EVERYTHING IS SIMPLE
Everyone seems to think Art is a complex topic. It’s not. Math isn’t a complex topic. Nor are morality, ethics, and law. Nor is psychology and sociology. Nor are the sciences.
THE UNIVERSE IS VERY SIMPLE- IF WE STOP LYING.
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-30 16:29:00 UTC
AESTHETICS: ART > DECORATION > CRAFT
We have evolved these disciplines for very obvious reasons:
– Art (The social, and Monumental, content).
– Decoration (the personal and environmental)
– Craft (the material)
More is always better.
– More content.
– More decoration
– More craft
Why? They represent the accumulation of intellectual (art), emotional (design) and physical (craft) calories.
Bounty. Art like all things that are beautiful, conveys bounty (fertility), which is why we are attracted to it.
See? Everything is very simple and very clear once you understand it.
EVERYTHING IS SIMPLE. THE UNIVERSE IS SIMPLE. IT’S THE LIES WE TELL TO MASK OUR IGNORANCE THAT CREATE COMPLEXITY.
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-30 16:27:00 UTC
SPLATTER PAINTING IS DECORATION NOT ART – AND THATS WHY ITS OK
I’m actually a fan of splatter painting since I recognize it not as art but as decoration. I don’t consider tattoo’s art, nor the decoration of dinner plates art, and I don’t consider splatter painting art, but decoration. And as decoration of the modern postwar apartment it served its purpose. Postwar art in particular, due to (((certain))) influences, is decoration, not art.
And decoration is just fine. Especially for apartment living.
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-30 16:22:00 UTC
MODERN ART – THE ART MOVEMENT AFTER THE INVENTION OF PHOTOGRAPHY THROUGH THE END OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR
A couple of things happened that we need to take into account.
1 – Photography destroyed the artists capacity to earn just like photoshop destroyed the art supply business (which I was a significant player in) and drove everyone to digital.
2 – There was a HUGE increase in demand for decorative arts as the size of the middle class expanded.
3 – The urban apartment and war era panel products and mass manufacturing produced an environment unsuitable for curvalinear arts
4 – Immigration created the problem of producing decoration for new groups who neither wanted to reflect their (peasant) ancestry but wanted to signal their new influences.
5 – The marxists exploited this like they did all other immoral market opportunities.
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-30 16:21:00 UTC
JOHN MARK ON MARKETING MARKET FASCISM AS THE NEXT STEP IN DEMOCRACY
—“As we market/promote a new and improved governmental system with propertarian/natural law tenets etc, is it wiser to speak of it (market/promote/educate) as “a new form of democracy” (and explain the part about houses/markets etc), or to call it something else (because obviously full franchise democracy doesn’t work, and we don’t want people thinking it will be full franchise direct democracy).”— John Mark
Well I think of it as market democracy rather than monopoly democracy and if we explain that it solves the problem of either side winning only the moral will agree and only the immoral disagree.
And then we know who to exit from the polity: the immoral.
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-30 16:15:00 UTC
LET ME HELP: UNDERSTANDING THE BASICS OF ART
DIMENSIONS OF MEASUREMENT
There are three dimensions of art criticism:
– Craftsmanship (includes materials)
– Design (the play of order(composition) and bounty(beauty) and perception)
– Content (the content and values of that content)
All art can be judged by triangulation (comparison) along these three axis. There is no possible cardinality to art but ordinality can be achieved by recursive triangulation.
ALL ART BEGINS WITH MONUMENTAL ARCHITECTURE AND DEVOLVES TO DECORATION AND HANDCRAFTS
– Monumental Architecture is self selecting due to cost.
– Monumental Sculpture is self selecting due to cost.
– Monumental Painting is self selecting due to cost.
– Life Size Representationalism (not photorealism) in painting is self selecting due to cost (hours).
HOWEVER
– Painting, Print, and Photography are not self selecting.
They are middle, working, and lower class substitutes for monuments.
– Even for the upper middle and upper class, and out-of-sight class, the few pieces of quality art that are canon (mentioned in art magazines and books, and references, or which had popular press) are inaccessible. Demand is just too high. So given the high signal value of art (yes it is an extreme expression of dominance), the market has had to experiment with novelty in order to satisfy demand.
