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Picture Poems a poems written for, and pasted on, pictures, paintings or graphic art. The poem describes or emulated the picture in verse.

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SIMULACRUM

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truth simulacrum

“Some people have observed that truth is relative to all other truth.  It can also be said that truth is a cooperative  effort of creators, solidified through mutual agreement, and the perception of those who view creation.”

~ Lawrence R. Spencer ~

Definition: “The simulacrum has long been of interest to philosophers. In his Sophist, Plato speaks of two kinds of image making. The first is a faithful reproduction, attempted to copy precisely the original. The second is intentionally distorted in order to make the copy appear correct to viewers.  He gives the example of Greek statuary, which was crafted larger on the top than on the bottom so that viewers on the ground would see it correctly. If they could view it in scale, they would realize it was malformed.

This example from the visual arts serves as a metaphor for the philosophical arts and the tendency of some philosophers to distort truth so that it appears accurate unless viewed from the proper angle. Nietzsche addresses the concept of simulacrum in the Twilight of the Idols, suggesting that most philosophers, by ignoring the reliable input of their senses and resorting to the constructs of language and reason, arrive at a distorted copy of reality.

French social theorist Jean Baudrillard argues that a simulacrum is not a copy of the real, but becomes truth in its own right: the hyperreal.  “The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth. It is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true.” Precession of the Simulacra, Jean Baudrillard

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9 Principles of Japanese Aesthetics

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As a painter and writer I was delighted by this wonderful article about the aesthetics of the Japanese.  In my opinion, no culture on Earth has a more highly refined sense of aesthetic. The principles of Japanese art described in this article are eloquently illustrated!

9 Principles of Japanese Art and Culture

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LET IT BE PREDETERMINED

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LET IT BEFatalism: noun —  resignation, stoicism, acceptance of the inevitable;

Stoicism: noun — the endurance of pain or hardship without a display of feelings and without complaint.   synonyms: patience, forbearance, resignation, fortitude, endurance, acceptance, tolerance

Predeterminism: noun — the idea that all events are determined in advance.[Predeterminism is the philosophy that all events of history, past, present and future, have been already decided or are already known (by God, fate, or some other force), including human actions.

Predestination; noun — a doctrine or theory common to many of the prevalent religions such as Christianity, Islam Buddhism and Hinduism. Some of the features of it apparently seem identical with each other in every religion but the spirit of this concept generally varies in all to cause the bewilderment in the human community as to which of these explanations is based on truth.