Saturday, January 26, 2013

Is ornament a crime?


After reading Ornament and Crime by Adolf Loos, I actually agree to the author that ornament can devalue things. However, I think that ornament can make thing becomes beautiful but artificially beauty. It destroys the natural beauty of the object. I completely agree to the tattoo example that tattoo on body doesn’t really make it becomes more valuable but it devalue it. It might be because of the way our social is formed. It is because of the stereotype that we created. As I mention earlier in the last post that I love modernism with the reason that it is so pure. Some people make think that it has no aesthetic sense at all. I would disagree to this thought and agree to the reading ornament and crime. I think that by having decoration into the object can make it becomes beautiful which it give sense of aesthetic however, without having any decoration and bring out the beauty of the material it is the greater sense of aesthetic. I believe that everything that nature gives us has its own beauty. I was discussing earlier to my friends, they disagree with me and the reading that the great sense of beauty can comes with the object itself without adding on any ornaments in to it with the reason that the skilled people would have no jobs and those skilled cannot be passed on to the next generation. I completely disagree with that. To bring the beauty of nature is indeed need to take a lot of skills and precision. A diamond that isn’t polished looks like only a piece of normal gemstone. It needs a highly skill to cut it into a shape of diamond as we see. This skill is indeed a skill that could bring out the beauty of nature. Another example in architecture, Barcelona pavilion, it is a great modern art. Inside of it has beautiful pieces of marble take part as walls of the pavilion. Those walls cannot be done with any skilled workers and cannot be done by the one who discover that piece of marble. Those pieces of marble on the brown wall come from the same gigantic piece of marble. If that piece of marble was cut into the different direction, the pattern on the marble might not be as great as the way it is. 

a picture of Barcelona Pavilion and a marble wall

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