One thing about being an artist is that the entire rest of the world is just waiting for the opportunity to betray you. Well, maybe this is just the human condition and they are after you whether you are an artist or not, but then of course, everyone is an artist. And it gets a whole lot harder if you're into representational art, that could be enjoyable and embodies the classical virtues of truth, beauty and goodness. Or even just two out of three.
I feel a rant building inside me and I don't have time to expand on it right now but the greatest enemy of art is political motivation. The latest example of this is liberals vandalising civil war monuments from the civil war. Now, I don't care what you think about history or current events, but those have got to be at least life size and they're representational and cast in metal... they're destroying art!
Maybe this should seem obvious... but vandalism is bad for art!
Like I say, I've got a rant building inside of me, and I've got liberals, conservatives and companies to chew out, but I don't have time for that right now. But I just had to bring this up because liberals destroying statues is a teachable moment and its a bad sign, I don't care if you're hypnotized by the news, its a bad sign.
I also don't like getting kicked around forever and I'm getting my own back. Stay tuned for more art.
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Thursday, August 17, 2017
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Politics Vs. Art
Or Political Gossip Vs. Getting A Life
I apologize for writing a political rant but I hope you will be merciful considering that this is the first time I have given in to the temptation with regards to the 2016 elections.
It seems like everyone I know has been doing way more talking about politics than usual this last year or two. Of course I live in America so there's been elections and there's Trump and all that that entails (I think he's the best president ever from a technical standpoint but I still can't help finding him deeply repulsive, which may seem a little odd). Political speculation has a way of eating into my brain so that I have a hard time thinking about anything else. And I don't even like politics, it tends to make me feel angry and bitter.
Its my opinion that most people have better things to do with their time than worry about politics. In my case the time I spend thinking about politics, would be better spent figuring out what mythical creatures to draw, or paint, or what happens next in the stories I'm writing.
Only this time they have gone too far. This means war. Now is the time to realize that art and politics are fundamentally in opposition and that artists should strive to reclaim the national conversation which has centered too long around politics with all its bleak ugliness, and replace it with something that's actually important.
I do not advocate armed conflict, or even argument, (for the most part). Yet I believe that if each of us as individuals follow the creative muses of the depths of our hearts, we will create such a sudden yet enduring storm of beauty and goodness that the darkness will be defeated and light will prevail.
I apologize for writing a political rant but I hope you will be merciful considering that this is the first time I have given in to the temptation with regards to the 2016 elections.
It seems like everyone I know has been doing way more talking about politics than usual this last year or two. Of course I live in America so there's been elections and there's Trump and all that that entails (I think he's the best president ever from a technical standpoint but I still can't help finding him deeply repulsive, which may seem a little odd). Political speculation has a way of eating into my brain so that I have a hard time thinking about anything else. And I don't even like politics, it tends to make me feel angry and bitter.
Its my opinion that most people have better things to do with their time than worry about politics. In my case the time I spend thinking about politics, would be better spent figuring out what mythical creatures to draw, or paint, or what happens next in the stories I'm writing.
Only this time they have gone too far. This means war. Now is the time to realize that art and politics are fundamentally in opposition and that artists should strive to reclaim the national conversation which has centered too long around politics with all its bleak ugliness, and replace it with something that's actually important.
I do not advocate armed conflict, or even argument, (for the most part). Yet I believe that if each of us as individuals follow the creative muses of the depths of our hearts, we will create such a sudden yet enduring storm of beauty and goodness that the darkness will be defeated and light will prevail.
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