Scott McCloud's Unifying Quadrants
I got pretty excited when I saw the following quadrants in Scott McCloud's TED talk on Understanding Comics because it ties together a lot of big ideas.
The first slide of quadrants showed four categories of comics, which he cleverly labelled classicist, animist, formalist, and iconoclast:
But then he pointed out how they correspond to Jung's four subdivisions of human thought: sensation, intuition, thinking, and feeling.
The upper and lower halves correspond to tradition vs. revolution:
The left and right halves to art vs. life:
One diagonal contrasts form and content:
The other contrasts beauty and truth:
Playing around with this, it's interesting to deduce that:
Putting it all together:
Music:
Movies:
Fine Art:
The first slide of quadrants showed four categories of comics, which he cleverly labelled classicist, animist, formalist, and iconoclast:
But then he pointed out how they correspond to Jung's four subdivisions of human thought: sensation, intuition, thinking, and feeling.
The upper and lower halves correspond to tradition vs. revolution:
The left and right halves to art vs. life:
One diagonal contrasts form and content:
The other contrasts beauty and truth:
Playing around with this, it's interesting to deduce that:
- Tradition = Sensation + Intuition
- Revolution = Thinking + Feeling
- Art = Sensation + Thinking
- Life = Intuition + Feeling
- Revolution + Art = Form
- Tradition + Life = Content
- Art + Tradition = Beauty
- Life + Revolution = Truth
Putting it all together:
Music:
Movies:
Fine Art:
posted by Jonathan at
2/24/2009 12:09:00 a.m.
2 Comments:
Great summary. I've been looking for more stuff on McClouds theories. Do you recognize the pictures in his grids?
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Vernon, at 1/19/2011 8:40 p.m.
Thanks Vernon. Yes, I do recognize some of the pictures in McCloud's grids, but not all.
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Jonathan, at 7/21/2011 7:52 p.m.
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