{"id":3521,"date":"2011-11-24T15:35:08","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T20:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=3521"},"modified":"2011-11-24T15:38:01","modified_gmt":"2011-11-24T20:38:01","slug":"the-echo-of-el-greco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=3521","title":{"rendered":"The Echo of El Greco"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A View of Toledo by El Greco (c1597)<\/p><\/div>\n

A classic example of El Greco’s trademark polyester\/nylon sheen.\u00a0 Things are always a little distorted, too.\u00a0 I’ve often found El Greco’s style to be very modern and impressionistic.\u00a0 Note the shadowiness.\u00a0 Even the shadows have shadows.\u00a0 Although the themes are always religious, as I guess most paintings were back then, his style is quite unique and radical and could even have been painted in our own time.<\/p>\n

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UFO by SvitakovaEva (Deviant Art)<\/p><\/div>\n

“Sheeny”, distorted and shadowy:\u00a0 Is it not the echo of El Greco?\u00a0 I like the simple title, too.\u00a0 The image is simple but potent.\u00a0 In this tiny drop of formula there is river, desert, mountains, sky, clouds and eternal silence.\u00a0 I’ll bet most of us would have just walked past this if we were zooming and browsing around in there.<\/p>\n

I wouldn’t have called this “UFO” although that’s not a bad title as it accentuates the mysteriousness of the image; I would have done something daring and called it “Jet Trail of the Ascension”.\u00a0 Yes, El Greco would have liked that, I think.\u00a0 El Greco had a talent for combining religious themes with far-out, far-outed-ness.<\/p>\n

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View and Plan of Toledo (detail) by El Greco (c. 1610)<\/p><\/div>\n

What exactly is going on there?\u00a0 The top right figure in the “sacred cluster” looks like a ballerina spinning on her head.\u00a0 Like Eva’s fractal, this image is only partially understood like something half hidden in a shadow.\u00a0 And yet there is nothing disappointing about that.<\/p>\n

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Evolving Hologram by DorianoArt (Deviant Art)<\/p><\/div>\n

I found this one El Greco-tesque, too.\u00a0 The polyester sheen and the rushing movement, numerous folds of light.\u00a0 And the square shape in the middle, repeated, echoed in pieces all over.\u00a0 Is there a bottom to this well?\u00a0 Drop your eyes and listen for the splash…<\/p>\n

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Hologram by DorianoArt (DA)<\/p><\/div>\n

The Tornadoes from Toledos;\u00a0 Hologram isn’t bad either.\u00a0 There’s a glowing, fiery, aurora borealis look to this.<\/p>\n

Hey.\u00a0 You don’t suppose this is a flame fractal, do you?\u00a0 Oh man.\u00a0 I gotta check the gallery page to see if it says anything.<\/p>\n

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A screen capture is worth a thousand words<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s a flame.\u00a0 I bookmarked this one before I wrote my recent posting<\/a> suggesting that almost all flame fractals be extinguished.\u00a0 I must not have realized it was one of “those things”.\u00a0 This is like the apotheosis<\/strong> of apophysis<\/strong>.\u00a0 Good art speaks for itself and is more than the sum of it’s genes –or in this case, parameters.<\/p>\n

At least he didn’t make it with Chaotica.\u00a0 Then I’d really look foolish.<\/p>\n

Let’s change the subject:<\/p>\n

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Friendly squid visit at night in Komodo National Park by Nhobgood (Wikipedia)<\/p><\/div>\n

Well this ain’t no flame fractal, for sure.\u00a0 But, look at the ghostly luminescence and the spirally tentacles and the way the animal’s body just slips away into the dark nothingness around it.\u00a0 Isn’t this the sort of creation we could expect if the flame fractal genre develops some more graphical options and parameter choices?\u00a0 I’m not a programmer or even a math person but I think the flame genre has some potential just based on what I see.\u00a0 At the moment it takes some real experimentation to come up with something that hasn’t been done before.<\/p>\n

Hopefully that sort of flame fractal renaissance will come from Thomas (Lyceum) Ludwig’s work with Chaotica<\/a>, which just so happens, as he recently informed me, to be the main reason he started the project.\u00a0 (A new personality would be nice, too.)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Sheeny”, distorted and shadowy: Is it not the echo of El Greco? I like the simple title, too. The image is simple but potent. In this tiny drop of formula there is river, desert, mountains, sky, clouds and eternal silence. 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