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Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an insect so tiny that the naked eye sees only the barest speck and to discover that nevertheless it is sculpted and articulated and striped with the same care and imagination...
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Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.
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Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kinds of items in a given arrangement.
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Rudolf Arnheim
Born:
July 15, 1904
Died:
June 9, 2007
(aged 102)
Bio:
Rudolf Arnheim was a German-born author, art and film theorist, and perceptual psychologist. He learned Gestalt psychology from studying under Max Wertheimer and Wolfgang Köhler at the University of Berlin and applied it to art.
Known for:
Visual thinking (1969)
Art and visual perception (1954)
Film as art (1957)
The dynamics of architectural form (1977)
The power of the center (1982)
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