Yesterday's Pic, Or, Bullshit

I didn't see this week's theme until now. It's basically an interaction between two halves.

So the first one was a picture of a Stalinist structure, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He made a lot of buildings like that, called wedding cake style. He liked it. It was an ugly picture.

Then it was another building. More politics, only now it was modern ugly, modernist ugly, with the Scottish Parliament. The modern western ugly versus the old Soviet ugly. There is the clash, both in political buildings.

So now we're in politics, and what it can do when it comes into the real world. Like the destruction of two statues that had been standing for a millenia and a half.

This is a destruction that destroys beauty, but destruction have an eerie calm beauty, like the Peacekeeper flight trails. Weird symmetrical trails, like what you'd imagine God would do.

Then bringing it back to the much smaller scale - flaming cocktails. Fun beauty, with the same destructive fire that can destroy cities with a nuclear bomb (remember, a nuclear bomb destroys not with radiation, but with massive fire.) It can be a party trick.

So we're getting light, now we're going to Jean Arp, who had to escape Germany because of the First World War. He lied. He escaped from politics and the surrealist movement, but he ends up looking cute/trite. Nothing serious.

Compare this small portrait, with a cute little thing over his eye, to this massive unproduced Stalinist building of him, as this huge statue. Is that any more absurd than anything the Surrealists made?

Anyway, just some thoughts about destruction, politics, and beauty.

It's all bullshit, though, I admit, but eh. Go read CNN.com or any other website if you want something that isn't pointless meandering.