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Leonard Koren’s book “Wabi Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets and Philosophers" pin/193725221450197898/activity
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there are 9 basic principles that underlie japanese art they are called aesthetics, or concepts that answer the question: what is art? the 9 aesthetics are: wabi-sabi (imperfect), miyabi (elegance, ) shibui (subtle,) Iki (originality), jo-ha-kyu (slow, accelerate, end), yugen (mysterious), geido (discipline and ethics,) enso (the void), kawaii (cute.) pinned from Leslie Miller/Ruby Serben.
Kintsugi, The Japanese Art of Fixing Broken Pottery With Gold
Japanese art of Kintsugi follows a different philosophy. Rather than disguising the breakage, kintsugi restores the broken item incorporating the damage into the aesthetic of the restored item, making it part of the object’s history. Kintsugi uses lacquer resin mixed with powdered gold, silver, platinum, copper or bronze, resulting into something more beautiful than the original.
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Yohji Yamamoto on imperfections..."I think perfection is ugly, somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion." To me the evidence of the human hand is what marks good design.
HISTORY OF IDEAS - Wabi-sabi
At the heart of Japanese philosophy and wisdom lies a concept called ‘wabi-sabi’; a term which denotes a commitment to the everyday, the melancholic, the som...