MAJOR ARTISTS
- JUAN GRIS
- BROSCHEV
- ESCHERA
- OP EDT
- PICAT
- REMM.
- KLIMPT2.
- HE’S THE INTERNET GUY HE CA()N. IF IT WAS BUT IT WASN'T THOUGH IT WASN'T BECAUSE IT WAS IT WAS KIND OF CNMMNN I THINK I GOT IT RIGHT ON CANVAS I WAS TOO GRIM TEI CHI IS ALSO LIKE THAT
- PICASSO
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Beauty is a monster, but only when you know her…
7 million BCE:
- Before this time it is unlikely there was any concept of cave paintings from man or god. Aesthetics.
80,000 BCE
- Ru the Storyteller
He was good at these 1-up 2-up ideas.
That’s what they thought, well they didn’t get it right…
God is the greatest magic he said, so when a woman disappears, it’s a work of magic, in a matter of speaking. Women are the impossible species, and God, lucky him, is the magical species. They go hand in hand. Humans are so advanced that the devil is fleeting. Unless he’s an old witch, hee hee hee hee.
Ru the Storyteller: He could connect the dots like they weren’t dots. —Storytelling.
9000 BCE:
With all precepts guided towards the attainment of wisdom, the disciple becomes an honorable man.
And, being honorable, his right and attainment are also honorable.
So directed, his virtues are the cardinal points, which direct his business and his manners.
So seated in the middle of his virtue, virtue is the capital of his interest.
Knowing like men, his future is as honorable as theirs, his means are in likeness of theirs, his fortune profits by theirs: he has entered a contract with heaven.
When the virtue dwells with him, he is like a city that the wise return to. He has entered the kingdom of heaven.
Soul: What is demanded without heaven? this demand is effortless.
7000 BCE:
- Aston-I-Shed: Logic (literally ‘small words’) with Isis who was 2-dimensional.
810 BCE:
600 BCE:
Passion for existence and non-existence, understanding duality.
To aim to understand with the available tools—words.
Love is a witche’s fire, almost consumed. —Sent to Henry VIII in battle
Love strikes, viper-like. —Oft attributed to Sappho
The chill, like a perfect venom, was sickness until death (?)
Sappho describes beauty is like a man.
What we worship is the opposite of what we are. —Attributed to Sappho (May have required considering that the coherentist is made of nothing, but worships rarity).
Intelligence is like a monster — Perhaps Sappho
“One is born to lie—One lives the truth.” —Paul Valéry or else Sappho
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500 BCE:
- Some masterful Greek pottery exists from this time.
450 BCE - Modern:
400 BCE:
- Greeks: Representation is important for realism and accuracy.
100 CE:
It seems at first that Longinus (the real writer is unknown and from Ancient Rome) is at first remarking only on the intellectual sublime in particular, rather than the general theme of sublimeness or sublimism.
However, towards the middle and the end, or maybe even immediately, the writing achieves a certain freshness which it appears to originate, its ability to figuratively animate a text, which is a characteristic of the sublime.
Longinus’ writing begins as an emotional critique, and then analyzes emotion as a symptom of an underlying sublime character. The analogy for the ‘character’ is poetry, yet the reality is something tangible and achievable.
One key thing is that this writer is not a modernist, he lives long before the 20th century AD, and as a result he does not have everywhere the gift of modern sublimeness. At the same time, he is the apparent originator of the understanding of the tendency.
One may note Sappho was certainly adapted to the sublime long before Longinus’ time, inspiration en majore.
One can trace a faint line—between Sappho’s writings such as ‘love struck me down like a viper’, Longinus’ writing on the education in the sublime, Dickinson’s continuation of the sublime in modern times, and my own realization of the need for a specific Sublimism movement, distinguished in definition from Romanticism.
Of course, it may be that Sublimism more truly exists in the form of Longinus’ writing, for he appears to have the only major theory on the Sublime and is the primary text read on the subject other than the British Romantics, Dickinson, Sappho, and some contemporary poets.
