WCCA2020 – XIII World Congress on Communication and Arts
Abstract. It is difficult to imagine modern life without the binary system, but really difficult is to imagine the binary language for thousands of years being used to interpret and represent the Universe.
As everything can be seen and expressed in these terms, this concept applied to the arts generated beautiful works that explored the balance between chiaroscuro, full and empty, solid and liquid, surface and depth.
There are ancient graphic representations of duality such as Heaven (spherical) and Earth (square), nature (wind and thunder, lake and mountain); climate (dryness and humidity, heat and cold) organism (hands, belly, ear, head), animals (horses, cows, sheep, pigs), symbols (mandalas, Pythagorean magic squares 3x3, 4x4, 9x9), families (parents and descent), mathematics, body movements (trimming, deflecting, pressing, pulling), cardinal points, images of peace, progress, darkness and return, among many other things.
This is part of the timeless knowledge of the I Ching, the Book of Changes.
David Hruodbeorth
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