Postmodern expressionist images often underestimate their own potential and achievements.
The end is not the end. The art world is still largely stuck on the production of physical goods. Most things in life, have to be cultivated. Cleopatra is dead as a dodo, and art is a revolt against death. Life is a play in which we all have our own role.
He who fears death will never do anything worthy of a man who is alive. People die, but art never dies.
Seneca
Give me to drink mandragora that I might sleep out this great gap of time, my Antony is away.
Shakespeare: Anthony and Cleopatra.
Painting was declared dead by critics and artists, not for Nyx and Nemesis, technology killing creativity.
Hans Belting (The end of art history), L'histoire de l'art est-elle finie?
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, art 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?
Postmodernism expressionism asemic writing
In life beauty perishes, but not in art, the ends justify the means.
Leonardo da Vinci
Where does a painting movement actually finish, when artworks combining art and biology add an intriguing wrinkle to the story of artistic evolution.
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.
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.
No society will ever survive if its art dies.
Ernst Gombrich
For a statistician, life and death are synonyms, check it by looking for "life insurance" on the internet. Life is a metaphor for death. Postmodern expressionism is a metaphor. Infrastructure is civilization.
I want to murder painting.
Joan Miró
Odalisques mirror the real world. Success is just a question of time.
Brain plasticity is badly needed for plastic art metaphors, because artworks try hard to mirror the real world.
History, it seems, is always ending today. But new shoots can grow out of ashes. In short, traditional art making may never recover.
Is painting dead? The end is not the end. You can't kill what has already died, with a freedom of mark making rooted in improvisation, playing upon memory and layers of time.
I am old and ill, and I have sworn to die painting (Paul Cézanne).
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