William wrote:

> If you had to choose, do you think visual art is more like speech or like
writing?  Why?

Top of my head: writing. Both are visual stimuli that call for cognitive
interpretation of graphical marks of one kind or other and they are both
typically flat. Sculpture is probably a tad more like speech, being three
dimensional (sound fills up space) and is fully experienced in time as your
walk around the piece (at least more so than a painting). Beyond that, the
modes diverge greatly.

Ah, I see that Saul and I have almost diametrically opposite responses.


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Michael Brady

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