2011年9月15日星期四
The Butterfly Effect A Symbol With Wings
Butterflies are a strange creation: constantly dismissed in passing as pretty entities that we use to embroider youth girls birthday cards, its cozy to forget just how fascinating they can be. With a life wheel consisting of four chapters, butterflies may only live up to a year at the maximum yet they all over an prodigious voyage unique to their species.
As a motif within the arts, the butterfly really spreads its wings. As with birds, the beings ability to fly provides rich metaphorical material because writers and artists; whatever, the relative smallness of the butterfly, its short life span, and its often gorgeous and complicated colouring adds beyond dimension to the butterfly as a metaphorical tool for storytelling. From the visual motif of the butterfly in Tim Burtons gothic fairytale The Corpse Bride to the chief theme of butterflies in poems at, within others, William Wordsworth and Robert Frost, the butterfly soars in mediums that tell stories.
An nationwide menu of songs also hurl the butterfly in a central role, with musicians taking the transitional stages of a butterflys subsistence and using that to permeate their songs with pathos and symbolism. Massive Attack, Muse and Dolly Parton are among the esteemed artists to reference the butterfly within their anthem titles and lyrics, when Mariah Carey dedicated no only her torch song ballad Butterfly to the incredible insect but also the scrapbook of the same label.
Away from these art forms, butterflies are also renowned in art itself, with visual performances of butterflies encompassing Renaissance painters like Dossi Dossi, Pop Art master Andy Warhol and present-day artist Damien Hirst. In terms of art although, the fashion of the butterfly namely not limited to canvas, with jewellery producers including popular mark Pandora jewellery recognising the enthusiasm folk have for butterflies and satisfying this with appropriately new pieces: the Pandora jewellery split butterfly chart has been remarkably fashionable with fans who can let part of their butterfly beauty fly above to the bracelet of a friend, while various charms and handcrafted jewellery featuring the animal are also widely accessible to butterfly fans.
So, notwithstanding human creatures may enjoy a longer life span than butterflies, it appears we have an affinity for this particular species as evidenced by our tries to transfer the human condition by seeing to the butterfly for inspiration lets just cry it the butterfly effect!
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