150 CE:
- Some of the most skilled Roman potterers and smiths were from this time.
200 CE:
- The Library of Alexandria.
These rules are not so different from modern libraries…
Do not die in the sun.
If you take these books you will not curse.
Only the washed.
Do not steal notes.
500 CE:
- The history of specific domains such as physics and politics is important.
1000 CE:
- Some of the precious items from this time were Chinese or Indian.
1000 CE?
- Cervantes.
1400s:
- Some of the earliest-known medieval paintings are from this time, but they were not always masters.
1480:
- True heraldry did not emerge until this time or somewhat later, though symbols did exist on military objects such as shields or processional items reserved for special nobility.
1492 - 1790:
- It was really not until Leibniz and Newton (or perhaps more importantly Ann Bolyn who was one of the founders of Protestantism) that enough excitement had built around science partly as a new age pastime to consider alternate perspectives to the so-called ‘traditional’ models possibly really derived from Paracelsus after the age of Magellan. In this view it was the discovery of detailed illustration which was owed partly to the Arabs and Chinese that led to the new discoveries in science. —Who made the breakthrough which challenged the ancient Greek conception of how science should operate using the latest mathematical techniques?
1500s:
- Paper was rare in the West or at least not often given to ordinary people. (This could be why ‘R.I.P.’ now stands for ‘rest in peace’).
1500s:
- Some of the earliest still-existing European paintings are from this time, such as Dutch pastoral, etc..
1558:
1580:
- ‘At one time it was thought that the only art is the modern’ —possibly Descartes
1600s:
- Some of the early European masters other than purely religious painters are from this time.
1600:
- El Greco Abstraction is important for Modern Art and intellectual art.
Maybe you are really thinking of Nathan Coppedge’s cypresses?
BELOW: Nathan Coppedge’s cypresses from “The Dream House” painted circa 2001.
1667:
Secret: Recedarianism.
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1700s:
- A time of mostly literature. Printing images was too expensive. Art was just commissions by people like Marie Antoinette who could be quite finicky and demanding.
- Apollinaire: Historical Vignettes.
1810:
1820:
- Renoir.
- Poe, Short Stories. Why was Edgar Allen Poe considered a genius?.
House of Ussher: Fall of the House of Escher: Rumor is the House of Escher falls like the House of Usscher. The House of Escher is sometimes rumored to fall through an act of Midas instead of an act of the Almighty. Some think Aladdin’s cave is somehow hidden beneath one of the two houses, however, it is dangerous to investigate. Someone who goes in the House of Usscher dies or receives a magical gift. Someone who enters the Escher Sub-Basement achieves immortality or acquires a deformity. Some of the deformities are deformities of mind. It is often thought that the House of Escher is somehow an evolution of the House of Usscher, perhaps existing at a later date on the same site. Where the House of Usscher is Antiquarian, the House of Escher is Anachronistic. Some say the House of Escher looks modern, but the House of Usscher looks decrepid. —Souls of Locations
1840:
The Disintegral: the idea about a mind being a wormhole may be owed to a comic book I read in 2010 which had a person falling into a wormhole with the statement “I’m losing my mind in here”. Since this thought seemed so un-original, how can I call the Disintegral my idea? And in fact that comic book may not be the first to have used that statement. Indeed, it is one of the most common tropes of comic books in general.
1840s:
- Photography.
1885:
At one time there were significantly different histories, but today they are bound together by the study of modern history.
The real difference people notice originated with the study of JRR Tolikien (who wrote The Lord of the Rings novels and The Hobbit). Of course, Tolkien’s stories are not real or it would be a bit absurd if they were (Tolkien was a mythologist, not a historian). However, Tolkien studies has contributed to the question of ‘What if there were other species similar to elves or aliens for example, who recorded history differently, perhaps because of different knowledge, or having lived a longer time on Earth, or even some other planet?’
For most scientists however, the study of history must be rooted in actual empirical observations and not fantasy. At one time in history however, fantasy would have been considered a part of the reality.
