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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