Painting: Rafal Olbinski's Apple Trees
Fallen Apple
The fallen apple.
Ripe with ardor,
it drops from provisional support
and rolls into fertile mire
of fecundity, ignominy.
It’ll not rot in isolation. © Jeanne I. Lakatos
From my first book:
A musical composition contains a specific theme. This theme can then repeat every time a musician performs the piece. However, the theme will elicit variations based on instrumentation, acoustics, and musicians actively attempting to recreate the original sound. A new aurally thematic expression results from this interpretation.
Likewise, a work of art will receive the eyes of multiple viewers. Each person adapts his/her life experience to the interpretation of the rendered artistic theme, thus altering the original thematic construct of the artist. Hence, a theme is in a constant state of evolution, no matter which art form has been presented (Lakatos 20).
How do these representations of themes demonstrate Iconic Realism? In both Olbinski's painting and my poem above, the representation is apples, both artistic expressions reveal the idea of an apple, a healthy fresh fruit, juxtaposed with a more negative depiction of this fruit: fallen. Yet, both expressions illustrate that it's not the apple's doing that leads to the fallen nature and inevitable end; it's the decisions made by the individuals surrounding those apples that bring the audience to an understanding that through righteousness, one can move forward in a more positive direction.
