Saturday, November 24, 2018

Technology and Art

I like technology because it represents control and order in a chaotic universe.

I like art because it represents a finer and more complex control and order in a chaotic universe. 

Both, when successful, are beautiful.

3 comments:

  1. You think art is more complex than technology? Most art is pretty simplistic, really, even the stuff by the great ones.

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  2. It’s a difficult question, hard to prove.

    But I *feel* that, for example, a Blue Nude by Matisse, though it looks really simple, has harmonies which are very complex.

    It’s what makes great art different from most art.

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  3. Well, you know, something by Matisse has got more going on than, say, a Thomas Kinkade painting... I'm just not sure it has the complexity of technology, compare that Blue Nude to, say, the super collider in Switzerland. That's not a question of its value, of course, and art is certainly more accessible.

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