Art can actually be about increasing the quality of life, and that’s what we think this does. You might not realize anything is amiss. But it is. Art history give up on the idea of being an artist; this is why career as a postmodern image is so unattractive and unfulfilling.
Postmodern expressionist images often underestimate their own potential and achievements. Engaging with the idea that images can function as backdrops onto which viewers designate context, scrappy sketches are able to capture a mood and express a message without being explicit.
The end is not the end. Cleopatra is dead as a dodo, her art is a revolt against death, as kitschy ideas that are not ironic. It’s a dying art form, there’s a community of people that want to keep it alive, and science is along for the ride.
He who fears death will never do anything worthy of a man who is alive. People die, but art never dies. Life is a play in which we all have our own role.
Seneca
Give me to drink mandragora that I might sleep out this great gap of time, my Antony is away.
Shakespeare: Anthony and Cleopatra.
Postmodernism has lost its value in part because it has oversaturated the art market.
An advantage of bad art: your relatives gain nothing by your death, Art is a revolt against death. Micromort is a unit of risk equivalent to a one-in-a-million chance of death.
Theodor Adorno, "Good art is reduced to memento mori in museums".
technology killing creativity, the end is not the end ability to capture and explore the raw emotion and vulnerability of our subjects.
Hans Belting (The end of art history), L'histoire de l'art est-elle finie? The magic is in unexpected details. Stripes always do something.
Le réel est une partie de l'art; le sentiment le complète. Si nous avons été réellement touchés, la sincérité de notre émotion passera chez les autres (Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot).
Compared to woodcut and copperplate engraving which required more work, etching offered greater scope for artistic experimentation and creative freedom. Copper plate etchings made with printmaker snails.
We are trapped in our past, filtered through the museums of the present. Meaningful pictures depict the fundamental human search for transcendence in the light of mortality. Used to be only for decorative purpose, but if old enough, it's great art because if something works, even an iconoclast inkblot, it becomes more beautiful. Technology kills creativity.
This is how it is now, post modernist expressionism can save the world. But either you get screwed around by critics or you get shadowbanned on social media. Your pick.
It is hope that maintains most of mankind, not weeping girls bending under weeping willows. Truths whose thick veil Science has drawn aside.
Where does a painting movement actually finish, when artworks combining art and biology add an intriguing wrinkle to the story of artistic evolution.
In life beauty perishes, but not in art, the ends justify the means. In this way, Wednesday’s drawing of Typhos was, for Medusa, a stroke of luck.
Leonardo da Vinci
Death of painting drawing the end of art. It is clear that there is more than a kernel of truth to the notion that silly thoughts are intrinsic to the manufacturing of whimsy art that can both represent stories and give birth to new ones in the viewer. There is something ghostly in all great art (Lafcadio Hearn).
Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow,
Shakespeare, The tragedy of Macbeth, Scene V; Shakespeare is still relevant because we have not changed as people. Art is all the stuff that makes our civilization work.
What happened to the notion that all artworks appreciate in value? History, it seems, is always ending today. But new shoots can grow out of ashes. In short, traditional art making may never recover, so we may owe these rogue artworks a measure of gratitude. It's not just a copy, it's a metaphor, a way of seeing the deeper meaning of the images through an odd artistic language.
Is painting dead? The end is not the end, this is the beauty of the element odduckium. Nature is so reassuringly incredible, most things in life, have to be cultivated. You can't kill what has already died, with a freedom of mark making rooted in improvisation, playing upon memory and layers of time.
The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation. The carefully considered arrangements transform our way of looking, effectively capturing both fleeting moments and the passage of time.
Hilton Kramer, We will find out what happened. As Kienholz claimed, "all my work has to do with living and dying, our fear of death."
George Edwards’s depiction of the now-extinct dodo (Didus ineptus), serves as a powerful reminder of the fragility of life and the power of art to record what is gone.
I start from something considered dead and arrive at a world (Joan Miró). Janus, the Roman god of beginnings and endings was somehow an antique pushmi-pullyu. Intentionally bad art is where the subjectivity of art is, and that was the beginning of the end.
My challenge is to reveal to the viewer a reality without a past or a future: my works exist in a perpetual present (Carlos Cruz-Diez).
Life's but a walking shadow, a custom many felt was headed the way of the dodo, celebrating its beauty, confronting its fragility, and inspiring action for a more sustainable future. That's where the subjectivity of art is.