#death of the artist

[weirdlookindog]

Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen (1859-1923) - L’agonie de l’artiste (The Agony of the Artist)

illustration from Maurice Boukay's 'Chansons rouges', 1896

Voici mon amour épuisé… Adieu la vie! Adieu chimère! Berce-moi dans tes bras, ma mère. La nuit! La nuit! Mon cœur… Brisé! (This is my exhausted love…Farewell to life. Farewell chimeral. Cradle me in your arms, my mother. Night. Night. My heart… broken!)

[ruinstt]

rinniki again

[anarcho-sgathach]

Been thinking about how we basically don’t have folk culture anymore because of capitalism and the concept of the Artist. When someone writes a song, or a story, or a poem, we see it as the one true definitive version of that thing and as belonging to the artist. Then when someone rewrites the story, or changes the song, or adds to the poem, it’s ���fanfic” or a “cover version”. Separate and distinct from the original, rather than different versions of the same thing.

I’m sure some very smart people have elaborated on this at length, I’ve just been musing on it for the past few days.

[ohbandera]

Journal: Schrödinger's author

I think it is really important to be able to take a piece of art and look at it both from the angle of artistic intent as well as how it resonates with you.

It may be different for others, but my experience in most fine art classes(tm) was not to consider how I resonated with art, but to only really look at artistic intent. It would visibly upset professors if an artist had purpose for a piece but I saw it differently based on the context I consumed it in. Perspective can change the meaning of art entirely, and I feel like some people struggle to hold more than one meaning for something in their heads.

This kinda leads into one of my favorite quotes:

“That’s one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they’ll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons.”

― Dave Grohl

"death of the author" is often approached from too black and white of a perspective. When an artist puts their work into the world, do they lose authority over the perception of their work, or does their intent majorly influence said perception?

I like to call this "Schrödinger's author." The author is both dead and alive... because I believe the answer to "death of the author" is both.

Artist intent both matters and does not. It depends on the person consuming it and the context in which it is consumed.

Two people with completely different backgrounds can view a piece of art or media and see it in opposite ways... and chances are, they see it differently from the artist as well. However, if they are exposed to the artist's intent for the work, they may now hold more than one meaning for it in their heads.

I think now more than ever it is important to approach the art and media we consume with nuance. I've had my fair share of "this art sucks and I hate it, therefore it is bad and shouldn't exist" growing up... especially in school. This was almost entirely because I looked at it too black and white- either artistic intent was not exposed to me at all, or artistic intent was all I was encouraged to consider.

Some of this of course was an ignorance on my own part, and some of it was a critical failure in the American education system.

From my experience, critical thinking and nuance is not taught or encouraged in modern academic settings, and it is making for a less media literate population... The result is a society that is more susceptible to black and white thinking, propaganda, and misinformation. That, historically, is especially dangerous when applied to human art and expression.

[majestativa]

You’ve called I’m saving my own love.

[lary-the-lizard]

Wait wait wait, liking Taylor Swift music is now a red flag? Oof, shit, okay, um, what level of problematic is it? Like, don’t tread on me flags or I Don’t Do Politics problematic? Should I be hiding the fact that I like Taylor Swift music until after my politics are known?

[feefal]

Torn between life and death

[bebs-art-gallery]

© pet_foolery

[astrowarr]

after watching several povs, there's something so striking about the way mumbo died.

he dies at home, first of all, which is notable in its own right because so much of his time was spent running about, usually in pursuit of kills. he dies with grian, too— to a thing grian created, no less, but it isn't actually grian's fault for once.

mumbo dies in that tall tower and when lightning strikes, from all across the server, everyone looks. their eyes land on that tower, and everyone is watching. even in grian's perspective, you can see everyone at renwood mound, lined up and staring. those at the bamlands looked on too.

they didn't see mumbo die, but they saw grian's grief. grian, who, throughout this season, has seemed cruel and untouchable to those outside of his circle due to his involvement with and knowledge of the wild cards. they watch grian immediately crumble under the weight of mumbo's death; several of them even explicitly comment, "look at grian, he's grieving, he's in mourning."

i like to think that, until that moment, grian was almost god-like in their minds; now, though, he's the quintessential concept of humanity. grief can be religious if you do it right, after all. even beyond the grian aspect though, isn't this just the most despairing omen of what's to come?

i mean, there's something about this image of a man fallen from grace, crying out as he holds the mangled corpse of his friend in the home they made together, high in the sky, on display for all the world to bear witness to. and the world did bear witness, be it with pity, horror, joy... it doesn't matter, because they saw.

the canary curse has been broken, but this was a fittingly foreboding, tone-setting image that did a stunning job filling its shoes

[hanavbara]

death note 💀📝🍎 #デスノート

[mollymendoza]

COYOTE // Molly Mendoza

Sumi ink, gouache, gel pen on 7x10” Arches

For solo show at Nucleus House 1/10/25

[fiction-criminal]

If I had a cent for every time people use 'death of the author' incorrectly, I'd be giving interviews telling people that waking up at 5 am is the key to success

[landrylovesmatcha]

she’s everything 💕

tw: death mention

[hay-bails]

there are monsters nearby

[bethfuller]

jibaro.

find me on instagram!

[frogcroaks]

The four heads of the wyrm god