Smetana's Moldau,certainly is gravity oriented
mando
On May 10, 2009, at 8:49 AM, William Conger wrote:
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
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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
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