Posted by d on February 28, 2002 at 15:15:34:Two centuries past, there were many debates among artists and their patrons as to whether, as a horse galloped, there came a point when all four feet were off the ground.
Eventually questions such as this were answered by the time-lapse photography of Muybridge.
The real question was whether a painting could, or should, depict movement.Observing the variety of proposals for constructions in the World Trade Center site, I sense a similar restlessness in architects of today: the twisting, striving semi-organic forms seem to evoke those long-ago efforts to depict movement in a static material.
I suppose there is also an effort at calligraphy, or gesture, which similarly echoes the romantic movements of the nineteenth century.
But, in toto, the designs seem to me curiously out of date.
For it seems likely that we are in tumultuous times, when the job of the architect will again become to convey stability, not movement.
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