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A Lie Agreed Upon_04081701_V2 sq2
Available for sale - History and Painting are damn liars, frauds, shams. As well they both express profound truths. If the fraud is performed deftly the recipient of either will become a complicit disciple and agree to turn a blind eye to the deceit, and perpetuate the lie with the inexorable law of inertia.
At best painting can be a fraud perpetrated to tell a deeper truth. At worst history can be a fraud perpetrated to comfort the conscience of the victor, or to further an unsavory agenda.
What is the truth of any person with their contradictions? That person might have an ever lengthening, convoluted path filled perhaps with situational justifications. Where can an observer find the brick immutable truth in the history or representation of a legend, a hero, a despot, killer of ones kin, a cruel or righteous person passed into mythic proportions? Who actually is to judge, to know - if even the subject, the historian, prejudiced bystander or casual viewer? Perhaps the observer is the judge, in turn being judged in perpetuity.
A Lie Agreed Upon_04081701_V2 sq2
Available for sale - History and Painting are damn liars, frauds, shams. As well they both express profound truths. If the fraud is performed deftly the recipient of either will become a complicit disciple and agree to turn a blind eye to the deceit, and perpetuate the lie with the inexorable law of inertia.
At best painting can be a fraud perpetrated to tell a deeper truth. At worst history can be a fraud perpetrated to comfort the conscience of the victor, or to further an unsavory agenda.
What is the truth of any person with their contradictions? That person might have an ever lengthening, convoluted path filled perhaps with situational justifications. Where can an observer find the brick immutable truth in the history or representation of a legend, a hero, a despot, killer of ones kin, a cruel or righteous person passed into mythic proportions? Who actually is to judge, to know - if even the subject, the historian, prejudiced bystander or casual viewer? Perhaps the observer is the judge, in turn being judged in perpetuity.