Blackout Lyric: A Picture Is a Sum of Destruction

An interesting diary juxtaposition as a lyric idea. 

3/8/2013
 
Re: Picasso’s “Bull” (plates I - XI) 1945 - 46: Picasso continued his analogy by saying, “a picture used to be a sum of additions”  In my case, a picture is a sum of destruction. I do a picture, then I destroy it.. Perhaps this refers to his idea that there really is no abstract art:

“You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality”. He wanted only emotion projected by his art.

3/8/2022 

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has already destroyed a Lviv museum containing works by renowned Ukrainian painters, some with substantial cred: Picasso, Chagall. If art never got destroyed by anything, even by time, how much would there be? The population explosion made the art mountains even higher. 

Watched Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom. What’s interesting about huge violent protests, or large protests of any kind, is that people show up for all kinds of reasons and take many sides. It’s essentially just a mob of angry people, or people feeling that there’s something wrong. It’s a spectacle basically—an event for their mostly boring and routine lives.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If art never got destroyed
Even by time
How much would there be?

Winter on fire
Ukraine’s fight for freedom
People show up
And take many sides
A mob of angry people
People feeling that there’s something wrong

A picture is a sum of destruction
A picture is a sum of destruction

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