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In the Thread: It takes balls to shop (never mind the nuts)
Post Subject: aura of artPosted by yoshi on: 12/27/2006
Rene Magritte is a famous surealism painter. His images are reproduced in many publications, books of his works, museum catalogs, even used in some advertisements. I suppose most of you are familiar with at least a couple of his works.
http://www.magritte.be/
With his works, you can probably get the superficial idea of the work through reproductions, but it's only the surface of the story. His originals are created with very subtle manipurations of the texture with very, very dry, completely matt finish. Through this extreme finishing touch, you feel the fear, the wonder, the air the artist breathed, and yes, his vision. In the reproduction of grossy printing, all this content is lost and only a playful image remains.
On the other hand, Jasper Johns' works are more dependent to the image (or the elements of images) itself and his intent comes through more clearly in his prints or, sometimes, in the reproductions. I feel the material-ness of his originals creates conflicts with the content in many of his works.
When young Celibidache asked Fultwangler about a correct tempi of a particular work, Fultwangler's answer was "it depends on the hall". The size, shape, number of audiences all contributes to the reverve time and subscequently, the balance and the tempo of the orchestra to achieve his intent.
Can a recording/reproducing faithfully recreate this aura of one time performance in your living room? I guess not, and I'm not sure how relevant it would be to appreciate the greatness of the performance, considering many poor concerts I attended live.
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