Sunday, May 10, 2015

Mechanical Reproduction

"Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be. This unique existence of the work of art determined the history to which it was subject throughout the time of its existence"

What this passage means to me is that no matter how amazing or beautiful something looks, it is never complete; there is something always missing. Many of the paintings used back in the day symbolize something, sometimes good; other times bad. Many paintings were made at a certain point to describe a certain event, when Hitlers was killing the Jewish community; several artist made paintings to explain what was going on. It was a way for the  people to communicate without getting into trouble, the paintings would look like something positive; but explain a whole different thing. I chose this passage because many of the time things look a certain way but it's the complete opposite. It's like they say; " things aren't as good as they seem". In my opinion this is what this passage is about. 


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