On Apr 3, 2008, at 10:14 AM, Chris Miller wrote:
When Brady's professor tells the fourth year student: "The hands you
painted
look like flippers" - he teaching a taste for hands that look like
hands.
(apparently an important issue here on A-L -- as expressed in the
recent
dismay over the hands and feet of Gr|newald's Christ - and thank God
Gr|newald
never learned how to do them right!)
"That person you drew looks like a stick figure." Obviously, that
constitutes proof positive of my taste for figure drawings that don't
look like pipe-cleaner-people.
BTW: Grinewald? A forest of grine? What's grine?
And if Brady's professor is concerned that a viewer "will not be
able to
discern a hierarchy by responding to the shapes in the picture." -
he's
teaching a taste for such a hierarchy - otherwise, why raise the
issue ?
If you do X (make all the shapes the same size and distribute them
uniformly), you will produce Y (a lack of an easily-discerned
hierarchy in shape). "He's teaching a taste for hierarchy": Where in
this little teaching moment does taste appear?
"Otherwise, why raise the issue?" Well, I should have known. Chris
blows it again: Burninglogic practices inferential fallacio.
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