Mark in Paris[Purist]
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That's the center of their discussion
Apr 02, 2017,10:31 AM
It is a matter of taste and not an objective issue.
What is an aesthetical standard at one time may change at another time. Hence, what was true at one time (proportions, what kind of patterns match together and which one don't etc...) can be inaccurate later.
When we talk about "flaws", it is relative to a specific standard.
One example: colours combinations
Italians wear colourful clothes with very fine taste. At other periods of time, in other countries it may not have been so. Usually, in a more classical version, it was 1 or 2 colours at the maximum. It is not so since a few years.
Another example: pattern associations.
No pees with squares. Since a few years, the fashion has changed and there are much more appealing combinations. Today we can have nearly everything at the same time. As long as it is done the nice way.The "nice way" is regarding the standards of a specific time.
Hence, fonts associations, colors, sizes are all elements that evolve from a period to the other. Thus, why we say and why Kari says it is subjective, especially when on such forum we have people from different age and living in different regions of the world.
For instance, I like 1970's decoration style and I like the Art deco interior colors and style as well. I can discuss and share with people who have the same approach but the beginning of the differences starts when I talk with people who are shaped by other periods of time, because of their age or because of the experience, education (in the cultural sense) they know. This doesn't make the Art Deco or 1970's style better than another. We can talk of significant changes, originality etc... but it is irrelevant to say that 1990's is better or worse than the late 1890 period.
That's what people may not understand easily at first.
We all have our favorite and it is nice discussing our tastes as long as we can take that aspect into account.
We don't talk about this because of forum rules, as you keep on refering too as if it was censorship, it is just trying to open new ways of seeing things, trying, encouraging to have a different point of view.
Not being able to say that we like a watch because people judge what is good taste or not, that's a kind of censorship.
That doesn't mean that everything works but that there may be much more than one thinks.
And especially not being so sure of our own taste as a reference.
Best, Mark