Definition of odalisques
Because sight is not vision, enigmatic symbols of fancy orientalism used as fantasy-like figures are odalisques.
Because sight is not vision, enigmatic symbols of fancy orientalism used as fantasy-like figures are odalisques.
Art-directed perception is crucial to face the ever-changing environment, and in some situations, it may be crucial to be able to change the way we think and dream.
Enigmatic look is higher mysterious power.
The death of Robert Rauschenberg, May 12, 2008.
In visual perception, odalisques are never seen as they really are, as they physically are.
Josef Albers, Interaction of colors
Images are not just passive entities that coexist with their human hosts, any more than the microorganisms that dwell in our intestines. They change the way we think and dream. They refunction our memories and imaginations, bringing new criteria and new desires into the world.
Robert Rauschenberg : Figure drawing without thought is art lost and thought without drawing is perilous.
Good art theory must smell the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.
Rudolf Arnheim, Art and Visual perception,
Orientalism unsolved mystery
Art stems from a distortion of perception and expression of reality. That's for crazy artists.