claim

active

claim:the-cow-is-a-greater-work-than-parahi-te-marae-because-it-penetrates-deeper-and-is-more-that-ultimate-thing-which-gauguin-did-to-please-himself

The cow is a greater work than Parahi te Marae because it penetrates deeper and is more that ultimate thing which Gauguin did to please himself.

Aesthetic judgment reversing the standard valuation of Gauguin's works based on the criterion of true self-pleasing.

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

Artifacts (2)

artifact

Vache Accroupie by Paul Gauguin (1900)
about
Painting of a crouching cow, black and white with golden green around its head; described by Christie's as a 'minor Gauguin' but held by Alexander to be more innocent and greater than Gauguin's knowing works.
Parahi te Marae (The Sacred Mountain) by Paul Gauguin
contradicts
A greater but more knowing Gauguin painting, illustrated in Book 1; Alexander contrasts its considered construction with the cow's innocence.

Related by similarity (8)

cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edge

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

Gauguin himself was slightly ashamed of the cow picture, just as students are sometimes ashamed of their greatest works because they are too naive, too direct.claim0.742
Speculative claim that Gauguin felt the same vulnerability about Vache Accroupie that Alexander's students felt about their best work.
The Bodhisattva's care drive is decidedly superior to the Māra drive according to the light cone model.claim0.727
Comparison of universal care vs. universal obstruction.
If the Māra drive is reducible to a wish to maintain the status quo, then the intelligence of the Bodhisattva's care should display decidedly superior features according to the light cone model.hypothesis0.710
Predictive conditional comparing two universal drives.
The ornament from a Pennsylvania barn causes the observer's humanity to expand; the symbolic ornament from Brasilia causes humanity to diminish, despite Brasilia's ornament being intended as upliftingfinding0.703
Comparative case study illustrating that intended symbolic meaning does not determine actual phenomenological impact on observer wholeness
The works of Nolde, Matisse, Bonnard, van Gogh and a few modern buildings touch a modern wellspring that is almost the same as the mystical wellspring that inspired historical works, yet in a non‑religious form.claim0.696
The observation that non‑religious modern works can still achieve a comparable spiritual quality, showing the rootstock is not confined to traditional religion.
The greater life in the animal comes from the field of centers which is created there, not from copying or 'realism'.claim0.695
Extension of the previous claim, tying life directly to centers.
The great life in works by Matisse and van Gogh is somewhat misleading because the same feeling of life can occur in a dirty hut or slum.claim0.690
Warns against equating life only with high art; ordinariness can have equal life.
A great work of art makes a permanent connection with the I.claim0.688
The highest works of art open a enduring window to the ground.