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http://mirroruptolife.blogspot.com/2007/09/lights-lights.html There's an unintentional personal joke in there for Mirror, but it's an interesting discussion. "Art is a man's name," as Warhol allegedly said. As I said in my comments, "but I like Duchamp" and I don't like Rothko, and I'm not so fond of Pollack, but I'm way ahead of my mother who can only appreciate representational art. Is this artist, Martin Creed, laughing all the way to the bank (as my parents used to say), or is he on to something. He does seem to have an odd vision of all the canvases and statues stacked up and taking up space. Theater art for instance is about both what is there and what isn't there. Negative space to use the general term, which can mean both the white or empty space on a canvas, or the literal empty space on stage where there are n actors or set. This is then the ultimate piece of negative space with no "positive space" to surround it ...

(NOTE: I started this sometime ago and didn't finish it until now) So, as I mentioned in the dream post, I went to see the Edward Hopper exhibit with my now former boss DS . As we were walking in, I asked, "Do you like Hopper." And she said, "I don't know his work." I think I gaped at her--how do you grow up in America, esp. being her age (65) and not know the works of Edward Hopper? I said, "I think you'll recognize the paintings once you see them. When we approached Nighthawks, arguably Hopper's most famous work, I said, "You have to have seen this--or at least a parody." "Nope," she said. Now, Nighthawks has been reproduced so many times that I'm a little sick of it. There's the one with James Dean and Marilyn: And doing a quick search, CSI , the Simpsons and Inuyasha and Edward Elric . Also, I'm told, one with characters from Cowboy BeBop , and many others I didn't copy. In addition, many others of Hoppe...