Consider for example, what I believe about my past lives? Is it just that I feel lucky, or is there some consistency between the amazingness of my current life and the amazingness of the past lives I think I’ve had.
1897:
“It is worth being scientific about philosophy, at least as a waystation to some other place” —Nathan Coppedge
1850s:
- Fauvism (nude girls, etc).
1905:
- The Cafe Known as the painter’s cafe, Picasso’s cafe.
I have thought Picasso was inspired by the term ‘das ding en sich’.
It was just like a painting, everyone says.
They seemed like perfect people.
Almost everything about it was worth talking about.
They were inspired to think of things like the word ‘zombie’.
They could explain themselves in a short time.
The night was interminable like melting clocks were a sin.
1905: Picasso may have thought Hyper-Cubism meant ‘boob cubism’.
To get back at him, I said, maybe it was really a cafeteria.
You confused me for Mr. Munch he said.
They were sort of pure said Roger Uilein.
I know what you mean, in the painting I said.
That’s highly unlikely, someone dressed as Picasso said.
But it was a double, a doppleganger. He had been replaced by a fake.
Anything would go, especially Nathan, because he’s such a ‘bad choice’.
Where in the world is Picasso?
Picasso: Primary cafe (toiletry magic-users).
“Lucky-luckies. Leave me feeling like crepe.”: Craps: Secondary.
Secondary language: Bird tree fish language
Theogeny (Plato: Picasso was on the Plate: restauranteur).
Feelings are shelfish (select specials. Everyone made of wood).
Bad wood would be framed. Odin burned.
The power of words (‘the belief’ that there is little better than words, no real magic).
The sound of music (we are a bit lucky).
The disheveled and sick (wear some clothes to remain well).
One may sometimes see the emotion in the world.
What if the world ends from the so-called ‘Three Musicians’—
They are great people from the past,
Who sing a song.
Lamenting fate.
Do we listen to their song?
Do we dodge the bullet?
Do we catch the bullet in our mouth?
What is left of the day at the end of the setting sun?
What about the musicals of life says that it will not end?
We might play immortal music, and not know death.
We might play death and not know immortal music.
How much of this is a lie?
What is the tragedy in the end?
Who do we share our tragedy with?
WHO REALLY WANTS THE THREE MUSICIANS?
No one, right? No one.
No one wants immortal music to play.
No one wants tragedy.
No one wants the sun to immortally set.
No one wants an immortal chariot.
No one wants to play music in the future.
No one thinks the ukulele is enough.
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1908:
- Ernest Everett Just. Flow journaling. Stream of consciousness.
It's called stream of consciousness.
Then you add an element of periodic reflection.
And re-hashing.
And you get conscious flow journaling.
—How does “conscious flow journaling” work?.
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1908:
A certain futuristic feeling originally dating to around 1910 - 1920 is what most people remember of modernism.
It is evoked by art such as the above.
It is similar to art nouveau—-it depends a lot on the specific use of style, and since then for ease of use it has degenerated into architecture using the planar grid and particular uniformities.
It was a time during which very regular shapes such as squares and circles could be seen as especially stylish and fashionable, and anything that was not geometric and regular in some way was seen as having to be highly stylized and mathematically ‘pure’.
In a sense, it was a period during which only art was allowed to disconform.
A little-acknowledged fact may be that that modernism emerged in part due to the alliance between the U.S. and Germany during World War One.
1910:
- Cubism. What determines someone as a genius in the arts?
- Reputation. For example, pathetic things like whether the art has a frame, whether it looks like talent went into it (somewhat subjective). For example, if the art is in style, if it is big (if that is what they want), the price the artist seems to get away with, whether the buyer respects the subject and medium — some like landscapes or pastels, etc. some only buy abstracts that look like people. It can be partly luck or one’s knack for finding an audience.
- Being prolific enough to have work that many people own. For example, it is rumored Picasso was the only artist who out-produced all of his competitors combined. He became famous.
- Having buyers who treat the art with careful respect.
