What about music? I suppose there's an implicit high =sky, low= ground aspect. So gravity is king, after all. Really? Or do the arts pretend to escape it? WC
________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2009 9:30:23 AM Subject: Re: Architecture and Philosophy In a message dated 5/9/2009 11:51:06 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Yep! Luis is right. But architecture has a master it must always heed: Gravity. What natural law/s limits all the other arts? WC True William, that is why structural engineering is essential to architecture. Gravity in other arts: Dancing is also limited by gravity, and in classical styles the appearance of effortless leaping and lifting is a sign of expertise. Modern dance can accentuate the heavy move or throw in body harnesses to simulate weightlessness. This latter technique is quite often also used in cinema (kung fu movies) such as "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon" ;-) Sculpture, the larger the scale the more gravity affects it requiring structural engineering as in architecture. Paintings and drawings are also influenced by gravity. Your abstractions have an up and down that is reference to the horizon line that exists because of our body's perception of the ground plane - we stand on the earth - gravity. Mando, I also do non-objective paintings and they always have a definitive orientation - I get extremely annoyed if I see one of them rotated wrongly. Luis Fontanills Architect Miami/Dade Counties, Florida **************Recession-proof vacation ideas. Find free things to do in the U.S. (http://travel.aol.com/travel-ideas/domestic/national-tourism-week?ncid=emlcntustrav00000002)
