Yes! Paul is genuine. Once I got over myself I realized how interesting, thought provoking and helpful this channel is. He was kind enough to give me direct advice. Thank you Paul.
Thinking about “all paintings are self portraits” has me wondering about how in past eras a human’s identity was inextricably interwoven with their family, their community, the land, their work, in other words reality as you say. Perhaps the postmodern tendency towards abstraction is a symptom of the atomization and alienation of the individual in the post modern world. All that’s to say that the postmodern cannot paint realism, not so much for a lack of technical ability, but for an inability to integrate their identity or “self” with anything outside their own skin. Van Gogh could paint his shoes because his shoes were a part of him. The sunflowers, the peasants gathering hay, all a part of him. The postmodern artist does not experience the world that way. He is an atom. A concept, a world so close in and limited that it is formless, and everything is a scream from the void.
There is something to that! Its not that the artist "can't", it's that as a monad he feels free to to decide for himself what is real, to rule over beauty and goodness. Its like a person enjoying the smell of their own farts
Yes! Paul is genuine. Once I got over myself I realized how interesting, thought provoking and helpful this channel is. He was kind enough to give me direct advice. Thank you Paul.
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I've not watched the video yet. I'm just so happy it exists
Finished it now. Very interesting
Thinking about “all paintings are self portraits” has me wondering about how in past eras a human’s identity was inextricably interwoven with their family, their community, the land, their work, in other words reality as you say. Perhaps the postmodern tendency towards abstraction is a symptom of the atomization and alienation of the individual in the post modern world. All that’s to say that the postmodern cannot paint realism, not so much for a lack of technical ability, but for an inability to integrate their identity or “self” with anything outside their own skin. Van Gogh could paint his shoes because his shoes were a part of him. The sunflowers, the peasants gathering hay, all a part of him. The postmodern artist does not experience the world that way. He is an atom. A concept, a world so close in and limited that it is formless, and everything is a scream from the void.
There is something to that!
Its not that the artist "can't", it's that as a monad he feels free to to decide for himself what is real, to rule over beauty and goodness. Its like a person enjoying the smell of their own farts
Prez T’s ear grazed by speeding metal object.
... here we go... 😕