- Having enough shows or reputation for genius to convey the idea that one is a serious artist. Sometimes this happens very early, and then dies. Other times it lives on after a life of poverty, sometimes it looks like all the clients are corporate, sometimes someone remains a minor figure for a long time, sometimes it goes in and out like a style whether or not one is alive. Other times one may be completely ignored.
1915:
- Metamorphosis:
(1)
Wouldn’t that be nice? A new ornamental X, a new filligree Y…
It leads to ideas about life…
It might lead one to think great things…
It might lead one to lead a new life…
(2)
One has a certain degree of tolerance. Then one notices…
There is an ancient problem. An archaic bug.
The bug, although it is old, has enmeshed itself in everything.
Now one requires a critical attitude. Everything outside the self is corrupt.
(3)
There is a remaining problem. One thing doesn’t work.
One conducts some kind of process on the thing.
Some kind of energized occurrence happens. “Lightning comes down.”
Suddenly you are trespassing on God.
- Originally written as The Errata of the Archana of History / The Intellectual Part 2
1917:
- Marie Antoinette may have commented belatedly on the Russian Revolution: Is it that the mandolins will play and the tires will burn… Or is it that the tires will burn and the mandolins will play…? I take this to be a suitably esoteric question! —Serious Navel-Gazing Maybe she lost that one but it’s not a good bet. Somehow it meant win. I thought it meant lose. Amusing and amazing someone said.
1920:
- Dutch and Flemish Symbolists flourish.
1928:
1930:
- Futurism.
1939:
- American movies.
1940:
- Craft movement in Germany.
1950s:
- Objectification of women: Women's Ideal Body Types Throughout History.
1950s:
- Increase in modern architecture.
1950s:
(“Dharma Bums” 1958). Known as “The Beats” or “The Beat Poets”.
- Latest: June 18, 2023: Nathan talked to ‘amazon customer service’ about the Escher Machine.
I will just post examples of this type of real-life poetry, which is partly about sound, and partly about communicating a special message, or sometimes an ordinary one. More care is required than in most writings, and the vast majority of attempts don't pass, possibly including the ones I post.
Around 5:50AM New Haven, before going to Starbux for iced chai with snow on the ground.
There's got to be a lot of traveling before we get anywhere.
It is a metaphor this morning, to eat a sandwich.
I think where we went wrong, is we were wearing the wrong color socks.
People are rich, so they might have rich souls. But now people are forced to imagine standing in line for used shoes.
The Hedgehog and the Fox.
Not Greatness or Great Men, but History doing it’s thing.
“Losers in a higher Dimension.”
Oh wait, they’re good.
Drinking, gambling, woman with stiletto heels: it’s just more hyper-dimensional.
If the universe suffers, it’s time to not go to universe.
What did he accomplish? I don’t know! He lived pretty much midstream. Philosophizing with a hammer.
If I had to communicate I would be screwed. But since I don’t, I’m just *fucked up*.
It is possible the theory-theory assumes a certain level of privilege which is not adopted in metaphysics.
I’m falling… falling… reinforced concrete and stuff. Jesus falls in love and founds civilization.
The mosquito didn’t bite me for two days. What else did it find to suck on?
What a woman really thinks is she’s wrapped up in a coat.
Amerika like pylons, baby food.
BEAT ECONOMICS
I like it when things blow over, but I wish things were better.
1960s:
- The overall history, such as interpretation, is also important.
1961:
- MC Escher. An abstract painting in the style of Escher by Coppedge:
1963:
The conclusion I draw is this cartoon amounts to how some people slaved over a cartoon.
Something to notice is what they call feathers in cartoons.
They fly out and hover there, then chances are the feathers disappear in a second.
Kind of like they don’t matter.
Then you see there are a number of feathers, it might not matter what their number is.
One second it’s one number of feathers, another second it’s another number.
Plus, the feathers don’t matter.
To count the cartoons as being divinities you might have to go back to Ancient Egypt.
