Transparency

Something came up while I was going over the readings for the week. I'm not a theorist, nor am I going to pretend to be one. I am much less going to try to understand anything that goes on in other people's head. Not to put down the people who write theory, but why the hell do they pretend to know what's going on inside other people's head. I started thinking about the cubist movement, and the way that it was described in the reading, and it seems that cubists, while trying to create a new art form and pave the way for the future, just followed the same path that the classical painters did. If painting comes from intuition, then shouldn't they paint was they feel is right, without say or do? I know if I was going to paint by intuition, I wouldn't follow a set of rules, I would follow what felt right. So why in the hell are they using a grid, or depth, or anything related to painting. I don't really know if I am understanding any of it, but I'm certainly trying. If you look at old classic type of paintings, everything is related, depth, color, order. Cezanne's uses colors relating to the actual colors of the landscape. Shouldn't he be using something else. If they are trying to get away from the classical form of painting, which emphasizes that which is natural and ordered, why do it? If you are going on about this type of art and the downfalls of it, shouldn't one do the opposite of everything he's going against? I know if I wanted to do something different from someone else, I wouldn't do what they were doing. I also disagree with the author, I actually thought that Braque's painting had a feeling of deeper space, and Picasso's was actually shallower. Maybe it was the color, I don't know, but that was what I thought. Besides that I enjoyed the article about transparency. It's interesting that when I mention transparency, I think of transparent, as in glass, and not space. However, it's interesting how transparency changes with the use of materials or how glazing and the way that it's set up can change the way that we view spaces. The introduction of a wall or the continuation of the glazing provide an understanding of transparency that is quite unique, because it can literally give you glimpses of spaces inside of a building, keeping with transparency as space, or it can give you a wholly transparent buildings, which keeps with the original sense of the word transparency.