[Jewelry making - Article 00719] - Re: [Orchid] Diamond cuts technicals

[leonid surpin]

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>     The notion that there's something wrong with a square shape is most
>     curious - even mystifying. 

    As I recall I described square shape as dull and boring and it did
    imply that is would be wrong for a designer to use it, unless a
    specific reason exist. This is quite different from your
    characterization that "there is something wrong with square shape". 

>     A designer who can't work with a square shape is no designer at
>     all, I'd say. 

    I guess I can post my bio, but that would be like male locker room
    contest approach. Instead I would like to point out that Ad Hominem
    attacks do not advance the argument. If you can offer some evidence 
of
    wide spread use of the square shape in Art and Architecture, that
    would be a valid point towards your position. 

>     For myself, I'd say you could throw out a concept (sticks, cheese,
>     astronomy, mud) and I could make something with it. 

    This point totally escapes me. Can you elaborate further? 

>     Design is unlimited unless the designer is limited 

    The whole point of designer education is to limit and to temper
    unbridled enthusiasm of a beginner by a self-imposed constrains
    resulting from a well structured exposure to the philosophical
    underpinnings of artistic expression. 

>     The princess cut is here to stay - deal with it 

    As are the cockroaches. But it does not mean that we have to retire
    all the exterminators. 

Leonid Surpin.
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