What is an Artist?

[vegetariantaxidermy]

What does this mean? I've never heard such a thing.

Hobbes does some great typos. Here's a gem from the 'banned in the USA' thread: 'Gods are naturally gregarious and bond freely with humans and all other dogs.' Love that.

Dyslexia and poor eyesight can have its problems when typing late at night.
Thanks for the sympathy.

Sorry. I only meant it in fun. The 'Gods' one genuinely made me 'lol', and I thought it was quite Freudian.

[Terrapin Station]

What does this mean? I've never heard such a thing.

Hobbes does some great typos. Here's a gem from the 'banned in the USA' thread: 'Gods are naturally gregarious and bond freely with humans and all other dogs.' Love that.

Dyslexia and poor eyesight can have its problems when typing late at night.
Thanks for the sympathy.

Jack Daniels, too.

[Hobbes' Choice]

Hobbes does some great typos. Here's a gem from the 'banned in the USA' thread: 'Gods are naturally gregarious and bond freely with humans and all other dogs.' Love that.

Dyslexia and poor eyesight can have its problems when typing late at night.
Thanks for the sympathy.

Sorry. I only meant it in fun. The 'Gods' one genuinely made me 'lol', and I thought it was quite Freudian.

Indeed. I do love my god... I mean my dog!!

[Hobbes' Choice]

Hobbes does some great typos. Here's a gem from the 'banned in the USA' thread: 'Gods are naturally gregarious and bond freely with humans and all other dogs.' Love that.

Dyslexia and poor eyesight can have its problems when typing late at night.
Thanks for the sympathy.

Jack Daniels, too.

Not these days, though I used to like the taste.

Not so long ago I won a bottle of JD in a bet. An Internet Warrior claimed that he could find any bit of information that was in the public domain. I challenged him to bet a bottle of JD.
After he agreed I asked him to tell me the maiden name of my Grandmother. He had to admit defeat but all credit to him he mailed me a bottle of JD from the US to my home in the UK.

[Walker]

Hobbes does some great typos. Here's a gem from the 'banned in the USA' thread: 'Gods are naturally gregarious and bond freely with humans and all other dogs.' Love that.

Dyslexia and poor eyesight can have its problems when typing late at night.
Thanks for the sympathy.

Sorry. I only meant it in fun. The 'Gods' one genuinely made me 'lol', and I thought it was quite Freudian.

Sorry, doesn't ring true. It was obviously deliberate, and highlighted.

Dyslexia is the first line of defense. The eyes, the late night, the weariness, the arthritic fingers clawing at the keyboard, the smokescreen, all bs.

Fess up, for your salvation. Artists are truthful. Focus on art, which is ever-accessible.

[Walker]

Art is truth and beauty

Definitely art
If you can’t feel it
Grow a heart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7jYzS7zB98

[Hobbes' Choice]

Sorry, doesn't ring true. It was obviously deliberate, and highlighted.

Dyslexia is the first line of defense. The eyes, the late night, the weariness, the arthritic fingers clawing at the keyboard, the smokescreen, all bs.

Fess up, for your salvation. Artists are truthful. Focus on art, which is ever-accessible.

You never fail to make a fool of yourself. It's quite a talent.

As for art i think I have a good relationship with it.

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[vegetariantaxidermy]

Dyslexia and poor eyesight can have its problems when typing late at night.
Thanks for the sympathy.

Sorry. I only meant it in fun. The 'Gods' one genuinely made me 'lol', and I thought it was quite Freudian.

Sorry, doesn't ring true. It was obviously deliberate, and highlighted.

Dyslexia is the first line of defense. The eyes, the late night, the weariness, the arthritic fingers clawing at the keyboard, the smokescreen, all bs.

Fess up, for your salvation. Artists are truthful. Focus on art, which is ever-accessible.

[Walker]

No really. Listen to the song.

It’s in the vibrational frequency.

She takes your ears so close to hurt with that voice that she's purdy.

Now say it. Say inherent.

