Who Said Art Is the Lie That Tells the Truth

I desire to be clear with all of my readers. I am pushing 71-years old and I have a problem. I don't know what I want to do when I grow up. I honey instruction, traveling, and writing. I accept taught at several universities over two decades. I have traveled extensively to all the continents and to twoscore-countries some of which are no longer countries like West and East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia. In addition, I wrote a human interest column for over a dozen years. I have continued my writing and travel sections in my webpage and Facebook.

What I want to do is to alloy these three careers into one...somehow. They are morphing together fifty-fifty at present. I teach an introduction to philosophy class and apply my writing and traveling experiences all the time. Just last week, we were discussing the philosophy of art. The course read the chapter in the text and had to apply it to a required movie, Immortal Dearest, which is about Beethoven. Information technology is a groovy film, but it is even greater as a teaching aid.
I of my students posted on our online discussion lath something that she read by Picasso. Picasso said near art: "Fine art is a lie that tells the truth."
I love it when my students think nearly questions that are raised in course so go off to the Cyberspace and discover things. Every semester 1 student volition discover Picasso's statement: "Art is a lie that tells the truth."

I too teach art history and regular history classes and spend a lot of time particularly in the regular history form dealing with the run-upward to WWII with Picasso's Guernica.

Guernica

What Picasso said near fine art existence a lie, which tell the truth, is true with my teaching aid Immortal Beloved. That statement of Picasso's is true about Beethoven and his immortal beloved. Scholars have argued about the possible 6-or more dissimilar women existence his immortal beloved. However, this list does not include who the film claims. The artistic expression of the filmmakers is a lie. Nonetheless, it isn't germane to his fine art or the fine art of the moving picture that told the truth about this suffering composer.

I told the form that this modus operandi is truthful in a great bargain of art. When I was much younger and still in high school, I saw the motion picture, The Span on the River Kwai. If you haven't seen it, meet information technology. It won the Best Moving picture award and half dozen-others.

The moving-picture show

It was a keen film, only much of it was a lie...historically. Pierre Boulle, who was a French POW in Thailand during WWII wrote a volume entitled: The Span over the River Kwai. Boulle, beingness French, didn't want to portray some of his follow French POWs as non so neat people. Therefore, he said that they were British, which was a lie.
However, on a trip to Indochina, I fabricated sure that I went to meet the span...the ane is withal standing. In that location were actually two bridges...some other lie. Nevertheless, there I stood on the Span over/on the River Kwai, which is another lie...it wasn't the Kwai River. Regardless, standing at that place was one of the greatest moments of my educational life. I knew more about the bridge than 99% of all Americans...I studied, read, thought, etc. virtually that bridge for years and needed to meet it. What an experience it was.

I told my course that I had forgotten one slight detail nigh the bridge. The 24-hour interval before, I was in Chiang Mai, which is in northern Thailand. I ate in a restaurant, got nutrient poisoning, and wound up in my hotel room's bath for several hours dealing with the results of food poisoning. Finally, I went to a local hospital for several boosted hours. I felt so sick that I feared that I wouldn't die and just be deathly ill for days.

However, the adjacent day, I flew to Bangkok and visited the bridge, which wasn't far from the city. I stood on that span. In that location I was continuing on the bridge really knowing virtually the span.

Some might say that I know more than whatsoever textbook or article about the Bridge on/over the River Kwai because I actually know the whole story in detail. I knew something of what it felt like to exist a Pw and be sick with all sorts of illnesses far worse than my example of food poisoning. Those POWs were sick not for a day...simply for months betwixt June 1942 to October 1943 as slave laborers of the Japanese.

And all this was due to artistic lies. I learned the truth, because some Frenchman lied in book, The Bridge over the River Kwai and Hollywood lied in a film, The Bridge on the River Kwai.

My experience in Kanchanaburi, which is a small town near Bangkok where the two bridges were took place during wintertime break in 2009-10. Bangkok was the outset point of the 258-mile Death Railway. During the winter break this year, I will exist at the terminus of the Expiry Railway...Rangoon, Burma.

The way by runway to Rangoon/Yangon from Bangkok during WWII

Traveling, learning, and writing quite easily morph into a mutual thread...that of learning the truth about life. In that location is so much out there that isn't in a volume; y'all must experience it to know the truth. I'm already planning a trip to St. Petersburg, Russian federation and visit the Moika Palace where Rasputin, the Mad Monk, was assassinated. All that I need is a newspaper or Internet site that wants me to do a special on the 100th anniversary of Rasputin's death in tardily December 2016.

If you would like to view a very expert documentary about the Decease Railway, wait at this video with much bodily film nearly the edifice of the rail line.

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