Journal created:
on 21 April 2003 (#1016540)
Updated:
on 28 August 2010
Name:
Greta Garbo
A movement of conscious and methodical destruction of particular and recognizable in appearance. Artistic elimination of rational visual association. In a way it is synthetical purification and intensification of colours, forms and ideas that leads to creation of artwork that either resembles a direct print of a soul that refused to undergo rational filters of mind and cognoscence, or a quasi-scientific, almost mathematical picture that looks so rational it's difficult to believe how irrational it actually is.
Who were the first artists? In all likelihood, they were shamans. Like the legendary Greek poet Orpheus, who sang his words while playing the lyre, they were believed to have divine powers of inspiration and to be able to enter the underworld of the subconscious in deathlike trance-but unlike ordinary mortals, they could then return to the realm of the living. With this unique ability to penetrate the unknown and express it through art, the artist-shaman gained control over the forces hidden in human beings and nature. Even tody artists are magicians whose work can mystify and move us- and embarrassing fact to civilized people, who do not like to give up their veneer of rational control.
What sets great artists apart from others is not simply the desire to seek but the mysterious ability to find. This talent is called a "gift," implying that it is a sort of present from some higher power- akind of "good demon"- inhabits and acts through the artist. When creativity is at its height, artists speak of being inspired by the muses that were believed to govern the liberal arts in antiquity. And when the well runs dry, they feel as if the muse has abandoned them.
"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is; infinite." William Blake
I'm not really sure of anything except for love... whatever that is.
Who were the first artists? In all likelihood, they were shamans. Like the legendary Greek poet Orpheus, who sang his words while playing the lyre, they were believed to have divine powers of inspiration and to be able to enter the underworld of the subconscious in deathlike trance-but unlike ordinary mortals, they could then return to the realm of the living. With this unique ability to penetrate the unknown and express it through art, the artist-shaman gained control over the forces hidden in human beings and nature. Even tody artists are magicians whose work can mystify and move us- and embarrassing fact to civilized people, who do not like to give up their veneer of rational control.
What sets great artists apart from others is not simply the desire to seek but the mysterious ability to find. This talent is called a "gift," implying that it is a sort of present from some higher power- akind of "good demon"- inhabits and acts through the artist. When creativity is at its height, artists speak of being inspired by the muses that were believed to govern the liberal arts in antiquity. And when the well runs dry, they feel as if the muse has abandoned them.
"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is; infinite." William Blake
I'm not really sure of anything except for love... whatever that is.
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