Black and White

Art is always capturing the beauty in contrast.

Artistic periods swipe away the dogma of analytical rhetoric and theory to deliver the juxtaposition. The old seems to make way for the new. This evolution we call modernity. Though, we live for classic, timeless beauty that never fades away, like good-old BOLD contrast.

Too many words for such a simple complex?

It's fine. That's what the scholars do, all day.

Claude Perrault, an important architect for French Classical architecture, discussed in detail the nuances of classical architecture. As a revered physician and a scholar of the 17th century he was tasked with the translation of Vitruvius' De architectura.

They were all about the details in classical antiquity. We call them nerds, now.

Perrault did much to establish the qualities of classical balance and order in French Renaissance architecture. [: Bibliography Claude Perrault. Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th Edition, 2020]

He retired from architecture and made observations in a treatise written on sound. He noted the importance of vibration on consonance and dissonance. His study De la Musique des Anciens (Oevres diverses de Physique et de Mecanique) discussed how the combination of different notes make up harmony.

It is so important to music, the idea of contrasting sounds.

Black and white epitomize contrast. You can almost see the vibration.

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