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Originally Posted by Gambet
I don't see how asking him what it means was an incorrect question.
If I painted an abstract heart and an arrow, I would say that it is a heart and an arrow, and that it meant pain, sorrow, heart-breaking.
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Then it wouldn't be abstract, would it? Abstract art is bull ****.
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I'm taking Art History this year, I think I remember hearing that he supposedly never finished it, not sure though, might have been another painting since we brushed up on it at the beginning of the term ;P
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Da Vinci rarely painted his work - when he started he did, but as he collected a following of students they often did the hard work, he just composed the art.
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You can look at it however you want to, but he never openly stated what the picture was about.
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They didn't really care back then, most of them were just like "OMG JOHN OF ITALY GO
HIS PORTRAIT PAINTED, ME 2 PLZ."
But this is a discussion of Ems work, so lets not discuss Leonardo Da Vinci.