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In "Der Zauberberg", of Thomas Mann, Settembrini says that the music has to be preceded by literature to have an effect. I would claim, by extension, that all kind of art should go together with literature. I cannot consider them separately.
Lately I'm reflecting about the linguistic theory of Roy Harris, who, roughly condensing, belives in communication, rather than in language, which is, in his view, non existent: every utterance is new and unique. He holds that you cannot say the same thing twice, exactly as you cannot draw the same line twice (as I tried to do in the picture), because there is not a fixed code.
It abruptely came to my mind the idea that the minimal unit of language is the word, wich can be compared to the minimal unit of visual art, the line. Well, I'm perfectly conscious that both ideas can be questionables, but this kind of correspondence fascinates me, and is making me think about the relationship between art (visual music included) and literature, as well as the link between linguistic theories and philosophy. I haven't a complete outlook of the whole matter yet, of course, but I'm just tryng to put some ideas together.
The picture is the first attempt to condense these thoughts in a concrete artpiece. I mean, I don't want you to like it, I just want you to consider it as a work, and not as an explanatory draft.