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i do stop - until the next time.
how about you?
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Also, with 4058 deviations available for the greater public, maybe I felt that I have already exhaustively done my duty
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noble of you to think of the public. i'm mostly thinking of myself - stimulating my brain cells with colours and shapes. i feel frustrated when i haven't done it for a while. but uploading stuff to da gives the exercise sort of purpose.
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Actually it's simply a matter of me as a human being having only a limited amount of daily concentration and focus at my disposal, which are actively being depleted during the day. Combined with the fact that my autistic brains have the agility of a supertanker, and supertankers are extremely un-agile as you probably know.
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hm, my autistic brain wants to 'play' at the end of the day. especially if the day has been too people-intensive or work-intensive. some minutes of 'gimping' restore the energy levels - especially if i'm satisfied with the result.
unfortunately, some times gimping has to be postponed until the next day or the weekend.
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"Dolphins play, orcas bully other creatures around". I'm afraid that playing isn't my strong point and never has been. I have this insatiable appetite for struggle. I love steep learning curves - preferably overhanging cliffs
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to each their own (way of entertainment) - you can grumble, i can play - as long as everybody is happy.
otherwise the process sounds familiar - we only call it with different names.
but i don't think you can tempt me with russian ideology/propaganda - i got too much of it in my first 14 years.
when it comes to art or 'art', i'm not very interested in the ideology/theory/contemporary context. the only thing that matters is the impression it leaves me with. i don't want to put it into words.
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I have pretty much the same attitude towards art: either it makes an impact on my psyche or it doesn't. No need for lengthy art-historic elaborations. I don't care. There's a museum near where I live that has a painting that apparently represents a breakthrough in late 19th century art, which makes it "great". The only problem I have with it is that as an artwork in itself it's utterly mediocre. It leaves no impression on me whatsoever. And I wouldn't like to be tricked into looking at it as a great work of art just because its role in art history.
With Russian Cosmism it's a different thing. It's a curious mix of Christianity and Theosophy, which happen to be philosophical-ideological opposites, if not enemies. I don't care too much about Christianity, I'm not diametrically opposed to it but it isn't that much my concern either, but Theosophy, as one of the more ideologically aggressive manifestations of "mysticism" (New Age, blah blah), really stands for pretty much everything I don't believe in or believe is harmful to the human psyche and society in general. Yet at the same time some of the artists whose work I admire most (Ensor, Malevich, Kandinsky, Mondriaan, Scriabin, Roslavets) were deeply involved in it. Two of the key notions that drove these artists, also found in Russian Cosmism, were (a) their art was capable of "spiritualizing" material reality1 and (b) the Holy Task of an artist is to create life. There's a Mondriaan in that same museum nearby, and trust me, if you stand in front of it you might feel that it is indeed really ALIVE. Or at least I did. So there's ample room for curiosity here. Plus it gives me a chance to work on my Russian
1 This one's hilarious, about Scriabin:
" Scriabin considered his last music to be fragments of an immense piece to be called Mysterium. This seven-day-long megawork would be performed at the foothills of the Himalayas in India, after which the world would dissolve in bliss. " - www.scriabinsociety.com/biogra…
Malevich too believe that through the sheer transformational power of his art, by the end of the 20th century the world would have transgressed from a material phase into a spiritual one. Which obviously hasn't happened (yet), but nonetheless, interesting idea
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it looks like specific aspects of perception make people tick in different ways. the more sensitive a person is to something, the stronger the 'ticking'. sometimes one is transfixed by extacy, and the brain is trying to find an explanation. but getting one's brain overstimulated is not the same as creating life. a tallented person can extract combinations of sounds / shapes / colors / tastes etc. that have stimulating quality. but they are not creating life. they are in the drug industry - they create a virtual reality by (over)stimulating people's brains. (probably this is just another theory)
i'm still not tempted to delve (into) art philosophy. getting an occasional high by perceiving the art is enough.
as for the different theories, it is interesting to see what people are getting up to
i usually exercise my russian in other ways - youtu.be/cHeRDRAxowQ
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You could refer to this "life" in art as a capacity of generating an internal resonance in the viewer. It could be said to mark the difference between a nice picture and a true work of art, although the personal experience that lies at the basis of such an argumentation makes it of course highly subjective. What has struck me most personally about the art of undisputed great artists is the amount of skill involved, as in control over the medium, plus the amount of focus and attention that obviously went into it. Art as "canned attention".
Ahh, Russian music, you either love it or hate it. For once I think I'll take the diplomatic approach and keep to myself which side I'm on
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this is something new
i wonder what i would have thought of it, if i hadn't grown up with it. but not liking it now will be like not liking myself, which can't lead to anything good.
you don't need to be diplomatic. and you don't need to have or express an opinion either. if the thing doesn't exist in your universe, it is beside the point. it would be much worse if someone insisted on playing it to you all the time. then you would have to take a stand
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Raiden & Proket aren't too bad, if you like industrial drum & bass: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhXUtJ…
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I tried GIMPing some stuff earlier this evening, but "it" just isn't with me these days. I'm currently in Input Mode, absorbing tons of Russian anti-Western propaganda and trying to fathom the depths of Russian Cosmism, which seems highly useful for understanding what exactly what made Malevich and Kandinsky tick. It's basically New Age avant la lettre, something my rational-oriented mind tends to struggle with, not because it's so complex and challenging, but because in the end mysticism is just plain dead boring (like the endlessly repetitive Sufi music designed to put people in trance, which it probably does very well, I just personally don't find it a great listening experience). But if it played a role in the art of those two artists there must be at least something in it, so maybe I just need to keep digging
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