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Creation vs. Illustration
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04.21.09Wahyanonefamily Foundation’s latest endowment: geometric ground plan and integrity in Knox Martin’s artKnox's art can be traced back to the European tradition, which in turn inherits from ancient Egyptian and Greek Art, whereby a composition is built from the ground up, with the adoption of a geometric ground plan. Here I am trying to use curves and straights to indicate how that device works in the superb compositions of some of the greatest European Alpha Seers in the past. The constructions shown in the diagrams below are self-evident and self- explanatory enough,-- so any further thesis from me on this topic will be counter- productive. Additional theories or analysis can inevitably reinforce ...
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04.21.09WAHYANONEFAMILY FOUNDATION’S LATEST ENDOWMENT: 8 fine prints from the great Knox MartinKnox's art can be traced back to the European tradition, which in turn inherits from ancient Egyptian and Greek Art, whereby a composition is built from the ground up, with the adoption of a geometric ground plan. Here I am trying to use curves and straights to indicate how that device works in the superb compositions of some of the greatest European Alpha Seers in the past. The constructions shown in the diagrams below are self-evident and self- explanatory enough,-- so any further thesis from me on this topic will be counter- productive. Additional theories or analysis can inevitably reinforce ...
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04.17.09REPLY TO WAHYANONEFAMILY FOUNDATION C.E.O. MONTY F.Dear Monty, Your beautiful questions are answered as follows: first off, such a connotation as "concept in creation" is an imaginery event. There is no reality to it. The postmodernists and all the "ism" folks (impressionism, expressionism, pointilism, photo-realism, Pop art, Op art) are dead wrong precisely along that line of thinking. It is easy to fall into that trap because man have a well developed brain with the associative movement of the mind. The mind is not a thing but an electrical current-induced movement. It has a life of its own, computer like. This movement is pretty much quite independent of the ...
