P3D MY Last comment on stereo base (or an excuse to digress)

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Gabriel Jacob wrote as his last comment on stereo base:

<<Some great musicians learn how to read music and some don't. At the
end it's all the same, it's whatever works for you. If you do learn
the rules, math, or formulas however, it's important to understand
how not to be bound by them. An example is all those abstract
paintings. Now it would seem that "anyone" can make 'em! ;-) These
masters of abstract are not painting flunkies (at least that is what
I have been told!). They have years of schooling and can paint
realistically if they wished to. They have learned the rules and then
set them all aside, or so it seems. Therefore, push them to the
envelope, or bend them to your advantage. They have their place and
can be good tools if you know when and how to use them and when and
how NOT to use them.>>

And it reminded me that I had a chance to meet Jack Naylor before leaving
Boston for Richmond. 

On one wall he has a series of 5 Lichtenstein abstracts. These are not in his
comic strip style but progress left to right from a realistic representation
of a cow through to a full abstract. Having noticed the progression, I had
been studying them on the wall and working out how the changes were worked in.
Jack asked me how far I could follow it, and I was happy to tell him that I
saw the whole set.

And now, back to the stereo!!! He also has a pair of paintings of his mother-
in-law by Andy Worhol. I understand that Paul Wing wants to photograph them
and put them together for stereoscopic viewing to see if the artist had
intended them to work in that way. Paul can free-view most things, but
apparently not these. So I had a go, cross eyed. And whilst there doesn't seem
to be any intrinsic 3-D (they are both made from the same photograph) there is
an illusion of depth due to the colours used.

Of course, whilst I was there, I had a look around the museum! 3000 square
feet of air conditioned display space filled with Daguerrotypes, cameras (even
stereo cameras :-)  ) etc etc. And this is his SECOND collection! He sold the
first to a Japanese museum...

Bob Aldridge   


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