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- From: val@news.ccutah.edu (Val Kartchner)
- Subject: Re: Who uses Ada??
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 00:32:34 GMT
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- rlk@VisiCom.COM (Bob Kitzberger) writes:
- : p.s. Does painting on oil and canvas limit an artist's expressive power,
- : or does it provide focus for their expression? Michaelangelo's
- : Sistine Chapel and Chagall's ceiling of the Paris Opera show what
- : genius can do when constrained by his medium (i.e. painting on a
- : ceiling). Various works by uncsonstrained contemporary artists
- : show what kind of horrid stuff can result when you impose no
- : limitations at all.
-
- There are many types of art; some better than painting, some worse. But
- isn't there a Congressional mandate about requiring all art to be done
- with paint no matter what is painted on? Since each eye can only see a
- two dimensional image, aren't all art forms equivalent. (Perhaps there is
- an analogy here.)
-
- I know that Paul A. Strassmann (Director of Defense Information) thinks
- that ALL (software as) art should be done away with. Does this mean
- that creativity in software design is bad? Perhaps there should be two
- classes of programmers: software engineers who make functional but dull
- software, and software architects who design software systems with
- creativity and art.
-
- -=:[ VAL ]:=-
-
- p.s.: I've seen some horrible paintings (real and analogous).
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