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as someone who has studied a lot of ancient art from the Mediterranean the best measure of a culture are the things that arent "necessary". what people do when they aren't just surviving is often the most meaningful display of who they are. in my opinion, creation is a cardinal trait of humanity; it's how to connect, it's how we communicate, it is how we find meaning. not only is gathering around art something essential to community which again is a cornerstone of humanity, but it makes people feel understood and seen. art is never useless!
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🎨so long as it is being created for the purpose of creation and communication. If this mural or art piece is an idea coming from someone higher up (someone who isn't the artist, someone looking to make the neighborhood "beautiful") then that becomes questionable to me. Artists create to communicate. If the goal behind this project is empty or rooted with ulterior motives, I don't necessarily think it's useless but it's contradictory to what artists might be trying to say. Often times artists are members of these communities looking for positive change. I don't think I'm wording this in the best way I can. I guess what I mean is that art has a time and a place and usually an artist is the person who decides the best time and place for it, not someone who wants to beautify a neighborhood they know nothing about.
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🗿Look, for a while I did not care about prehistoric art. It was hidden beneath the veil of primitivism. Let‘s rewire our contemporary brains and try to view the past a little differently.
When looking at prehistoric art, how do you feel? Does it make you excited to imagine a world before your time? Does it seem boring or even uninspired? Maybe you feel confused or disconnected due to the history between yourself and the work that stands before you. No matter how ancient works of art make you feel, it is crucial to learn and recognize the value and importance of these pieces and how they relate to the world around us.
Why is it so important? I mean, we are living in the future! We have 3D printers, self-driving cars, and infinite knowledge at our fingertips. Why should we be looking to the past? For starters, we can learn about ourselves by seeing what our ancestors did 10,000 years ago. Prehistoric art is a major influence on contemporary art. Ever since the discovery of cave drawings and ancient Egyptian tombs, artists have been inspired by their primordial selves.
The value of looking back is to learn about how it has inspired our own art. What we would consider art from the past, is influenced by the art of an even more distant past, and so on. We can learn about humanity and how we view the world just by looking at how we lived and created art throughout history. It is important to see where we started out so we can see where we are going in the future. Ancient art reveals historical details that we may not have been able to understand had it not been for the art created at the time.
All this to say remind yourself that people in the past were people like us, living life and making art. We aren’t so different from our historical siblings.
When looking at prehistoric art, how do you feel? Does it make you excited to imagine a world before your time? Does it seem boring or even uninspired? Maybe you feel confused or disconnected due to the history between yourself and the work that stands before you. No matter how ancient works of art make you feel, it is crucial to learn and recognize the value and importance of these pieces and how they relate to the world around us.
Why is it so important? I mean, we are living in the future! We have 3D printers, self-driving cars, and infinite knowledge at our fingertips. Why should we be looking to the past? For starters, we can learn about ourselves by seeing what our ancestors did 10,000 years ago. Prehistoric art is a major influence on contemporary art. Ever since the discovery of cave drawings and ancient Egyptian tombs, artists have been inspired by their primordial selves.
The value of looking back is to learn about how it has inspired our own art. What we would consider art from the past, is influenced by the art of an even more distant past, and so on. We can learn about humanity and how we view the world just by looking at how we lived and created art throughout history. It is important to see where we started out so we can see where we are going in the future. Ancient art reveals historical details that we may not have been able to understand had it not been for the art created at the time.
All this to say remind yourself that people in the past were people like us, living life and making art. We aren’t so different from our historical siblings.
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🖼To me... there is nothing more beautiful than human art! Unfortunately I think we have made enough of it and don’t need to make anymore.
Aug 1, 2024
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sleeping naked with crisp new sheets and a fluffy duvet. added points if you didnt tie your hair up. the post sleep only wearing glasses, drinking black coffee and doing things on your laptop hits 10 times harder. or maybe a crossword / sudoku / reading your horoscope from yesterdays news paper. very chic.
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read all the books on your shelf before you buy a new one.
listen to all your cds and records before you buy a new one.
wear your shoes into the ground until you buy a new pair.
burn all your candles before you buy a new one.
let your lucky pen run dry before you buy a new one.
let holes wear in your jeans before you buy a new pair.
create oportunity with the things that are already in your possession.
appreciate the moons that orbit around your day to day and give them attention.
make impressions in them, write on them, bend them, savour them.
and when your lost, look to these moons orbit and find yourself in the centre.
