JP 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Movable Type, Meiji Period, Onnagata
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Geometric organization of form (sharp, precise, definite shapes and edges) Purity makes its expression richer is intolerant of ambiguity and contradiction. Organic organization of form (soft, vague shapes and edges) Even though japanese gardens are not symmetrical, you still get a sense of balance and ease from. You can still get balance if things are not symmetrical. From a bird"s-eye view, you can see that japanese gardens are symmetrical; they wanted it to be symmetrical in 3 different dimensions. During the renaissance, westerns put roman ruins in landscape paintings as they felt that they owed their culture to the romans and greeks; these landscape paintings are a way of paying homage to the romans and the greeks. Moss gardens, rock gardens, and snow gardens are all influenced by the taoist tradition of embracing and accepting nature. Western gardens represent the intrinsic symmetry in nature, whereas japanese gardens fetishize the specific manifestations of imperfection in nature them.
