23 Feb 2015, 2:35 pm
kraftiekortie wrote:
The "Allegory of a Cave": one of my favorite works of all time.
It will teach me patience when I become a therapist. I am not patient by nature.
It will teach me patience when I become a therapist. I am not patient by nature.
Those old bearded guys in Ancient Greece had it all figured out..
23 Feb 2015, 2:58 pm
They knew the "sage value" of a beard 
I think, in Ancient Greece (as in America from just after the Civil War until about 1880), one's experience was judged by one's beard.
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23 Feb 2015, 4:40 pm
Raleigh wrote:
I have a theory.
The patterns in the natural world are so calming to me because they don't need arranging. When I look at the stars or the pattern of foam on the waves it always seems to be arranged perfectly although it's not regular. I never think, "Those stars need to be put in groups of 3 according to brightness!" The stars are arranged in perfect disorder already.
In the human world I can't look at anything without feeling like it needs to be put in a certain order.
The patterns in the natural world are so calming to me because they don't need arranging. When I look at the stars or the pattern of foam on the waves it always seems to be arranged perfectly although it's not regular. I never think, "Those stars need to be put in groups of 3 according to brightness!" The stars are arranged in perfect disorder already.
In the human world I can't look at anything without feeling like it needs to be put in a certain order.
That makes sense, I hadn't thought about it that way before, nature is perfectly disordered.
For me classic architecture in particular, or architecture designed using the golden ratio is perfect and balanced, but many modern buildings do not have this harmony. So for me then if it's mathematically balanced or perfectly disordered it doesn't need to be reordered.
TheAP wrote:
That's true--if it's actually art, that's fine. But random initials scribbled on a wall--that not only disgusted me when I was younger, but I almost had a phobia of it.
Athough I don't condone vandalism, I think there is a distinct difference.
23 Feb 2015, 4:42 pm
23 Feb 2015, 4:58 pm
Amity wrote:
Athough I don't condone vandalism, I think there is a distinct difference.
The top picture is amazing art, and also aesthetically pleasing. I don't have a problem with that. The bottom picture is what I hate.
23 Feb 2015, 5:04 pm
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23 Feb 2015, 5:54 pm
The scribble is symbolically significant as the first stage of artistic development and written communication, humans have communicated this way on stone since the neolithic period.
23 Feb 2015, 6:23 pm
