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> when all your cars and buildings are super-colorful, they clash. They become garish and ugly and screaming for attention. This is not necessarily the case. M
by mostlylurks 4y ago
> when all your cars and buildings are super-colorful, they clash. They become garish and ugly and screaming for attention.
This is not necessarily the case. Many places in places like Iceland, Norway, Greenland, and to a lesser extent the rest of the nordic countries and some others, like the netherlands, have very colorful buildings, where each building is a different vibrant color, but nevertheless everything fits together nicely, without becoming "garish and ugly and screaming for attention", instead looking quite humble and cozy.
- trgn 4y agoJust look at the US too. Charleston, New Orleans, ... Victorian architecture in general. Lush, but not garish. The idea that bright colors are offensive to taste is just wrong. It's how they are applied. And that's what the problem of modernism has been. Modernism is the man internalizing the logic of the machine. It is easier, from a machine perspective, to commoditize and mass market flat neutral colors so therefore it is better. It is truly willful submission. The scary part is that we have been doing it so many generations now, that are sense of aesthetics has been completely atrophied.
- wizofaus 4y agoMuch of Alsace too, e.g. Colmar: https://upload.travelawaits.com/ta/uploads/2021/04/fcaa4d555b319f0d86681a08fa689fcaa4d.jpg https://upload.travelawaits.com/ta/uploads/2021/04/fcaa4d555... I'd agree they do sort of "clash", but I'd take that over this any day: https://imageio.forbes.com/specials-images/imageserve/1184449479/0x0.jpg?format=jpg&width=1200 https://imageio.forbes.com/specials-images/imageserve/118444... Mind you, even somewhere like Venice is relatively mono-chrome (just not grey), but still striking in a way modern housing developments never are.