Quoting Krimel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [Krimel] > More on the literary allusions later. But artless? Heartless? This is the > attitude that defies understanding. Technology has done nothing but enhance > art since the invention of paint and the drum. Technology created art. In > the past century whole new forms of art evolved and old forms were > revitalized; from film to synthesizers. I recently went to a local art > festival and was astonished at some of the work. Photographers seemed to > have discovered Photoshop since my last visit to and art show. Glass > sculptures, ceramics, textiles and traditional painting styles were all > enhanced and showed evidence of the adoption of technology both in the > mediums of expression and their symbolic representations.
Progress in art? Not in my book. Beauty transcends time. It belies our assumptions of growth and progress. Are our buildings more beautiful than the Parthenon? Are our churches more beautiful than Chartes? Are our dishes more beautiful than Greek vases? Are our musical compositions more beautiful than Mozart's? Beauty doesnt evolve and improve with time. The animal paintings by unknown early humans in the caves of Lascaux have never been surpassed. Anyway, why beauty shows up in the equations of physics has never been explained by those who reduce everything to quantum fluctuations. ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
