does colorful writing still exist?
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today. One was all color photographs.
The other was of drawings with the colors inked in.
For our purposes, the book of colored drawings was more clear and more
useful.
The photographs in the other book were cluttered. Too much unneccessary
background texture. Not as visually readable.
Simple proved to be best.
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norton shawn
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Karl Sigerist Sr.
words, we all agreed.
and then somehow a single page #282 to be exact, torn out of a book called
"Picturesque Europe" came accross my PC desk. The book was written sometimes
in 1850 thus long before color pictures existed a black and white pencil
drawing of the Rhinefalls close to Schaffhausen Switzerland was printed on
that same page.
What struck me was the description what the writer could see, and the reader
not so he attempted to accurately describe the wonder he saw.
the Quote is taken out ("Modern Painters", vol. i.,p.343).and reads as
follows:
"Stand besides the fall of Schaffhausen on the north side, where the rapids
are long, and watch how the vault of water first bends unbroken, in pure,
polished velocity, over the arching rocks on the brow of the cataract,
covering them with a dome of crystal twenty feet thick, so swift that its
motion is unseen exept when a foam-globe from above darts over it like a
falling star; and how the trees are lighted above it under all their leaves
at the instant that it breaks into foam, and all the hollows of that foam
burn with green fire like so much shattering chrysoprase; and how, ever and
anon, startling you with its white flash, a jet of spray leaps hissing out
of the fall like a rocket, bursting in the wind and driven away like dust,
filling the air with light; and how, through the curdling wreath of the
restless, crashing abyss below, the blue of the water, paled by the foam in
its body, shows purer than the sky through white rain-clouds; while the
shuddring iris stoops in tremulous stillness over all, fading and flushing
alternately through the choking spray and shattered sunshine, hiding itself
at last among the thick golden leaves which toss to and fro in sympathy with
the wild water, their dripping masses lifted at intervals, like sheaves of
loaded corn, by some stronger gush from the cataract, and bowed again upon
the mossy rocks as its roar dies away: the dew gushing from their thick
branches through drooping clusters of emerald herbage, and sparkling in
white threads along the dark rocks of the shore, feeding the lichens which
chase and checker them with gold and silver"
End Quote:
All we need now with the foto is: "Rhine Fall by Schaffhausen".
All this writing ability lost because a "color picture" does not need a
thousand words.
We gained and lost.
Karl,
Nostalgic for the moment
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Karl Sigerist Sr.
srk...@home.com
ERIKA
The picturesque writing of the river Rhine's birthplace in
Schaffhausen/Switzerland was so beautiful. I printed it...to keep and
remember.
I was 10 years old, when I saw that place with my parents for the first
and last time.
And I grew up, living " am Rhein".
I hope , language of such description will not cease, because we need
the words more than eyes to really "understand" such power and beauty.
Our eyes sweep over a whole landscape...
words bring it to life in every minute detail,,,,, in form...in
colour...in sound.
Thank you, Karl..
Erika
Imagination, not invention, is the
supreme master of art as of Life.
...............{Joseph Conrad}........
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red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet.
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norton s., chromaticist
ERIKA
something like this, with the comment: "This is 'fine writing.' Avoid
it."
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EAH
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Ed, that proves, not all Prof's can be trusted to know what they are
talking about...."Fine writing" should not be avoided, but encouraged.
Ed Hatcher
My creative writing prof once returned an item of mine that was
something like this, with the comment: "This is 'fine writing.' Avoid
it."
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EAH
Otium cum dignitate
Ed Hatcher
>
> My creative writing prof once returned an item of mine that was
> something like this, with the comment: "This is 'fine writing.' Avoid
> it."
> --
> EAH
>
> Ed, that proves, not all Prof's can be trusted to know what they are
> talking about...."Fine writing" should not be avoided, but encouraged.
>
> Erika
>
> Imagination, not invention, is the
> supreme master of art as of Life.
> ...............{Joseph Conrad}........
No, GOOD writing should be encouraged.
FINE writing, or purple prose, perhaps not easily detected as a second
language, should be banned, and usually is by good editors. Check
references to same in Strunk and other such style arbitors. Mark Twain
has a magnificent treatment of the subject in his essay on James
Fennimore Cooper, who was matchless for his use of the fifty cent word
over the two bit word, the use of three words when one would suffice and
the sprinkling of adjectives thick enough to make you sneeze.
The great writers don't blather. Eschew verbiage, to quote Strunk.
Or, as Twain once said about editing out those purple passages we all
like so well: "Murder your darlings."
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pictures existed."
Not too long, actually, before the struggle to attain them had begun.
By the 1860's ... James Clerk Maxwell, Thomas Sutton and Ducas du Hauron
were all experimenting with trichromatic processes.
The results of course were nothing such as we've been accustomed to
since the 1930's with the Kodak Company's introduction of Kodachrome ...
but that outcome was inevitable.
Wherever there's a quest or the possibility of it, Man will be questing.
Our Science is always the progress report of our voyages from the known
world into the as yet unknown.
Whatever it may be, if we think that it might be there, we will go to
where we think it is.
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norton shawn. resident encyclopedist