Bearing

Painting's dependence on seeing the "natural world" is the same as Music's dependence on hearing the natural world. Meaning very little. Or very much. But painting is not a translation of the natural world in a two dimensional space despite any claim to. In fact the natural world is only a series of factors that influence a painting. The other is mathematics and knowledge. Much like music is never the reiteration of the songs of birds or the sounds of the trees swaying in the wind. Painting and Music are artifice and ultimately about human beings and their relationship every aspect of the world. Natural, artificial, imagined, real, surreal. It encompasses more than the natural world. I find that musicians are not mistaken for copying the songs of birds. So painters should not be mistaken for copying the sight of birds.