If you go back to Ancient Egypt they’re still counting the number of feathers.
They might not have existed in Ancient Egypt either.
I think some people who are less critical of these cartoons like smoking cigarettes. Doesn’t mean the cartoon likes cigarettes. Certainly doesn’t mean I like them.
1970s:
“But if the mind, Nothing unfolds…And like a mirror… reflects The empty images of [the world], Whence then this all-discerning common concept’s strength [?]” —Boethius
1970:
1970s:
- It occurs to me if you really saw a black hole it wouldn’t be beautiful. In art as in life, it won’t happen. If it does happen, then in fart as in life. —Anti-Art
1980s:
- Art should probably adopt parts of both abstraction and representation unless it exemplifies one or the other, or if it represents a specialized genre.
- Russian Formalist Literature.
Particular qualities are focused on, particular aesthetics, such as baggy clothes or a sharp knife.
1990s:
2001:
- Ekphrastic Writing (2001)
2001:
- THE CALCULUS OF BARDS:
A 1-d bard is silent and does nothing.
A 2-d bard sings a long time and walks in circles.
A 3-d bard can be seen in a doorway and knows how to compose music.
A 4-d bard can make music come alive and appears on stage.
A 5-d bard is immortal and plays immortal music.
A 6-d bard lives music literally.
That's about it for perfect bards.
—Nathan Coppedge's answer to How many kinds of bards are there?
2002: THE PAINTER
The Painter: A Certain Logic
PART 1:
- It is a picture of Y.
- Y is like that, because X is right.
- But it is not like that, because X is crazy.
- But maybe X isn’t crazy, because Y is not like that.
- It isn’t a picture of Y.
- Y might be be a crazy thing to paint.
- What except Y would make US crazy?
- If we are not that crazy, why would we paint Y?
- Unless X is crazy, why does he not paint X?
- Is this crazy, to paint at all?
- What does it mean to ‘paint’?
- What if everyone is painting Y?
- What if no one paints X?
- What if people have a choice?
- What if there is a correct answer?
- What if there is no X or Y only Z?
- Would we make all paintings in the image of Z?
- Is Z an impossible painting?
- What if X and Y are also impossible?
- Would we run out of paintings?
- Is painting an irrational process?
- Do we always need more and more?
- Have we left the truth behind?
- Are we on the brink of madness?
- Have we long since lost our wits?
- Is nothing quite the same as the truth?
- Are we uncertain of OURSELVES?
- Are we sure to have an UNCERTAIN ART?
- Does this mean we have forgotten CERTAINTY?
- Could it be that CERTAINTY is nothing at all? —NCoppedge, 2002
PART 2:
Well, it can be a learning process for most people.
At first you think high art is maybe the name Cezanne, or visiting the Louvre.
Then you think high art is maybe Picasso.
Then you think high art is maybe Kandinsky or M.C. Escher.
Then you think high art might be Miro, or Dali, or Gertrude Stein.
Then you might think art is Art Nouveau or Futurism or modern architecture.
Then you might think art is Mondrian or medieval tapestries or illuminations.
Then you might think art is fine illustration, or children’s books, or religious painting.
Then you might think art is fantasy art, or illusionary artists, or contemporary.
Then you might think art is fine poster art, or schematics, or realism.
Then you might think art is whatever you design, or metaphysical art, or the best sculptures.
Then you might think art is anything—anything you find in a museum, or photography, or pornography.
Then you might think art is book covers, or Halloween art, or art that fulfills a need.
Then you might think art has to be very clever like Chindogu art, or that it should be cool and mechanical.
Then you might decide that Hyper-Cubism is art, or that art should be scientific, or magical.
Then you might think concept art is a bit better, or illustrations of beautiful human situations, or beautiful people.
Then you might think art is Renoir and those imitating him, or you might see all art as Chinese, or that art requires special genius.
Then you might think art must communicate a message—Supposedly this is Level 1.
Next you can think teapots and towels are art. Then you see some things as crass and ordinary.
