On 01/03/2011 8:22 PM, nemesis wrote:
> Stephen escreveu:
>
> That's not what I see in general: compare our angular, plain and boring
> architecture engineered with the help of CAD software with that from the
> baroque period;

I've yet to see a baroque building that was built quicker, safer or 
cheaper than modern buildings. If you want beauty in modern buildings 
what about St Mary Axe, London, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, the Pompidou 
Centre Paris? I could go on.

But I sympathise with your feelings.

> Mozart symphonies to trance music made with computers;

No arguments there but then I like few modern composers.

> Dickens manuscripts to Dan Brown writing in Word with spell checker and
> still getting it wrong...
>

Dickens is full of mistakes, characters and sub plots disappearing 
without reason. Trollop was the same and as for Mrs Hendry Wood, enough 
said.
Actually what you are seeing in modern authors is intellectual laziness.

> You may be a renascentist living nowadays and making the most out of
> your superior tools, but most are not. ;)
>

You got me there, what is a renascentist?

>>
>> You could always ask David Hockney.
>
> ah, I read that argument of his before. He seems to believe it
> impossible for someone to paint photorealistic paintings akin to those
> of the old masters, even in the face of plenty of evidence by any
> competent arts student to the contrary. I can understand him feeling
> that way for not knowing how to paint, though. :)
>

I've never heard of Hockney being accused of photorealism. But he is 
considered by many to be a great artist and he, in his old age, has been 
using electronic media.

-- 
Regards
     Stephen

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