1. Man I'm really tired of politics and drama, so let me make a mini thread on art and politics (wowzerz!!) This came from me watching a vid from @XELASOMA_ART called "artists are not special people".
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3. back in the day in both the east and the west, the artist was beholden to, and achieved legitimacy from institutions, especially religious institutions, religion and art share an eternal symbiosis....now artists in the "post-metaphysical age" are beholden to only their own
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4. creativity and are forced to forge for meaning once more, there simply is no mass institution that is sufficiently sacred enough, well, besides churches and other religious ones, but they need to seek an artistic rebirth.
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5. all of the mass institution, government, academia, sports, etc. that fund art are so profane or even downright satanic in nature that there cant possibly be really good art that can be produced by them. of course this is hyperbole, there are good pieces, but imo, pop music?
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6. hollywood? CULTURE INDUSTRY? give me a break. you know Marcuse thought classical and realist art that is pleasant, like my pypo the impressionists, would be used to give people a false consciousness, and distract them from their proletarian misery, THE EXACT OPPOSITE IS TRUE!
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7. the modern art world has in many ways weaponized ugliness, but this being said, even the ugly has a purpose, rather, the great works of art do not passify and distract the masses but the bland, the soft, the mass-codified, the "comfy" forms of art that are "pleasant"
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8. but not in the way the great works of art, the impressionists in particular, are "pleasant" on a deeper level, most popular art is simply sexual wish fulfillment. another idea Alex presented, the nature of the culture industry as (to use Deleuze's term) overcoding the globe:
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9. the culture indsutry has even imported the western and very bland definitions of beauty to the east for example. the zen and taoist painters were not these atomized artists rendering the full presence of beauty, but were immersed in spiritual practice through art.
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10. having studied this in grad school, the Japanese and Chinese did not even have an idea of aesthetic beauty until the late 19th century! (read the works of Francois Jullien) shout out to
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this is ironic considering anime weebs and niceposters obsess over Japanese art and "beauty", and how these neotinous anime girls are the "platonic form" of beauty, this is totally alien to classical Japanese art, anime is the hyper capitalist americanist version of east art,
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11. anime in many ways is a symptom of the mass culture industry smoothing out the cultural spaces of the world, what im really saying is that anime is just ORIENTALISM in more ways than one.
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