You realize art involves not just a message, but understanding.
You realize art is about happiness—and most art is not happy. You seek happiness.
You like rainy art, and nothing else. It satisfies you. Or just rain itself. You prefer real life. You hate paintings. They aren’t moist—so they aren’t emotional. You prefer magic in art—but magic is just real life.
Then you like the color yellow—you don’t know why—it is just beautiful. Maybe it would be better to notice Picasso’s cafe. Magic is real life. Yet it is somehow plastic, like a dark secret.
You may as well play video games you think—video games are almost there, but missing something.
You spend a long time trying to recover your rationality. You sort of succeed. Life involves people, and life is just-as-you-have-it. Life is literal, and figurative, and unfortunately ordinary.
You’ve seen pointillism before, but this is pointillism.
You may as well try being transcendental. You like fantasy rain paintings.
You suddenly like the color green. But it is too ordinary.
You notice a weird flash. It changes your life.
Paintings could be colorful!
I might like muddy red paintings.
I might like sea-green.
I might like people who can paint glass. But if not, then abstract expressionism.
I think I like toll booths, or chocolate chip cookies or something.
I think I like bad paintings, you say.
I think I like that ineffable quality of looking over a hill—when it is barely raining.
I think I like paintings of women.
I think I like dark paintings.
I think I like paintings that help me remember the past.
I think you may as well buy a painting with a golden frame.
I think you may as well always use a dark frame.
I have experimented with paintings with no frames.
I think there is an art to framing a painting or photograph.
I think I like paintings I have done myself.
I think I like the color purple. I have used it a lot in paintings.
I think paintings should be like drugs. Drugs are fantasy to me. I’m not a drug addict, I just think paintings are like drugs. It is a high-minded perspective.
I think I like a clever perspective in art.
I think I like clouds—clouds of light.
I think I like to paint fish—but I never can.
I think I like other people’s art. I never like my own.
I think art is impossible—I have just about given up.
I think I was incorrect—art is not impossible, it is the true impossible, it is the ultimate condition of man.
Art is madness, that is my only conclusion.
I was wrong, I was damaged in the brain, there is no art, or something like that. We should just try our hardest to survive in life. Art doesn’t matter, art is meaningless. Art is a form of prostitution. Art is no better than a man who approaches us in a dark jacket maybe carrying a gun. Art is cheating, or swindlery, art is contraband, dangerous, and stupid.
At other times, there is art. That is the wizard-trick. I could be exaggerating. Maybe that is art, maybe that isn’t. Art is a trick. Sometimes art is immediate, sometimes art is oh-so-distant. We must prize it, capture it, ideally live it. Art is a message, I don’t know how difficult it is to say it. Art is like Fauvism. I think I’ve had an epiphany. That is how bad art comes, and how good art arrives. Art is maudlin, flaming perfect garbage.
Art is what happens when you aren’t watching someone says.
Art is colored black.
Art is too subtle for expression.
Art is everywhere, and nowhere. There is no there there.
Art is on everyone’s heart, and no one’s mind.
Art is witchcraft that deceives itself.
Art is an unnecessary added explanation.
Art is impossible madness dressed as science, and motley foolery that does everything wrong.
Art is filligree without the silver.
Art is something Marie Antoinette dreamed up—not to be cruel, but not to be sweet, definitely looks cruel, not that sweet in retrospect. A historical problem dressed in lies.
Art is dirty and insignificant.
Art is meaningful to someone.
Art is the bastard race of the imagination.
Art runs a fine line.
Art insists on itself.
Art is naked, it doesn’t always lie.
Art is pollution made to look refined. Art is diabolical to the limited mind. Art is clever, when you know the truth. Art is a lost baby with a missing tooth. Art is not always soft, but it softens sight. Art is for bad eyes.
The power of art is prostitution. The memory of art is gay. Art is a bad experience. We wish we could do better.
Art is weapons for the open mind. Art is surgery which requires no tools. Art is pretend sentences.
