yes. wc
________________________________ From: armando baeza <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: armando baeza <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, May 9, 2009 10:20:13 PM Subject: Re: Architecture and Philosophy is it possible to fully subsume the objective stuff of colors? mando On May 9, 2009, at 5:13 PM, William Conger wrote: > So when are you going to give up the descriptive figure drawing and set those > wonderful compositions free from servitude to the figure/object ? Or fully > subsume the objective stuff? > wc > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Michael Brady <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Saturday, May 9, 2009 12:53:31 PM > Subject: Re: Architecture and Philosophy > > On May 6, 2009, at 10:51 PM, Frances Kelly wrote: > >> My task in wrestling with this thorn is to find out if it is possible to >> frame a philosophic theory of architecture. > > Hercules Wrestles with the Thorn, one of the metopes on the Parthenon that > Pericles overruled. <g> > > But, as it happens, I've been reshaping my front, side, and back yards, > mainly to correct some problems with the drainage, to put in new flower beds, > and to get rid of a lot of chickweeds and other pesksy unwanted green stuff > growing where the grass should be. > > In any event, I have "sculpted" my yard by making great sweeping arcs and > ogees, small shifts in the ground level to promote drainage, which leaves > behind these ground "marks." As I was planning it, I realized that I was > visualizing it almost exactly in terms of the large abstract forms I use in > my paintings. So I continued in that direction and kept those painting shapes > in mind. As a further cross-connection between the land-work and my art-work, > when I am painting these shapes, I think simultaneously that they resemble > landforms as seen from the air, or in a map, and also that I don't merely > "paint" them as a manual act similar to handwriting (which is a fluid, almost > non-tactile or non-tangible laying down of "words") but that I "carve" and > "mold" them, reworking them with scumbling that is akin to dressing the > marble or such or carving a wood block for a print. > > Here are some paintings: > > http://michaelbradydesign.com/PhotoAlbums/album_1241367593/ > http://michaelbradydesign.com/PhotoAlbums/album_1241368711/ > http://michaelbradydesign.com/PhotoAlbums/album_1241371199/ > > > | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | > Michael Brady > [email protected]
