Decisions
Miles McAlinden - Bell, Book and Candle
artwork

Stripe
1999
acrylic & pencil on canvas
70 x 90cm

Signs
1999
acrylic & chalk on canvas
70 x 75cm

Signs II
variation

Blue
2000
acrylic on carved plywood
3 - 10 x 10cm
While text is a language, images and objects beg the question that they are a language in the conventional interpretation of the word.
Artworks are quite different from their photograph.
Manet took the past and showed it in modern dress and undress. Accepted norms and values were attacked, criticised and devalued. His work was attacked, of course, as being unacceptable art, ‘immoral’ and in ‘bad taste’, as it obviously was. But the understanding of art had been changed forever.
When the past is read chronologically it tells a different story than when read comparatively. Shall we interpret the past in order to find a salient truth or are we to use history to give credence to our contemporary opinion?
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