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Tweak says, "Wacka day! No school today!"

bulwark_ (bulwark_) wrote in incompletedata,
@ 2017-11-04 20:33:00

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dc: dceu: lois lane, marvel: (fox/x-men): raven darkholme, marvel: comics: sharon carter, star wars: canon: armitage hux, the adventure zone: lucretia

I have felt such inspiration lately, and particularly a desire to experiment.

I'm unsure what prompted this but I think that I may paint more. It's unlike anything else I've ever done.

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arkanis
2017-11-05 02:39 am UTC (link)

Discounting the past and it insights, accomplishments, and infinite wisdom as dull is the very kernel of the problem with art - I use the term loosely - which prizes innovation over all else. I appreciate the accuracy with which you have captured your subject; the stillness it communicates in motion. Technically it is wonderfully adept. I wonder, though, what its instructive value might be. Perhaps I simply can't see it.

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	bulwark_ 2017-11-05 02:56 am UTC (link)
	I agree, art that promotes innovation, or worse, self exploration and biography, is not art as far as I'm concerned. Art is about beauty and capturing that beauty. I appreciate your compliments. Does art need to have instructive value to have worth? I do not think so. The beauty of it, the purity of that beauty, is what matters. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

arkanis
2017-11-05 03:02 am UTC (link)

I believe the instructive purpose is the very core of artistic value. Those who would have us believe that morality and virtue are not the most important aspects of human existence lead us miserably astray. I realize this has become an unpopular point of view. But with all my heart, I believe it: we do one another no favors pretending that wandering in the woods and hoping to stumble on the truth is the best way to enrich humanity. We know what is right. We know what is beautiful. We must proclaim it loudly and clearly and leave no room for mistake.

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bulwark_
2017-11-08 04:53 am UTC (link)

I feel as though we are of similar minds to this point, if not of similar methods. That which is ugly or impure could be constructive. There is something to be said of the subjectivity of beauty, but most will recognize when something is beautiful. A sunset is beautiful, but it does not contain values of virtue nor morality, and thus is instructive in neither. Does that mean that it has no worth? I would say that it does, as does the art that captures it, simply because they enrich the lives of everyone who sees them by being delightful to the eyes. But the sun cannot preach to me, cannot tell me the right way to live my life. It is there to light the day and to dazzle me twice daily as is is born and as it expires. There is poetry in that, it is true, but I am not sure that it is what you would call instructive nor moral.

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