2014年6月1日星期日

Another Short History of Linguistics (25)

From above discussion we may know that the Chinese people love to summary the main shape of any image and to abstract it into symbol. This tradition may help them to predict the trend of a certain moving things. For instance, in the Louvre Museum a famous statue Venus de Milo missing two arms, it was said very hard to recover them. Many artist have tried plenty solution, but if you have known some Chinese calligraphy, the shape would be different. I have four reasons for the below imagine. First, from internet, we may see, there are so many statues of Venus. Most of them covered one side breast by a hand. It means to say, at that time, people regard that a little bit shy would get better result of the impression of Venus. The second reason is as both arm of the statue disappeared, that means to say, the two hands is very likely joint together. The third reason is, as the sculptor make a perfect ratio of the body, he could be a great artist, and a great artist always do something special or we may say something that can surprise people yet still within the common sense. The fourth reason is that the direction of her sight is every likely consist with her elbow. By this four reasons I suppose the original arms should be either:
or:

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