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to mystical simultaneous time – to observation from the “divine” viewpoint.
It is possible nowadays to see or experience the whole world simultaneously,
thanks to an immense capacity of memory, which is not unlike the complete
memory that is possible on the level of a higher power such as God.59 The cre-
ation of a virtual environment can also be likened to world creation.60 A virtual
reality is not necessarily similar to everyday reality. The virtual world can be very
different from the real world, even in its most fundamental principles. Such an
environment takes us back to the dream time characteristic of surrealist art.
The dream does not follow the laws of reality or of any particular style – every
artist has their own personal, subjective environment.
To sum up, let us examine this surrealist dream time in the painting “The
Two Madonnas” by Chaya Agur (fig. 5), which depicts several realities existing
simultaneously, side by side. This is a time that contains everything – the past,
the present and the future (as it appears nowadays in the digital augmented
59 Rosen 2016.
60 Friedman 2006.
Fig. 5: Chaya Agur, The Two Madonnas, oil on canvas, 60 x 50 cm.
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JRFM
Journal Religion Film Media, Band 05/02
- Titel
- JRFM
- Untertitel
- Journal Religion Film Media
- Band
- 05/02
- Autoren
- Christian Wessely
- Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati
- Herausgeber
- Uni-Graz
- Verlag
- Schüren Verlag GmbH
- Ort
- Graz
- Datum
- 2019
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Abmessungen
- 14.8 x 21.0 cm
- Seiten
- 219
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