Different era's have thought different qualities were timeless - so no timeless to one era is not timeless to another - your confusing tradition with timeless - the nude and colors are not prescribed as universals per se just constants - in that color is used to very different ends over the course of history and so is the representation of the human figure - consequently they are universals on the most reductive level because they subscribe to no particular standards, criteria, or values
On 4/25/09 9:04 PM, "armando baeza" <[email protected]> wrote: Timelessness refers to all periods equally, no? The more gadgets we include in art, the more difficult art gets. That's why i stay with the and nude body. And Congers stays with color and form and Boris stays with nature, I think. mando On Apr 25, 2009, at 2:12 PM, Saul Ostrow wrote: > Or inversely it has come to be associated with some other periods > sense of > timelessness > > > On 4/25/09 2:19 PM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > > In a message dated 4/25/09 1:46:57 PM, [email protected] writes: > > >> Whether art, local or universal, only depicts the historically >> personal, >> without a sense of timelessness it's place will remain just >> historical. >> >> > > Presumably that means that some historically personal portraits which > continue to be accepted as art have some aspect of "timelessness". > Kate Sullivan > > > > ************** > Check all of your email inboxes from anywhere on the web. > Try the new Email Toolbar now! > (http://toolbar.aol.com/mail/download.html?ncid=txtlnkusdown00000027) > > > > -- > > > ____________________________________________ Saul Ostrow | Visual Arts & Technologies Environment Chair, Sculpture Voice: 216-421-7927 | [email protected] | www.cia.edu<http://www.cia.edu/> The Cleveland Institute of Art | 11141 East Boulevard, Cleveland, OH 44106 ____________________________________________ > > Saul Ostrow | Visual Arts & Technologies Environment Chair, Sculpture > > Voice: 216-421-7927 | [email protected] | www.cia.edu<http:// > www.cia.edu/> > > The Cleveland Institute of Art | 11141 East Boulevard, Cleveland, > OH 44106 --
