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September 23, 2006
Zdzis?aw Beksi?ski
It must be great to be an artist. You get to puncture pretentious ideas about art and literature and no one has any come back because you're the one doing the art, not just talking about it. Here is Beksi?ski in conversation with Henryk Brzozowski:
I'm sure you know all those cliches people have been writing about Beethoven for years. That in the Fifth and the Appassionata you can hear the knocking of fate on the door... If it's knocking, it must be an anthropomorphic fate: it's wearing a jacket, knocking with the right hand while holding in the left hand its hat, which it took off so it wouldn't disturb him while he was listening to the music and knocking at the right moments and in time.
Zna Pan na pewno te wszystkie komuna?y, które od lat wypisuje si? o muzyce Beethovena. ?e w Pi?tej i Appassionacie s?ycha? pukanie losu do drzwi... Je?eli puka, to chyba jest to los antropomorficzny: nosi marynark?, praw? rek? puka, a w lewej trzyma kapelusz, który zdj??, by mu nie przeszkadza? przy sluchaniu muzyki i pukaniu w odpowiednich momentach i do taktu.
Some of Beksi?ski's art: here.
(Later:)
It turns out I can put pictures on this page after all... This is Beksi?ski:
Posted by hgrodsk at September 23, 2006 11:16 PM