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Bart_van_der_Wolf
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Oh La La, Cedric.
That's quite a statement, but not very nice towards the lady. Okay for a statement, but less appealing as an image. I like your city settings better.
Cheers,
Bart
That's quite a statement, but not very nice towards the lady. Okay for a statement, but less appealing as an image. I like your city settings better.
Cheers,
Bart
Asher Kelman
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After all discussion: Beauty and dignity and balance in nature and humanity!
Bart,
I think this is, as all Cedric photography that I've seen, reflects Cedric's French higher education that has worked well in his case. Often I have heard, "Je m'en fou", I could care less, in meeting the French. At times, from such attitude, it might seem that they are hard, even selfish in not caring about what is beyond the individual. I do not know enough of this, however, this might very well be a hard layer over a softer interior.
France, a mother of such great ideas on how to live with each other, has been also scarred by regimes, foreign and domestic that has prevented values being utterly assimilated without reservations. Everything is in conflict. Napolean, a man who singlehandedly spread great French values over the world by force, gave the French headaches because of his dictatorship and draining wars. So there seems to be a long simmering conflict of old ideas and the best of ideas.
I am only now thinking about this since Cedric does not consciously intend to express major social commentary.
This picture is most important. One understands it best only by knowing his previous work. We see natural vegetation by water. Despite man's work on the planet, all this survives and walking nearby, a lady. She, like the plants, survives everything life has thrown against her. Still, she is dressed with elegance and walks alone and with dignity too. Here's a balance in a world that's harsh.
Such a composition, one that comes from inner values, is a sure sign of how artists work when the pathway from the most sacred parts of the mind are opened.
Asher
Bart,
I think this is, as all Cedric photography that I've seen, reflects Cedric's French higher education that has worked well in his case. Often I have heard, "Je m'en fou", I could care less, in meeting the French. At times, from such attitude, it might seem that they are hard, even selfish in not caring about what is beyond the individual. I do not know enough of this, however, this might very well be a hard layer over a softer interior.
France, a mother of such great ideas on how to live with each other, has been also scarred by regimes, foreign and domestic that has prevented values being utterly assimilated without reservations. Everything is in conflict. Napolean, a man who singlehandedly spread great French values over the world by force, gave the French headaches because of his dictatorship and draining wars. So there seems to be a long simmering conflict of old ideas and the best of ideas.
I am only now thinking about this since Cedric does not consciously intend to express major social commentary.
This picture is most important. One understands it best only by knowing his previous work. We see natural vegetation by water. Despite man's work on the planet, all this survives and walking nearby, a lady. She, like the plants, survives everything life has thrown against her. Still, she is dressed with elegance and walks alone and with dignity too. Here's a balance in a world that's harsh.
Such a composition, one that comes from inner values, is a sure sign of how artists work when the pathway from the most sacred parts of the mind are opened.
Asher