[vegetariantaxidermy]

Art is truth and beauty

Definitely art
If you can’t feel it
Grow a heart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7jYzS7zB98

I'm surprised. I was expecting more tits-in-your-face. I love that kind of roots country music.

[Walker]

Hobbes, I can only say, your work is great. You have discovered the inherent non-conceptual qualities of the media. Your method is to focus on one little bit at time, and then this little bit, and then this little bit, pausing to shift attention back to the whole, then back to the specific.

[Walker]

Art is truth and beauty

Definitely art
If you can’t feel it
Grow a heart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7jYzS7zB98

I'm surprised. I was expecting more tits-in-your-face. I love that kind of roots country music.

Well hell, with my ears still ringing from Iris, I was once a vegetarian too. Damn don’t that just beat all. For morein 15 year, and morrin 15 year ago too. Wisdom told me the logic of livin in reality while walking the land of twinkies and how necessary, how arbitrary, and how set in stone that’s always been.

[SpheresOfBalance]

Sorry walker, but I have to primarily agree with HC, as much as it pains me to do so.

What art is best, is dependent upon what someone likes the most. It's subjective!
But, an art piece is an object and the method in which it was created might be extremely difficult and time consuming, such that only someone that is familiar with the process can sense the beauty of it's objective reality, which surely can factor into their subjective opinion as to it's worth.

Never apologize for your limitations, or for what you are.

I never apologize for my current limitations or what I currently am, as I am indeed aqueous, as at least I can fathom, sorry walker, that intelligent people learn until they die, realizing they are an artwork in progress, where they are both the sculptor and the stone at the same time. Where one starts and finish's to sculpt is arbitrary, saying absolutely nothing of the artists abilities. Still my value is subjective, dependent solely upon what it is that one is capable of sensing within my work. Unfortunate for them, it's true that many turn a deaf ear and a blind eye.

At the prices original name-art commands, there’s a whole lotta consensus in subjectivity. Does a consensus of subjectivity amount to objective truth? Of course not. The object d’art has objective qualities that are true to the principles of whatever the medium may be, as Hobbes knows. Fidelity to the inherent qualities of the medium is how Michaelangelo knew to remove all that was not the form envisioned in marble. Artists such as Duchamp were reactionary though he did possess technical skill. In other words, their work would have much less meaning unless connected with what preceded it, in art and culture. Realists in any medium require minimal audience participation. Naturalists exaggerate realism in any medium. Realism can also be romanticized, and there is market for that in the velveteen Elvis crowd where the viewer fills in the missing realism. A lot of modern art was academic reaction, distortions upon distortions upon distortions of realism. Meaning required context for appreciation, though early reactions to variations on realism had inherent quality without education, e.g., the experience of Cezanne’s use of advancing colors in the background, and receding colors in the foreground.

[Pluto]

The indoctrination of lived reality is so strong in people. They live the world of power. The artist is trying to show this - while opening doors and windows onto new non-power-dominated platforms. The meaning of the world (as defined by power) is constructed (it's obvious to say) in the power's favour (naturally). The artist sees that people come and go over centuries. Has the system been built. And is evolving. Thinking hard, the artist sees the real enemy as power always, throughout time. The artist is...

[Terrapin Station]

The indoctrination of lived reality is so strong in people. They live the world of power. The artist is trying to show this - while opening doors and windows onto new non-power-dominated platforms. The meaning of the world (as defined by power) is constructed (it's obvious to say) in the power's favour (naturally). The artist sees that people come and go over centuries. Has the system been built. And is evolving. Thinking hard, the artist sees the real enemy as power always, throughout time. The artist is...

I'm really just trying to put together (if I'm doing music) harmonies, melodies, rhythms, etc. that I feel are interesting and aesthetically resonant/entertaining/amusing, or (if I'm doing visual art) shapes, colors, figures, etc. that I think are interesting and aesthetically resonant/entertaining/amusing, and so on. I'm not trying to show anything about "power," or per someone else's comment, thinking about anything politically, or anything like that.