2011年9月15日星期四
The Butterfly Effect A Symbol With Wings
Butterflies are a quaint creation: often dismissed in passing as beautiful things that we use to adorn juvenile girls birthday cards, its easy to forget just how fascinating they can be. With a life wheel consisting of four parts, butterflies may only live up to a annual at the most but they bring an end to ... an unbelievable excursion distinctive to their species.
As a idea within the arts, the butterfly really spreads its wings. As with birds, the organisms aptitude to fly provides rich metaphorical material for writers and artists; whatsoever, the relative smallness of the butterfly, its short life span, and its often gorgeous and intricate colouring adds beyond measurement to the butterfly as a metaphorical tool for storytelling. From the visual motif of the butterfly in Tim Burtons gothic fairytale The Corpse Bride to the central theme of butterflies in poems by, among others, William Wordsworth and Robert Frost, the butterfly soars in mediums that tell stories.
An vast catalogue of songs likewise cast the butterfly in a chief character, with musicians catching the transitional stages of a butterflys existence and using namely apt permeate their songs with pathos and symbolism. Massive Attack, Muse and Dolly Parton are surrounded the esteemed artists to reference the butterfly among their song titles and lyrics, meantime Mariah Carey devoted not only her torch anthem ballad Butterfly to the incredible moth yet also the scrapbook of the same label.
Away from these masterpiece forms, butterflies are also renowned in art itself, with visual performances of butterflies encompassing Renaissance painters favor Dossi Dossi, Pop Art master Andy Warhol and contemporary artist Damien Hirst. In terms of art though, the form of the butterfly namely not impeded to sheet, with jewellery makers including popular brand Pandora jewellery recognising the passion people have for butterflies and satisfying this with appropriately popular pieces: the Pandora jewellery split butterfly devise has been remarkably popular with fans who tin let chapter of their butterfly beauty fly aboard to the bracelet of a friend, while manifold charms and handcrafted jewellery featuring the animal are also warmhearted available to butterfly fans.
So, though human creatures may enjoy a longer life span than butterflies, it appears we have one affinity for this particular species for testified by our attempts to deliver the human condition at looking to the butterfly for inspiration lets just cry it the butterfly effect!
订阅:
博文评论 (Atom)
没有评论:
发表评论