I just don’t like the new styles, because they simply no longer have anything to do with aesthetics in the positive sense (beauty), but only in the negative sense (ugliness, destructiveness - and the excuses for this are also ugly and destructive).
Gargoyles and Grotesques? not all Olde artistic creations are beautiful, but I appreciate and admire them none-the-less.
Bigger structures… like buildings and cities, are more difficult to hide One’s distaste over… I’m quite un-keen on the design of the UAE cities and states… far too arrogantly-opulent for my more ‘pared down’ tastes.
All Saints Church in Hereford, England, from what I read.
The church was built in the 1300’s but the carving was only noticed when an additional floor was added (for a restaurant, I think) and this was discovered that during the restoration. I wonder if it supposed to tell us something about the church’s priest?.. or perhaps the sculptor was saying he was fucked over by the church?.. or he might have tripped – almost falling to his death – and saw this I’m-fucked-image flash past him? Believing it was a message from God, he felt compelled to carve it?
One does indeed wonder what it was that prompted the carver, in his design of that carving.
Perhaps it was simply a prank, to defile the sanctity of the church that he was hired to help build… I had wanted Alf to reply to my last inquiry to him, before moving forward into that, tho.
Gargoyles and Grotesques are expressions before modern times and therefore fine.
I guess the reasons behind Architecture/Art/Design, change over time/with the passing millennia, centuries, and decades… the natural, being replaced by man-made technological materials.