Elysia 2
- ELYSIA 2 - A black ink and gray color pencil drawing on an 11 x 14 size vellum paper. It appears in the book, "Elysia: the Coming of Cthulhu," by Brian Lumley, Published by Ganley in 1989.
"Art is a universal language," is a statement I've often read in books about art, and it seems like an obvious concept because no matter what country you are from, no matter what language you speak, the "picture" is the same to all.
But wait a minute . . . each object in a picture will be recorded with a different word in the minds of people in different countries with different languages. And each language may not have the exact same meaning for each of the words. For example; To a person in one country the "snake-woman" in my drawing (whatever the word for her is in that particular language) may represent someone "evil," while in another country she may represent a mother-goddess, someone holy.
And that makes me doubt that "Art is a universal language".
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