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An Except from The Decay of Lying by Oscar Wilde discussion
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An Except from The Decay of Lying by Oscar Wilde A dialogue between Cyril and Vivian Discussion Questions What does he mean when he says the 'wonderful brown fog comes from the impressionalists"? What he means by stating that we get those wonderful brown fogs from impressionalists is that the brown fog that we actually see in reality did not come to exist until the impressionalists based their artwork on it. He argues that regardless of whether this image actually existed previous to the work of art that depicts it, the majority of individuals did not perceive the brown fog in reality because they did not notice it. What the author is trying to say is that all of our surrounding is composed of only the things that we notice. To some extent this deals with the issue of "we only see what we want to see". This is because a society aims...
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