Modern art is a platonic playground of the ideal. Perception of the ideal includes perception of what is NOT ideal. Modern art takes the visual and auditory shapes that society uses to communicate its values and reassembles them in a laboratory free from the dictatorship of inefficient, pre-programmed anachronistic cultural meaning. Dissassemble, reassemble. Without this cognitive process, nothing, repeat: nothing gets discovered. Art that is not a process of discovery is dead. Art that illustrates or mimics nature is dead. (We have cameras to do that, Mr. Kincaid)
Artists are outsiders. Only from the outside can cultural and cognitive determinants be analyzed and made accessible to greater efficiency. Only from the outside can the idea-shapes that define what we are be hammered into new tools to make us into what we can be. Any human who is not propelled by what is POTENTIAL for themselves, their family, their country, is a walking corpse.
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Dissassemble, reassemble. Without this cognitive process, nothing, repeat: nothing gets discovered.
Hmm...what did you Disassemble and then Reassemble in order to arrive at that brilliant conclusion? And, if you didn't arrive at this conclusion via your "reassembly" process...then is it invalid?
Another gem:
Art that is not a process of discovery is dead. Art that illustrates or mimics nature is dead. (We have cameras to do that, Mr. Kincaid)
What does this mean for all the photographers in the world that consider themselves artists?
Also, does that mean that all art prior to the invention of the film camera is dead art and without merit?
I was wondering when the pretentious douchebags that have been educated beyond their intelligence would come wandering around. You guys never disappoint.
Dissassemble, reassemble. Without this cognitive process, nothing, repeat: nothing gets discovered.
Hmm...what did you Disassemble and then Reassemble in order to arrive at that brilliant conclusion? And, if you didn't arrive at this conclusion via your "reassembly" process...then is it invalid?
Another gem:
Art that is not a process of discovery is dead. Art that illustrates or mimics nature is dead. (We have cameras to do that, Mr. Kincaid)
What does this mean for all the photographers in the world that consider themselves artists?
Also, does that mean that all art prior to the invention of the film camera is dead art and without merit?
I was wondering when the pretentious douchebags that have been educated beyond their intelligence would come wandering around. You guys never disappoint.