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To: D-fendr
Just FYI, since you're playing so dumb. Artists and architects almost never create exact duplicates of what they're supposed to represent. To think that they would build an actual Muslim minaret to represent a minaret is foolish. Same with the crescent and star. Neither are exact, yet the representation is clear. People who know about art are able to pick up on the design cues quite easily. Things are normally abstract and created as symbolic representations. All sorts of materials are used to do this in many different ways.

Either you know that glaringly obvious fact and are playing dumb or you need to take some art and architecture courses and learn more.

207 posted on 09/12/2005 2:28:18 PM PDT by spycatcher
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To: spycatcher
since you're playing so dumb. Artists and architects almost never create exact duplicates of what they're supposed to represent. To think that they would build an actual Muslim minaret to represent a minaret is foolish.

No need to get snippy about it. It looks more like the Washington monument than it does a minaret. That was the poster's point and my point in reply.

224 posted on 09/12/2005 5:05:42 PM PDT by D-fendr
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