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Archer Opteryx
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Message 9 of 32 (424901)
09-29-2007 6:37 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by RAZD
04-01-2007 3:32 PM


God is really only another artist. He made the elephant, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but keeps trying new ideas.
-- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

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Archer Opteryx
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Message 10 of 32 (424906)
09-29-2007 6:57 AM
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04-01-2007 3:32 PM


Creative problems, Creative resolutions
Here's another thought for your Taoist side, RAZD.
An important feature of great art is dynamism. The idea is to make a creative problem for yourself by setting up a tension of some sort in the work. You set opposite forces in conflict--symmetry and assymetry, order and chaos, bright and dark, consonant and dissonant, micro and macro, predictability and surprise, tradition and novelty--then resolve the conflict.
The most powerful resolutions in art are those that find a satisfying place for all the forces that have been set in motion. They are reconciled and integrated in a complete picture.
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Archer
All species are transitional.

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Archer Opteryx
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Message 13 of 32 (424944)
09-29-2007 11:59 AM
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04-01-2007 3:32 PM


They don't know anything about science, but they know what they like.
Life is a work of art. The universe is a work of art.
It's beautiful, RAZD. But the fundies are going to have at least two problems with this.
One: They can't get art into a public school science class.
Two: They know even less about art than they do about science.

Archer
All species are transitional.

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