Art it isn’t. History it is. Except you don’t know what I mean by history. Art is play-pretend. Art is misery. Art is shock-treatment. Art is people who definitely get it. Art is God’s trick on innocent people. I take it back, art is God. But if you believe me, you deserve a shot in the mouth. Art isn’t really anything. Art is what I say it is. Art is and we better not finish that sentence. Art is, and art isn’t. There is no other thing to say about art or anything else. Art is … what art is … therefore… maybe … art … is? Art is questionable, and questioning art is reasonable. Art is an attempt at life. Art is immeasurably innocent. Art is a physical construct. Art is Chinese calligraphy. Art is an illusion if you can make it. Art is science to a scientist, or a toy to a baby. Art is or … art isn’t. Life is life, who cares about art? Art is just a word. Is life just a word? No, I take it back. Art is like life. In life as in art. Art is what is made by an artist. There is no more universal definition of art. If art is not universal, then where are we? Where are we going in this universe? That is where art is going, so we may as well accept it. Art is the universe, and art is garbage, because this universe is garbage. There is no other solution. Not everything is art. Good point. Maybe art is trying to make a point. What is the point of this universe? That is art. Life is supposed to be art, make the most of it. Try to be a grandmaster. Try your best. Live your life, make the most of it. Art doesn’t matter, except in life as in art. If you’re an artist, be an artist. If you’re something else, do whatever the hell something else does. It doesn’t matter. Everything matters. Nothing matters except everything. Be a specialist. I don’t know what the hell I’m talking about. Do your own thing. Anything is art. Anything matters. Everything matters in life. I might be lying. It’s in you. You are the person that does what you do. Do what you do. Do you know what I mean? I’m not trying to scare you. You are the being in your existence. I’m un-school. You’re school. You’re the person doing what you think you’re doing. You’re the master. You’re the god in your existence. You are not crazy like me. Art is monkey business. Art is insane. Come to think of it, we totally forgot what art means. Oh, that’s right: art is a picture. Art is what it is. Art is as-is. Art is a picture of something or of itself. If everything were art we would be screwed. Come to think of it, art is that Jewish guy who bothered me once. He doesn’t have to be Jewish, or I think he doesn’t. It’s some perfect guy or gal who bothered you sometime. Art is for idiots. Art is make-believe or strangers using your time. Art is like the metro or the subway train. Art is a drug and we don’t know how to take it. Is that what you think? You tell me what art is. I’m not saying everything I think, but what’s on your mind? What is art to everyone else? Maybe that is what art is.
Art is meagre magic. Art is what we can afford. Art is energy language. It is time to add energy to paintings. Art is energy paintings. Art is stuff that transcends life. Art is a well-made display. Art is a paradoxical instructions box. Art is the devil. Art is unavoidably clever. Art is the sea-captain who told you to take hold of the reins. Art is a doom-prophecy and life’s salvation. Art is a difficult joke, or a perfect building. Art is the flavor of the times. Art is an intellectual pattern-sense, an important problem, a regurgitation by God. Art is Jewish or Chinese. Art is above average. Art is a thinking man’s actions. Art is the troubadour, and the pianist, and the lady that sings perfectly. Art is a rare thing in life, yet we should embrace it. Art is the next best thing to love if you believe in that. Art is like an evil plague that strikes at the luckiest time. Art is one of the ideas of history.
If you took one of my paintings out in the rain, I realize you were inspired. I think you have expensive tastes—so do I!
