#art critics

[secretlyafiveheadeddragon]

I am nothing if not a lover of classic rock, a work-in-progress writer, and a hater of anyone who thinks art has to be good to have value

[itsawritblr]

I feel this scene so strongly.

The Office: Pam exhibits her art for the first time.

I love this because I've been there. Lord, have I been there, with both art and writing. Including the less-than-supportive boyfriend.

I love that Michael Scott, of all people, appreciates Pam's art as it is. He doesn't compare it with the rest of the work in the show. He doesn't care about the other art in the show. He just purely, innocently, admires her talent.

When you get right down to it, this is what all writers and artists want.

Raise your hand if someone's said of your art "Wow, that's free-hand?" and "It could be tracing!" Coming from people who can't draw, this is actually high praise. Of course, in this digital age not so many people recognize the significance of those compliments.

[postersbykeith]

[abwwia]

Susan Sontag (USA, 1933-2004)

Susan Lee Sontag (/ˈsɒntæɡ/; January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American writer, critic, and public intellectual. Sontag was born Susan Rosenblatt in New York City, both Jews of Lithuanian and Polish descent. via Wikipedia Diane Arbus, Susan Sontag alone on a bed. N.Y.C. 1965 Education:University of California, BerkeleyUniversity of Chicago (BA)Harvard University (MA) She mostly…

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Marta Traba

Art critic Marta Traba was born in 1930 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Traba was highly influential in the study of Latin American art and one of the most prominent contemporary art critics. Over the course of her career, she taught at over 20 universities, published 22 books on art history and criticism as well as over a thousand articles on topics related to art. Traba also wrote novels, the most famous of which was Conversación al Sur, a book about Argentina's Dirty War.

Marta Traba died in 1983 at the age of 53.

[maysamohamadart]

Paintings haunted by tired souls. Ashes..by Syrian Artist Maysa Mohamad

[potatotalksculture]

More thoughts on Disco Elysium

[SPOILERS for Disco Elysium ahead.]

I’ve been dubbed the “pretentious wanker” for internalizing the though about a art gallery with a name similar to some chocolate bar out of Charlie’s Chocolate Factory. I was hoping for something absurd or maybe written in an imaginary language. What I got is a (quite accurate) critique of the modern, high class art world. Like in Velvet Buzzsaw. Or the latest season of You, if you’re feeling pretentious.

And also my “Actual Art Degree” consists of colorful invectives. Nothing is good enough for the Art Cop. He criticizes everything. Everything is mediocre for him. Why is he like that? Is he part of the milieu at the Art Centre? Or was he never allowed to enter and that made him bitter?

I learn the philosophy presented in Disco Elysium as I go. At the beginning you wake up as a dude who knows nothing. He’s literally and metaphorically NAKED. You, the player, know as much about the character, the identity, the story, the cloths and the surrounding of this protagonist as much as he would know himself. Isn’t this a perfect starting point for an RPG?

I know nothing about RPGs. I never played any kind of pen and paper, nor did I engage in similar games that include creating an identity for your character and sticking to it. In theatre, at work, I prefer the logistics and managing over imagining stories and creating meanings. Communication is hard enough as it is. No need to over complicate it by including made up stories and character traits in it.

This are two reasons why Disco Elysium was perfect for me. (I have finished playing the game as I’m writing this post. The origin of this post is a draft I’ve written sometime while still playing.) I DIDNT HAD A CLUE HOW TO PLAY THIS KIND OF GAME. I was as lost as the protagonist.

As I moved through the world, interacted with figures and objects, I was learning the philosophy implemented into this game. Without looking into the fandom.com wiki, I think about communism and capitalism. There’s also moralism. And some form of neoliberalism, I think. Somewhere around the first or second in-game day I got the task to Rebuild the Communism. Me? The guy, who assumes he’s a detective but is not completely sure and who just some hours ago has found his second shoe? Sure, comrade! Let’s go! But wait! Now I also have some moralist pants on and… we’ll, get points for saying this or that.

The points system was the first thing that made me think more about the representation of the four different school of though within the dialogues. Capitalism is about making money, having money and seeing people though their monetary value on the market. Neoliberalism is about wanting the state to leave the people alone. Moralism is about being somewhere in the middle and trying to keep everyone calm. Communism is about sharing everything and eating the rich. Easy! Or is it?

As I was progressing, I kept losing track of the thoughts. I felt really drawn to the whole rebuilding communism concept, as a strong anti-capitalist myself, this school of though was closest to my own believes. But as soon as it was about violence and killing, I took a step back. This was not in sync with me. And since that’s how I’ve chosen to play the game, I started choosing the less violent, more non-descript dialogue options. This has brought me onto the Moralintern though. This got me thinking:

In real life, when your looking for a moral compass, it’s hard to a stick to one principle. Cuz usually the universal definition of the chosen philosophy is not completely in harmony with your personal believes. So more often that you’d like to you are confronted with some personal inconsistency. And with every consistency you learn something about yourself. The most of it being: You are not black and white. And so is the world you live in. Inconsistency is part of the reality. Evolving is part of being a human.

(Interestingly enough, when you interact with the books about Dick Mullen often enough, you enable a new perspective on the world. A black and white perspective, which proposes an insightful contrast between the real world and the fiction. You are not a fictional detective with all the evidence in front of you. And you also contradict yourself.)

And also: no philosophy within the game is only good or only bad, or rather explicitly positively or negatively coded. There’s the “lucky” racist that was supposed to grant wishes. There’s the brutality and bloodthirsty of communism which was supposed to be about sharing. There the brutality of the humanistic Dolores Dei, who was trying to do some people not human.

[afrotumble]

Kenyan Arts Review: JAK KATARIKAWE AN EAST AFRICAN IMMORTAL ARTIST

2018 article by Margaretta wa Gacheru.

May both she and Katarikawe rest in peace. She passed away earlier this year.

[sixofclovers]

theyre fighting a god in the morning

[artistic-cocoon]

Saw someone on twt say they wanted to see Percy drawn like Yusuf Dikec and I couldn't help myself

[itsawritblr]

Birthday Week Random Shit Queue.

The Office. Michael Scott visits Pam's first art show.

I love this because I've been there. Lord, have I been there. Including the clueless, less-than-supportive boyfriend.

I love that Michael Scott, of all people, appreciates Pam's art as it is. He doesn't compare it with the rest of the work in the show. He doesn't care about the other art in the show. He just purely, innocently, admires her talent.

When you get right down to it, this is what all creative folks want.

[addictedgallery]

Sacré bleu! Conservative critics were angered by ‘Last Supper parody’, but art historians say the performance looks instead to a 17th-century Dutch work, "The Feast of the Gods" by the artist Jan van Bijlert (1635-40).

Maybe its time for conservative critics to lie back and think of Dionysus instead 🤪

[claie171art]

Very stupid thing I drew a while ago about a phenomenon I noticed in fanarts.

This is the last time I draw anime boy sans btw, this was an absolute pain

[circle-of-wildfire]

arrival of dawn

[bixels]

Baffled.

[flawlessflesh]

thistle clowning around!