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Humans, Nature and Birds |
From Room 6: Science Art as Its Own Category |
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to represent a very real set of biologically significant relationships--a vocal exchange between parents and chicks, with the vocalizations depicted as well. s Perhaps, then the painting captures an auditory experience and presents it visually. Plate 42 includes a sonogram--that is, the notation used in sound spectrographs. It is possible, reading the birds from left to right, to determine the volume, intensity, degree of trilling, and degree of shrillness of their voices by the size, shape, and direction of the protruding tongues, seen by some as stylized exclamation points or arrows.[13] Klee’s painting preceded the development of the sonogram--a scientifically representative “Twittering Machine”--by forty years. <--Return to Examples from the Book |
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