Monday, September 17, 2007
(3:56 PM) | Brad:
More Dirty Thoughts
I was in Seattle last weekend -- hence the absence of Weekend Jazz then (no excuse this weekend) -- and was positively delighted when I found this postcard.
Like all truly great works of art, the beauty of this image is that it is really open to innumerable interpretations. As Ruskin once wrote, "I say that the art is greatest which conveys to the mind of the spectator, by any means whatsoever, the greatest number of the greatest ideas; and I call an idea great in proportion as it is received by a higher faculty of the mind, and as it more fully occupies, and in occupying, exercises and exalts, the faculty by which it is received." Be it, for example, a graphic depiction of a nerdy lad whacking a penis or a piece of poo with a baguette, Ruskin's description fits.
He would be proud.
