tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1114243137755333505.post5873476658626998993..comments2023-09-29T01:02:20.508-07:00Comments on Tony Chong: Chong's Law and HierarchyTony Chonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17108981383918330923noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1114243137755333505.post-58527611575038610422009-08-20T07:33:51.680-07:002009-08-20T07:33:51.680-07:00Thanks for posting this alongside your shot of the...Thanks for posting this alongside your shot of the YF-23. Here's a corollary for you based on your picture. <br /><br />The more abstract the picture, the less viseral the reaction but the more cerebral. We react viserally because we emphasize physically with an object. When the view of the object becomes more abstracted, we switch to a different part of our brains to appreciate it. At a guess, some part of the left side of the brain lights up for a viseral impact while the right side lights up for an artistic impact. That's not to say one impact is more or less intense than the other, but they do engage the viewer differently.LinChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09113762158392906559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1114243137755333505.post-82582995168887355792009-08-19T12:25:43.174-07:002009-08-19T12:25:43.174-07:00It's too bad you can't argue your hierarch...It's too bad you can't argue your hierarchy with Orson Wells, who insisted that the development of technicolor ruined the movies. (He never shot his own projects in color; the producers of "Moonlighting" even enticed him to film one of their episodes by promising him he could do a sequence in B+W.) (In my opinion, the meeting of John Dillanger with the infamous "woman in red" loses something without the visceral scarlet hue.)<br />I, myself had this same argument (about the hierarchy of art, and the impact of words over pictures) with Betty Butts, (a well known sculptress whose best work resides in the Indian Museum near...Fort Dixon(?) Somewhere around Oklahoma I think.) <br />Betty's heirarchy of art goes like this: <br />Music is the purest art form, then Dance, Sculpture/carving, (models and mobiles included) [one NEVER confused sculpture with carving in Betty's presence], then mosaics and stained glass and collage, then painting, then sketches, then poetry, then prose. (Of course, as a novelist, I disagreed.) (I don't know where she placed movies as a whole, if she even considered them art --she did not consider either comic books or crafts (whether knitting or candle sculpture or even graphic art renderings for ads and commercials) to be art.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1114243137755333505.post-37853466555131101692009-08-18T22:31:22.945-07:002009-08-18T22:31:22.945-07:00Mike asked me to post this for him as he couldn...Mike asked me to post this for him as he couldn't get it to take:<br />"Beautifully written, and right on target! Aviation artists, although working in only two dimensions, go through a very similar process of "learning the curves" while executing detail drawings of the aircraft we paint. One very well-known artist insists on slowly running his hand over every reachable surface and contour of an airplane he is going to paint to better sense the subtleties of the 3-dimensional structure to be depicted. (His wife once commented she was just glad he didn't paint pictures of women!) Terrific article in AIR and SPACE incidentally."<br />Mike MachatTony Chonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17108981383918330923noreply@blogger.com