Come in and let's share the arts and music that helped build and guide the west. Discuss, post, morn what was and strive for a better future.
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Remember, art moves the soul. To joy, tears, horror or anger, it doesn't matter. If you need a guidebook, or a thin gentleman to come and explain to you what it is you should be feeling, it's not art, just advertisement.
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well, i tried anyway...
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I like your thread OP, wont let it die
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Well thank you user, i appreciate it, white or not.
Sorry, sorry, couldn't resist...
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the west was built by enslaving anglos, germans and slavs, to the will of the superior mediterraneans
the west was recovered from the muslims by the superior mediterraneans
the real super race has a tan
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Everybody's the west to somebody, i suppose?
It would be interesting to see how art is shared and transferred between invader and enslaved. How art grows or dies in and around conflict. Maybe that's why modern art has gotten so warped and stale, because our conflicts these days are bland, plain and gray.
I like that quote.
art isn't stale, it was forced out of its traditional mediums by technology
That's one of the issues that seems to be bubbling up, though. Progress isn't always advancement. With the rise of the veneration of nihilism and sarcasm, coupled with the death of real, clean passion, art has lost a huge portion of its soul. Novelty, over-complicated ideas translated into single colors on otherwise blank canvas, the traditional mediums have been overridden by progress, but they haven't been replaced by any substance.
Endless growth and progress isn't always a good thing. New tools and new forms, but with no real soul to give it any echo of life. Yes, time has threshed the chaff from the records of history, and there are endless hills of better-forgotten art in the mists of the past. However, for all our new tools, all our advancement and progress, we produce precious little of anything that carries an echo of real beauty and meaning that might truly carry, that can speak over language and time directly to the viewing heart.
It's sad, in a way. I just hope that it's a passing shadow, something that clears the field before new growth.
who is the angel with the burning sword? I've seen him before in other paintings, in blue clothes
I want to say Gabriel, as he's traditionally the one with the burning sword, but i'm possibly (likely) wrong.
i think you are just not looking hard enough, maybe you don't want to find new art, you just want to bitch about the "lose" of the last
it isnt really lost, is there for you to see, and its on different museums that those that keep growing modern art, so you are safe from exposure
at the same time doe, i repeat, the mediums are changing and there is very good undergound art that is either selectively staying away from poisoned distribution models, or simply its so new that there's no profit models for what they do yet
Maybe that is it, in the end, just something that i'm not able to see, or at least not yet. Maybe it is just over-saturation. The art that's touted out these days all seems variations on some abstract concept or something that doesn't seem to be actual art. Like a single painted line, or piles of chairs, or a broken cup in the middle of a bare floor.
It's just deeply disheartening to see the world of art seemingly flooded with people who look down their nose at people who simply like art for beauty or emotion, sneering that they don't "get it". But again, perhaps you're right and it's just something that i'm not really able to see past yet.
It may sting, but i hope very much that you're right and i'm wrong. It's just looking at the march of painting, music, architecture, and watching what appears for all the world like a march of decay, and it's hard not to despair a bit.