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Originally Posted by imcarthur
While I might agree about the running shoes & the clothes peg as rather pointless, the painting of those boots is different. There is a story there & the viewer can't help wondering what that story is . . .
Ian
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Why so different ?
Those discarded shoes could have been worn by some bum - maybe a bum that was once somebody. Who maybe was a homeless Vietnam Vet. Or maybe someone who once had a good, "normal , unspectacular" life that went all to hell.
Maybe nothing so dramatic - just an old pair of shoes worn out from many a fun game of basketball.
I am reminded of Pig Pen talking about dust....
Charles Schultz was also a Vet - WWII, heavy combat and haunted by it.
My feeling is that we swim in a world of art like a fish lives in water and that the artists are able to make us see and appreciate what we might take for granted otherwise.
Not all of us see in the same way or can be made to see or appreciate the same things.
There is no right or wrong (IMHO). It's all good - or bad, or some of it's good for some and bad for others.
None of it is worth fighting over.