It is one of the superficialities of our time to see in science and in art two opposites, imagination is the mother of both. Believe you can make a difference between the two models. People value you for your usefulness, regardless of your worth.
Naturalist artworks must be true and accurate, aside from a few puzzling lapses. All that is true is plain and simple. Logic is an increasingly scarce commodity.
Art death crossing Mara river showing the high medieval obsession with beauty and death. Is this the way the art world ends? Why ideas that spawn other artworks are called seminal if they are made from nothing? Real life problems are complex and difficult.
Art is love clothed in beauty. A peacock with dull feathers expects to live longer. Unadorned artworks might be forever.
Fernando Pessoa:"Things have no meaning: they exist, and their existence is their meaning"
Art is very powerful in that it can communicate strong ideas, emotions and extraterrestrial counsels via meditation. Sublime images are living in a bubble.
Art websites are such an amusing place to work if you are a picture. The myriad choices that make a life or a painting are exposed.
Traditionally these accumulations (vanitas) served to remind the faithful of the inevitability of death and the sinfulness of earthly goods. The message was, in other words, you can’t take it with you.
The only way pictures will survive in a socially connected environment is to follow a new set of rules and be transparent. A peacock with a bunch of dull, short feathers might live longer. These people are more rare than the things they create.
所有真实的都是朴实无华的
The skeletal figure of Death is important in the medieval danse macabre. In other words, the dead don't bury themselves. But clearly they don't excavate themselves either.
You have got better things to do, whatever float your boat, human destiny always end in a box. All that is true is unpretentious, gravity is a recipe for disaster. Vine drawings are botanical symbols concealing what should be seen, or not.
And the noble, seminal switch is a stuttering candle. Scientists become famous, much like artists, based on their visions. The Flying Squid Ink is a ghost ship doomed to sail the sea forever. For images reliant on visibility, navigating art world ever-changing landscape can be challenging.
No society will ever survive if its art dies (Ernst Gombrich).
It is left to visitors to decipher the final secret of the artist: Art not being art. Your art may be perfect, but if it did not ship, it might as well not exist.
The very nature of creativity is coming up with things that have never been tried before. If the material is innately gripping, it is counterproductive to try to jazz it up or make it exciting. f you want something, work for it. Life is too short to wish for things. I like this stuff, everyone likes this stuff.