Much of what ordinary people rail against is the same as railing against fashion: for those in the fashion industries (of which display art is a member) novelty has to function as a substitute for scarcity of craftsmanship quality (note my particular distaste for the so called ‘art glass’ industry).
AS SUCH
– Monumental works convey ideas (allegiances, heroics, beauty)
– The demand for low cost high production ‘decoration’
(a) may form an icon or ‘remembrance’.
(b) may decorate the environment.
(c) may reflect the monumental, life sized, and representational, is misplaced in non monumental size (which is what most of us intuit as great work).
IN OTHER WORDS
– Monumental work is misplaced in most homes and offices in market (business) and is generally reserved for the political and institutional and aristocratic.
– Most homes cannot support monumental work and require only design (decoration).
– Most people are actually not capable of design, or capable of acquiring the monumental.
– As such the colorful, abstract, the impressionistic, are to homes as type design and color pallet are to print and display advertising.
IN OTHER WORDS
– when people purchase relatively well made ‘design’ (abstract, gestural, impressionistic) of architectural size (to fill a wall) they are practicing good aesthetics (not acting on pretense).
– when people pay homage to the monumental in private spaces, they are practicing good aesthetics. (small engineering drawings, paintings of flowers, well constructed prints)
– when people pay homage to the monumental in architectural spaces (your living room, hallway, or dining room, or office) you are (a) alienating others, and (b)
PERSONAL: ALLORA AND I
We purchased a detailed mezzotint (print) of an elaborately painstakingly made tree that is about four or five feet tall in all, and framed in a wide matte and black frame. This was the centerpeice of the livingroom between two custom made bookcases.
And in the center of the living room we had a glass table with her art jewelry collection and work. And Allora decorated a hallway with dozens of small pieces of framed photographs, etchings, mezzotints, and collections of remembrances.
THE DESTRUCTION OF WEST VIA DESTRUCTION OF ARTS LITERATURE HISTORY LAW AND SCIENCE.
Allora and I were a rare couple because we were the last generation that could be ‘cultured’ – you actually can’t get an art education any longer. You can’t get a liberal arts education any longer (the whig history). The marxists have destroyed art on purpose just as they have destroyed literature, academics, law, and history. It is nearly impossible to ‘be cultured’ in the aristocratic sense any longer. And it was destroyed on purpose by (((the marxists, socialists and postmodernists))).
WE MUST ONCE AGIAN BE WARRIORS SO OUR CHILDREN CAN BE COMPETITIVE SO OUR GRAND CHILDREN CAN BE ARTISTS.
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-30 16:13:00 UTC
Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(worth repeating)
—As Iâve said repeatedly, and will continue to, the primary economic advantage any culture can seek is demographic. This will exacerbate over the next century such that smaller states with superior demographics will constantly outperform larger states with worse demographics. The people you live with have greater influence on your potential than do your abilities.—
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-30 16:09:16 UTC
EVERY MAN A SHERIFF
—“People who, in observing a crime in progress, scold civilians for using force to stop it, say “just call the cops, don’t shoot them”. But, at what point of destruction would you still hold that passive view? Would you say just call the fire department if you saw someone about to start a huge brush fire in California or Greece?”— Steve Pender
Every man a craftsman, a sheriff, a judge, a warrior.
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-30 15:36:00 UTC
YOUR DISPLAY WORD AND DEED ARE PROPAGANDA
—“Everyone must remember that they themselves are the purest form of propaganda to those around them.”— A Sock Account (Goldstein).
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-30 15:32:00 UTC
UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE IS INCOMPATIBLE WITH FREEDOM
by Steve Pender
The founders accepted democracy only because they had set what they thought were sufficient restrictions to prevent past problems of democracy.
Only white (the same stock as the founders), male (those who bear the cost of land ownership/defense), landowners (skin in the game, proven interest in long-term settlement, majority of taxpayers) could vote in the American “democracy”.
Universal suffrage is provably incompatible with long-term freedom since varying levels of skin in the game create voting arbitrage opportunities for the free-riding side (vote for something that benefits you, at the expense of others who pay higher cost).
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-30 15:31:00 UTC