The human figure had the same essence five thousand years ago as today.
but may be represented in endless ways. So are colors and form.
Actually,
all things of nature are timeless, although evolving and also changing.
In reference to art, timelessness is preferable to the narrow parochial.
mando
On Apr 25, 2009, at 6:47 PM, Saul Ostrow wrote:
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
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