So much going on - my head is about to explode and I’m about to drop from exhaustion; but Art needs to live too.  I had several meetings today, including Meeting with Bryan and Jeffrey Eisenberg at FutureNow, this evening and having Lunch with Sebastian Wenzel - aka WebAnalyticsBook.  I got to see the Eisenberg’s Art Collection, including a Chagall, but am too tired to go into detail right now.

And tonight I also wrote a post on Webmetricsguru about how Web Analytics Reporting is like adding touches to a painting, inspired by Gary Angel’s most recent post in SemAngel.

And that’s when it hit me (well, I knew it all along) that everything we add to a painting either contributes to it, or takes away from it - it’s either one or the other (consider something that neither adds or takes away from the painting - a negative) - same thing that Gary Angel was saying about Web Analytics Reporting.

And at the end of the day, you like a painting, or you don’t; you like a work of art, or you don’t. 

And here’s a picture by Paul Cezanne, the same one I put on WebMetricsGuru - to illustrate the point that Cezanne considered every brushstroke, individually, as something that added, or took away from his “concept”, or ideation of the painting.

 

 
Cezanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire , 1900, Oil on canvas, 78 x 99 cm (31 x 39 in); Hermitage, St. Petersburg

And now, I’m ready to collapse and get a couple of hours of sleep before tomorrow’s grind.