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Artwork Is Evolution
Posts: Joined: 2006-08-08
Through art, an idea becomes reality. Is it that easy? Yes, indeed, all that it takes is a dash of life or death, and an imaginative thought or emotion, intense enough to compel action. Love making is an act of art, a dance is an act of art, a murder, if you wish, is an act of art. Men conquer the world with the art of power. Women conquer men with the art of love.Everything a woman does to beautify her feminine being and everything a man does to gain more power is part of evolution.
Artwork is aesthetically generous, but non the less egoism is a basic part of its essence. Art is somewhat self-centered madness. In the nucleus of every creative purpose, there must be an underlying desire to conquer, to capture, to express, to replace, to influence people's minds, people's ideas, and even their living space.
Creating is merely a struggle for survival, for power, and for perfection, like the evolution itself.
Submitted on Wed, 2007-10-24 03:31
Destroying Destructiveness can be Art
I do not wish murder to be an act of art, thanks very much, because it is not creative, but destructive. Only special forms of destructiveness can be art: for instance, the damage inflicted with hammers on the Hawk jets by Angie Zelter and friends http://www.tridentploughshares.org/article78 could be considered as high art, but only because is was such a good thing to do, since it prevented a great many murders. Angie has never claimed her action to be art though, so maybe it wasn't. But Seize the Day made a great song about it: http://www.seizetheday.org/albums/itsYourLife/withMyHammer.cfm I have a niggling feeling that to be art, there has to be an element of co-ordination, not to say harmony and certainly not to say beauty because that would make me a laughing stock. It has something to do with the relation of the parts to the whole, a sense of unity. Or it does for me.
Submitted on Tue, 2007-10-30 19:35
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Martial arts have been in
Martial arts have been used in the past often as a way of taking a person's life in certain parts of the world and in this aspect a murder can be performed as an act of art. Basically that's what I meant by it.
Submitted on Tue, 2007-10-30 21:54
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hey L.W.
Do you have any restriction on what maybe considered as art and what not? Do you think if we call pretty much everything an Art, the term loses its meaning? or do we need a narrower definition of the term Art? and yes, Would you please pass me the phone number for your english teacher. might come in handy. you never know. ;-)
Submitted on Wed, 2007-10-31 22:27
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If we were to put
If we were to put restriction on what is or could be perceived as an art work, perhaps the only art work we'd know to this day would be drum beating and paintings on cave walls, or even worse - we wouldn't have such thing called art work. I do not put restriction on what can be called an art work. Art work is something in constant evolution, art can be both tangible and intangible. Art is an expression. Look around yourself. Every object that you see could be part of an art work. You can take your office desk, a mirror, a vase, a garbage bin.... put the vase on the place of the garbage bin, place the bin on top of your desk, put flowers in the bin and garbage in the vase. Set the mirror on your chair facing the computer, take a picture of all that and there you go- you have art work. To some it won't mean anything, to others it may be a striking revelation. Art work is an expression, an interaction between thoughts, emotions, visualization, and perception. I don't think that the expansion of artistic potential poses any threat to the meaning of art. Such expansion only intimidates the minds of those who fear change. Although I have quite liberal and eccentric understanding of art, I do have some judgemental limitations on certain nuances of it. For instance " le paysage".. .I really don't agree with the paintings of natural scenery. It's like duplicating the art work of nature. ps. Thank you for the compliment. :-)
Submitted on Thu, 2007-11-01 03:57
reply Art is art but art is not, thou art not an artist, Art...
[quote]Every object that you see could be part of an art work. You can take your office desk, a mirror, a vase, a garbage bin.... put the vase on the place of the garbage bin, place the bin on top of your desk, put flowers in the bin and garbage in the vase. Set the mirror on your chair facing the computer, take a picture of all that and there you go- you have art work. [/quote] [quote] do have some judgemental limitations on certain nuances of it. For instance " le paysage".. .I really don't agree with the paintings of natural scenery. [/quote]
Submitted on Mon, 2008-03-24 19:36
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http://potw.news.yahoo.com/s/potw/23115/strokes-of-genius
Submitted on Thu, 2007-11-08 20:47
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[quote]Through art, an idea becomes reality. [/quote] [quote]Is it that easy? Yes[/quote] [quote] indeed, all that it takes is a dash of life or death,[/quote] [quote]and an imaginative thought or emotion[/quote] [quote] Love making is an act of art,[/quote] [quote]a dance is an act of art,[/quote] [quote]a murder, if you wish, is an act of art[/quote] [quote]Men conquer the world with the art of power[/quote] [quote] Women conquer men with the art of love.[/quote] [quote]Everything a woman does to beautify her feminine being and everything a man does to gain more power is part of evolution[/quote] [quote]Artwork is aesthetically generous[/quote] [quote]but non the less egoism is a basic part of its essence[/quote] [quote]In the nucleus of every creative purpose[/quote] [quote]In the nucleus of every creative purpose, there must be an underlying desire to conquer, to capture,[/quote] [quote] to influence people's minds, people's ideas[/quote] [quote]and even their living space.[/quote] [quote]Creating is merely a struggle for survival, for power,[/quote]
Submitted on Mon, 2008-03-24 19:41
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Good Lord Billyuejjay !
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Good Lord Billyuejjay ! I am not attracted to you. Get over it! lol
Submitted on Wed, 2008-04-30 22:32
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