What could art be but souls I realized with a grin. Or, magic. Or, something just as good. I think this is what writers throughout history were trying to realize: ideal art is souls, by which I mean writing, which may as well ideally be art, or some kind of thing, like monsters of the imagination, or just imaginary tales, or maybe this is just magical pollution. It’s a shame we’re not fairies, or elder ghosts, or williwigs or magic toads! What have I thought of! What do I make of it! This is genius! This is magic promising! This is it! I have reached the end of the Earth or something! That is magic—to reach the end of the Earth and not fall! To be emperilled and a hero withall! To triumph! And learn to seek another day! Or maybe to chirrup, and be wrapped up straight! Have I gone bonkers? What is this ‘idea’? What could make me ‘so’? What am I questioning about ‘this’? Have I come to the end of the road? Is there such thing? Were the ‘waltons’ ghosts? Am I an average kid? Can I try smarts? Was I ever ‘good’? Am I just a ‘rhyme’ man ‘rhyming’ my bood? That’s crazy—What would I pay? For a magic book? Or that Lucifer-power? Or that magic cape? Why am I ashamed finally when it comes to this? It is like a diagonal alley, which I made with my own philosophy! The answer is this! I am sure! The mystery is supposed to wait like an eternal chore! I have nixed it! I have opened the lock! There is no danger! I am free, free at last! The master of the minotaur! The king of the forgotten treasure! The carrier of Sigurd’s Sword! Forget the sword! I have the kingdom! The kingdom at last! I have learned how to make my keep! What do I worry? I have entered the land of good and plenty! I have found the soda fountains and the land of dizney! I have found the answer to God’s plight and the ending of history! I am a man alive! I am a fortunate man! I am the clown who made his own joke! I am the genius! I am the witticism! I am the taker and teller! I am the bird-stone! I am the maker of lies! I have risen at last! I am no longer an animal! I am too clever for the Basilisk! I am a higher man! I have undone the broigle! I have conquered time! Or I live at last! I am the free man! I am the traveler! I am the maker of maps! I am the fretless fellow! I am the happy man! I am the ornate thinker! I am the inventor! I am the promiser of thought! I am the bank visitor! I am the eater of viands! I am the talented fool! I am the metaphorical tailor! I am the devil in a good moment! I am the lucky clever! I am luckier than the lucky-luckies! I am greedier than the greedy-greedies! I am smarter than the smarty-smarties! I am the fortunate man!
—Is there a higher and lower level of aesthetics?.
2005:
2005:
- History should probably continue to cover specializations, even though interpretation can be helpful, otherwise it is merely being representative or abstract.
2005:
- Perhaps the best year for the steampunk aesthetic, though there had been attempts since at least 1891.
2008:
2015: Time-Travel Literature.
2017: The best year for Fantasy Artists
Evoking Rob Gonsalves:
(This is a repeat question I reposted from an obscure group).
One technique is adding dimensionism.
A more developed technique: develop a philosophy which broadens your view of the world, then apply that philosophy to reconstructing your existing view of the world. This can have interesting results.
2017:
2017:
1
WATCH OUT FOR THE NEW GUY
?
Maybe they hired a new guy.
A new guy! Uh-oh, he might be all about cleanup.
They know the fools made a point about eliminating New York with a tsunami!
But we know the fools are wrong!
But now we know we should annihilate the fools!
We have a choice between annihilating New York and annihilating the fools!
But if New York is foolish, and there's a new guy, watch out!
Watch out regardless, QED… or no one's a fool!
(Watch out for the new guy.)
2
General Ordinance of Destruction.
G.O.o.D.
Does that seem ambiguous?
Good.
…
January 27, 2019:
- It was a typical day when…
- It was the last huzzah.
- The tall spruce.
- The old.
When it is a typical day it is a fiction.
If there is a last huzzah it is a fiction.
If there is a tall spruce it is a fiction.
- Definition: something that looks like a spruce.
If there are the old it is a fiction.
…
June 6, 2019:
2022
Energy is one thing.
And safety is another.
Another is organic matter.
Between those three it covers a lot if there is sufficient heat.
Immunity is another important term.
—Are there sufficient resources in the universe for human immortality to be sustainable forever? (…)
…
February 13, 2022: Music Paper:
July 6, 2022:
Fiction might be about lying.
But it is presented as a fantasy.
Except it is also presented as information, sort of.
So, if the person were deceiving, they are still presenting information to analyze.
They are presenting a believable story.
They are presenting something suited to belief and fantasy.
They want it to seem like a true story.
They might be avoiding real life.
…
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