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Attila,
Are you then stating that to be successful as art, a bonsai must resemble a tree as it would be found in nature? Am I reading your words correctly in that you believe that unless a bonsai mimics trees in nature, it is not bonsai and as such can not be artistic bonsai?
Is there really no room for surrealism in bonsai? Imagine the tree below in a pot, living, perhaps a defoliated decidious tree.....nothing like it in nature, would you consider it bonsai?
Image hotlinked from http://www.gypsygirlsguide.com/2007/09/burning_man_pictures_in_my_min.html
Possible?
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Maybe we just need a little Analytical Cubism in bonsai, breaking down the tree to its base form. Certainly we can not practice cubism to the point of killing a tree, but isn't it possible to say "tree" without copying one?
Braque's "Houses at L'Estaque"
Image hotlinked from http://www.arthistoryarchive.com
Perhaps abstract design? Mondrian's "Grey Tree" below illustrates his passion for stripping away nonessential detail in a tree, can we not do the same?
Image hotlinked from http://artid.com/members/art_in_his...e-urge-to-abstraction?SES=0856efc15b1276eece6
Maybe we just need to rethink presentation?
Image hotlinked from http://www.designflavr.com/tags/tree/
The point still being that we do not necessarily need to be bound by only how a tree naturally appears in nature.....
WIlll
Are you then stating that to be successful as art, a bonsai must resemble a tree as it would be found in nature? Am I reading your words correctly in that you believe that unless a bonsai mimics trees in nature, it is not bonsai and as such can not be artistic bonsai?
Is there really no room for surrealism in bonsai? Imagine the tree below in a pot, living, perhaps a defoliated decidious tree.....nothing like it in nature, would you consider it bonsai?
Image hotlinked from http://www.gypsygirlsguide.com/2007/09/burning_man_pictures_in_my_min.html
Possible?
Image hotlinked from http://artsed.pbworks.com/Arts-Ed-and-Technology
Maybe we just need a little Analytical Cubism in bonsai, breaking down the tree to its base form. Certainly we can not practice cubism to the point of killing a tree, but isn't it possible to say "tree" without copying one?
Braque's "Houses at L'Estaque"
Image hotlinked from http://www.arthistoryarchive.com
Perhaps abstract design? Mondrian's "Grey Tree" below illustrates his passion for stripping away nonessential detail in a tree, can we not do the same?
Image hotlinked from http://artid.com/members/art_in_his...e-urge-to-abstraction?SES=0856efc15b1276eece6
Maybe we just need to rethink presentation?
Image hotlinked from http://www.designflavr.com/tags/tree/
The point still being that we do not necessarily need to be bound by only how a tree naturally appears in nature.....
WIlll