The Arts stretch across a continuum ranging from absolute plasticity to absolute rhythmicity. This is a thread on my aesthetic theory. Buckle up, western man.pic.twitter.com/YYsVPvOiy2
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The Arts stretch across a continuum ranging from absolute plasticity to absolute rhythmicity. This is a thread on my aesthetic theory. Buckle up, western man.pic.twitter.com/YYsVPvOiy2
The essence of rhythm is the affirmation of will over time. Music, thus, is not a "copy" of will, as Schopenhauer thought, but one of its most direct affirmations.pic.twitter.com/DsMHVgXkGj
As we tend to absolute rhythmicity, we also tend to absolute abstraction; hence music being the most abstract art. More rhythm implies less figuration, and thus, it leads us to indifferentiation, to the sea of becoming.
The essence of plasticity is the affirmation of will over matter. Sculpture, thus, appears to us as the removal of some matter from the process of becoming. Its existence as artwork is a stasis.pic.twitter.com/J7qqNEDOTI
As we tend to absolute plasticity, we also tend to absolute figuration; the asymptote stretches on forever, as absolute representation is, simply, the real. More figuration implies less rhythm, more stasis; and thus, it leads to death, to the sun of Apollo.pic.twitter.com/VlvTpEvI3J
Architecture is the most rhythmic of the plastic arts, and thus the most abstract. These two characteristics seem to depend on each other, as architecture does not signify anything other than its own inner rhythm.pic.twitter.com/frPR4eREwT
So-called "abstract" painting is only "abstract" inasmuch as it represents the introduction of rhythmic behavior in painting, nothing else.pic.twitter.com/quzIKx81wt
To perform a rhythmic art, is to will the passing of time; to create plastic art, is to will eternity.pic.twitter.com/1DBy6P63eY
Music is not the closest copy of will; the truth is, art & the universe are two similar creations of will representing itself, in the rhythmic sea becoming & the static sun of Apollo. As Rimbaud saw: Elle est retrouvée. Quoi ? — L'Éternité. C'est la mer allée Avec le soleilpic.twitter.com/PIQIQBXHPA
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