Dear Eduardo
Again, thank you. I am currently reading of Leonardo's notebooks. It
is very interesting how he repeatedly criticises the men of letters in
favour of experiential knowledge and then goes on to acquire the very
knowledge he has criticised. And again water was at the heart of his
understanding and strategy of engaging the world - meandering around an
problem, and then dissolving it.
Best regards
David
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On 25 Jan 2005, at 09:41, Eduardo Corte Real wrote:
> Dear David:
>
> Thanks for your kind words. I'll keep posting. There are other
> historical
> matters interesting about this thread like Alberti's Ethical position
> or
> Naturalistic drawing influencing the taxonomy framework produced by
> Karl
> Von Linee and of course, Darwinism.
> As for other founding myth for drawing we can acount the birth of Venus
> (water again). She is the result of the slaughter of the Sky (Uranus)
> by
> his son, the Time (Chronos). Uranus sperm fertilizes one last time the
> Earth (Gaia) and from the foam of the water emerges Venus, the godess
> of
> atraction. So atraction exists in the realm of time over earth but she
> is
> generated by prior forces.
> Vitruvius on his tricotomy for architecture Utilitas, Firmitas and
> Venustas
> places what we call today drawing among the last. Scaenography,
> Orthography
> and Icnography, are the operational ways of assuring all sub
> cathegories
> inside Venustas.
> Creating architecture is the utmost expression of facing environment re
> creating it. The natural beauty and perfection that Nature shows by the
> action upon us of the laws of atraction can, only be achieved, on the
> construction of the artificial world, by the combined use of those kind
> of "graphies".
>
> Water, is, again, the oblivion, the unorganised primeval soop on the
> world
> whithout the first principle of order: Time.
>
> Best,
>
> Eduardo
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