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Showing posts with label Greek. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Greek. Show all posts

Friday, 24 July 2015

Eminently Triangle

 "But if cattle or lions had hands, so as to paint with their hands and produce works of art as men do, they would paint their gods and give them bodies in form like their own—horses like horses, cattle like cattle."
Xenophanes, fragments 6, c.a. 580 BC

Wobbe Alkema - Composition - 1921

Oskar Donau - Sonnenrad - 1918
via Peter Weibel

Gerardo Dottori - Paese umbro - 1932

“A triangle, if it could speak, would likewise say that God is eminently triangle, and a circle that God’s nature is eminently circular” 
Baruch Spinoza, Letter 56
quoted by Yitzhak Y. Melamed, Spinoza’s Anti-Humanism: An Outline

Thursday, 26 March 2015

Move the world

"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world."
Archimedes 

Koloman Moser - Sideboard and Fireplace for Moser’s Guest Room - 1902

Ivo Pannaggi - Casa Zampini - 1925 

Friedrich Kiesler - City in Space - 1925