what the heck is art ?

Knight plays chess with Death, a famous scene from a Bergman film. Famed 'art house' director, Ingmar Bergman died recently . He was the kind of director that made the culturati go week in the knees -the crowd that stared at a canvas painted in single color in deep admiration was the crowd that went ga-ga over his films. He is the hero of that peculiar creature of our times -the wannabe, the pseudo, the pretend-intellectual who finds the incomprehensible to be profound, the obscure to be enlightening and the disgusting to be ennobling. Philipe Martinet- I think the first one I saw was Persona. I was shocked. You never come out unscathed from a Bergman film. It shakes you, it tosses and turns you, tears your certainties apart, stronger, better than any psychoanalysis . I was so thrilled that I went immediately to see the following one. And then all the others followed, compulsively---- (From an article in the Hindustan Times print editon, Delhi, 4th August, 2007 by Philippe Ma

What a bloody marvelous painting, part 10

Joseph Zbukvic makes watercolors one could kill for - click for a larger image Unfortunately, I do not yet know the name of this work. A few details- His signature is a piece of work too! Compare and contrast- Our Great Cheese* also produce works one could kill for - for a different reason: A work by the mahan * talent Jogen Chowdhury depicting who knows what. Nevertheless, it must be great. Just shut up and believe. *The colorful Indian language translator- Great Cheese - a play on the Hindi expression ' mahan cheez ', literally a great thing or a great person , sarcastically speaking . Mahan -great

Explanation found for Leonardo Da Vinci's tree rule?

PhysOrg - More than 500 years ago, Leonardo da Vinci observed a particular relationship between the size of a tree’s trunk and the size of its branches . Specifically, the combined cross-sectional areas of a tree’s daughter branches are equal to the cross-sectional area of the mother branch. However, da Vinci didn’t know why tree branching followed this rule, and few explanations have been proposed since then. But now in a new study, physicist Christophe Eloy from Aix-Marseille University in Aix-en-Provence, France, has shown that this tree structure may be optimal for enabling trees to resist wind-induced stresses. According to the 'young investigator' Rizwan Aratsu - I tested ten species of trees in the vicinity of Princeton, New Jersey, to see if they do indeed adhere to the rule of conservation as asserted by the Italian master and those who followed him. Based on my review of the literature, I expected to find that trees would either conserve area or not depen

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