I came across the following quote from Pablo Picasso over the weekend.
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.It seemed apposite, given recent discussions on the ActKM listserv in which we had an advocate of the all knowledge management has to be information management persuasion. A case of making suns into yellow spots, or reducing human intelligence and insight into data perhaps?
Of course once you start checking out quotes (or looking for illustrations) you find more, so another Picasso quote of high relevance to knowledge management, and management in general:
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.Maybe we need a little more art, a little less of trying to render tacit knowledge into explicit forms; a little more engagement and a little less abstraction?
Oh, and one definition of render for good measure:
4 melt down (fat) : the fat was being cut up and rendered for lard.
• process (the carcass of an animal) in order to extract proteins, fats, and other usable parts : [as adj. ] ( rendered) the rendered down remains of sheep.)
Comments (4)
Oh Yes! And, the sun just came out ;-) Andrew
Posted by andrew campbell | April 30, 2007 6:44 AM
Posted on April 30, 2007 06:44
i involved welch in the connections of art and learning and presence a few years ago - this URL leads to some of his thoughts.
I have a doc. that compiles it all in regular format, if you are at all interested.
Andrew
Posted by andrew campbell | April 30, 2007 7:06 AM
Posted on April 30, 2007 07:06
Well here's a quote from Irish artist Louis le Brocquy, from an essay on 'Painting and Awareness':
He describes the artist's work as "disturbing the surface of things until significant accident becomes apparent, conserving this as best he can while provoking further accident".
I liked this instantly and noted it down because it speaks to me of what a lot of knowledge management FEELS like in practice. No painting by numbers here.
But there's a place for painting by numbers, as well. Not all painting has to be high art.
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April 30, 2007 2:58 PM
Posted on April 30, 2007 14:58
Hi, Maybe this Picasso quote fits this blog entry and the one a few days later, about the complexity implicit to recognizing the proto terrorist...it is a slippery business - painting and terrorist spotting...here's the quote - perhaps irreversibility is common to both in some special way...which way will he/she/it go next?
Picasso wrote that there is no abstract art.
You just always start with something. Afterwards you can remove all traces of reality. There is no danger there anyway, because the idea of the object will have left an indelible mark. It was what started the artist off, excited his ideas, and stirred up his emotions. When I paint a picture I am not concerned with the fact that two people may be represented in it. Those two people once existed for me but they exist no longer. My vision of them gave me a little emotion, then little by little they became for me a fiction, and then they disappeared altogether, or rather they were transformed into all kinds of problems, so that they became for me no longer two people but forms and colours - forms and colours which nevertheless resume an experience of two people and preserve the vibration of their life (1972, p. 64).
Posted by andrew campbell | May 1, 2007 3:49 PM
Posted on May 1, 2007 15:49