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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 9342769"><p>I agree with [USER=19675]@Dannyalcatraz[/USER] as a guitar player on this one (and I think his position is pretty nuanced here). But admittedly a guitar solo is tricky because there are no words, it is all emotion, melody, cadence and phrasing. A similar musical example that everyone would get might be Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah. Almost no one knows the original song anymore, which is quite different from the newer versions which all stem I think from Jeff Buckley's interpretation. That one gets trickier too because Cohen rewrote some of the words to fit the themes Buckley wanted to emphasis (the original version feels more religious, whereas Buckley's focuses more on the sexual elements). But I think the fact that Cohen rewrote it to fit Buckley's interpretation is telling here. If it were me, when it comes to the meaning of the original song, I would defer to Cohen's interpretation as definitive. That doesn't mean it can't be re-imagined or aspects of it given greater emphasis. But there was an original meaning that came from Cohen which I think deserves to be respected. I just ca't get onboard with the whole death of the artist thing. The artists' intent is very important. Again for clarity, I don't think that is particularly relevant to whether a figurine based on an Elmore painting is a man or woman, as the figurine itself is a new piece of art, similar to Beck's. My critique was never with the new piece of art. It was simply with people acting like the work had left the gender a mystery this whole time.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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