkness level.
So from far away you see the original work and you are not impressed BUT when you get closer you see the sub-image appear.
Today's question is:
"Can a sub-part of your work be a masterpiece?"
After writing 365 posts I organized them by topic and produced a book. By making small daily investments I created a whole that is better than the pieces. But the pieces still exist and contribute.
A week or so ago I walked into a gallery in Florida(one of my favorite things to do while on vacation) and saw a bunch of black and white large photographs. So what?
Imagine a picture of Steve Jobs' book cover that has been divided in 500 boxes across(pixels) and maybe 1000 pixels vertical. Someone then using image processing determined a number between 0(solid white) to 255(solid black) to represent the darkness level of each pixel.
That by itself is OK but what makes it brilliant is that they then took a classical masterpiece painting(Mona Lisa by Da Vinci, something by Rembrandt etc.) and replaced that pixel with that image at that darkness level.
So from far away you see the original work and you are not impressed BUT when you get closer you see the sub-image appear.
Today's question is:
"Can a sub-part of your work be a masterpiece?"
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