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Erik Elo
Apr 3, 1996, 3:00:00 AM4/3/96
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I have a great idea for a surrealist painting or representation
of an image. In San Francisco, right next to the brand new Musuem of
Modern Art, which by the way has 1 Dali painting, 1 Yves Tanguay
painting, and 1 painting by Giorgio de Chirico who heavily influenced the
surrealist painters with his juxtoposition of different objects in new
meaningful and shocking ways, but anyways across the street from the
musuem is the Yerba Buena gardens, and if you go into the center of the
gardens with your back facing the waterfall great quotes tribute you can
see what I have seen. On the left there is a large hotel its elaborate
shape and texture in a postmodern vein, while on the write there is a
plain, subdued modernist, but nonetheless tall building. These two
buildings are the mountains which form the valley in which the church
lies. The old 18th century church between these two buildings completes
the picture. And now imagine the waterfall behind you transposed onto
the picture in front of you. So that water pours over the top of the
church onto the street and into the park. Thus, just as occurs in nature
where one can see a valley with water flowing into it, one sees the
waterfall fall over the church with the past [modernism] and present
[postmodernism] surrounding it.
of an image. In San Francisco, right next to the brand new Musuem of
Modern Art, which by the way has 1 Dali painting, 1 Yves Tanguay
painting, and 1 painting by Giorgio de Chirico who heavily influenced the
surrealist painters with his juxtoposition of different objects in new
meaningful and shocking ways, but anyways across the street from the
musuem is the Yerba Buena gardens, and if you go into the center of the
gardens with your back facing the waterfall great quotes tribute you can
see what I have seen. On the left there is a large hotel its elaborate
shape and texture in a postmodern vein, while on the write there is a
plain, subdued modernist, but nonetheless tall building. These two
buildings are the mountains which form the valley in which the church
lies. The old 18th century church between these two buildings completes
the picture. And now imagine the waterfall behind you transposed onto
the picture in front of you. So that water pours over the top of the
church onto the street and into the park. Thus, just as occurs in nature
where one can see a valley with water flowing into it, one sees the
waterfall fall over the church with the past [modernism] and present
[postmodernism] surrounding it.
erik elo
ea...@ucdavis.edu
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