• @[email protected]
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        310 months ago

        Or Pictures at an Exhibition (wikipaedia link) by Modest Mussorgsky?

        (Especially the Emerson, Lake & Palmer version) (Youtube link)

        In the UK at least, “Picture” is totally fine shorthand, even today, to refer to a flat 2D thing that might be put on a wall in a gallery, whether it be a painting, drawing, photograph etc. More formally it would tend towards being a figurative (rather than abstract) work.

    • @Jerb322
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      610 months ago

      The whole thing is drawn, how can you tell it’s not a picture?

      • @[email protected]
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        610 months ago

        Because it’s a representation of an actual painting, but if we’re going to be overly semantic then I give up. You win

          • @[email protected]
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            It’s light traveling from your phone to your eyeballs.

            Then it’s neuronal signals to your brain.

            OMG it’s abstraction all the way down, isn’t it!? :-P

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              210 months ago

              Those neurons are cells and they need the mitochondria which uses protein to make energy… so everything is just energy in some form or other

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                210 months ago

                And energy in turn derives from the sub-atomic level, which itself sits on top of the quantum, although some people say that it is all oscillations of n-branes… therefore do any words ever have any meaning, really, ever?:-P

        • @BlackPenguins
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          310 months ago

          It happened! Someone said someone else won on the Internet.

    • @Buddahriffic
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      310 months ago

      I’m not sure I like the picture you’re trying to paint with this comment.