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:Find a quote where anybody other than you calls that piece of installation art a "painting". [[Image:User Fox.png|10px]] [[User:Fox|Fox]] <small>([[User talk:Fox|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/Fox|contribs]])</small> 18:47, 14 May 2008 (EDT)
:Find a quote where anybody other than you calls that piece of installation art a "painting". [[Image:User Fox.png|10px]] [[User:Fox|Fox]] <small>([[User talk:Fox|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/Fox|contribs]])</small> 18:47, 14 May 2008 (EDT)
:You keep harking back to quotes about the definitions of "art" , NOT the definitions of "painting". Nobody is saying it is not art, but that doesn't make it a painting! [[Image:User Fox.png|10px]] [[User:Fox|Fox]] <small>([[User talk:Fox|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/Fox|contribs]])</small> 18:49, 14 May 2008 (EDT)
:Perhaps we're missing the metaphor [[User:Joaquín Martínez|Joaquín Martínez]] is shooting for: The earth, the island itself is the canvas, the fabrics and their colors the "paints".
::Perhaps we're missing the metaphor [[User:Joaquín Martínez|Joaquín Martínez]] is shooting for: The earth, the island itself is the canvas, the fabrics and their colors the "paints".
:If the "sculptures" that Christo creates are seen, not as a three dimensional work but rather as a 3-dimensional work masquerading ''as'' a two-dimensional work which is what a painting is at heart. Perhaps a compromise could be reached by creating a sub header realizing this? [[User talk:MargeryCampbell|Marge]] 18:45, 14 May 2008 (EDT)
::If the "sculptures" that Christo creates are seen, not as a three dimensional work but rather as a 3-dimensional work masquerading ''as'' a two-dimensional work which is what a painting is at heart. Perhaps a compromise could be reached by creating a sub header realizing this? [[User talk:MargeryCampbell|Marge]] 18:45, 14 May 2008 (EDT)