Replying to LO28970 --
Andrew, you asked whether we thought
> that Courbet and the other earlier
> schools like the Barbizon painters working from and IN the landscape were
> examples of LO's?
At first I tried to think deeply (!) about your question while summoning
up all my memory reserves from pictures at exhibitions. But wait. This
question of yours strikes me as going to the heart of this list's very
existence, a spot where, if one falls into it, one at the same time falls
out of it into a sublime oblivion [sic].
Listen, we have been arguing, positing, opining, on the nature of the
learning organization. Some want to place boundaries around the LO so as
to better describe, define and harness it right now. Good.
But an LO has ALWAYS existed whenever and wherever humans congregate and
communicate through word and action. That's what yours truly thinks.
So, yes, the earlier schools who gathered around a master, who further
gathered around what were considered the essential elements of a painting
(like the essential elements of the classical French play of the 17th
century -- time, place, etc.) manifested the qualities of organized
learning, or learning organisms, or organic learning, or learning (verb)
organization, or... learning (adjective) organization.
What fun.
Barry
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