Posted by Erol Abit on February 03, 1999 at 07:42:48:
In Reply to: Re: Religions or east&west? posted by Steve Price on February 03, 1999 at 07:03:20:
: Dear Folks,
: I agree with much of what Sophia Gates has to say here, but I do think she missed the ball on a few points.
: 1. Our ability to see the landscape spread out below us from an airplane is a pretty recent development, and probably doesn't figure very strongly in the western artistic tradition.
: 2. Westerners did weave rugs (Spain and France, in particular), and those rugs were no more likely to depict humans than rugs woven in the orient.
: Regards,
: Steve Price
Dear Steve,
Are we sitting in front of computers at the sime time? Whenever I am typing to post my message, you are posting just before me. Now your post changed my idea. But I wonder those Spain and France rugs were mostly copy rugs from eastern rugs as in the case of American Indian rugs as I learned on these boards. If so, thoughts behind on those rugs are eastern thoughts.
Regards,
Erol