Interesting argument. Why would any 'thinking' person "come at you? Those who would "come at you", are not human, they are denser. (See wot I did there?) I am a Thompson - ite. But, I truly appreciate a well mounted argument, and thus invitation to witness an alternate perspective. Your insight and verbal co-ordination are captivating. I am truly going to watch your episode a few more times so that I can broaden my own thinking. After all; Wisdom is the ability to understand another's perspective without espousing it. Even if you're dead wrong. <snickers in playful gest>. Well done! Your hard work in prep and post shows through. Please: Keep these coming.
I always appreciate old art and especially vids on em, as I havent heard of alot of these people and its always a great experience. Thanks a bunch for the vid!
It is the inherent error of all mystics to assert that they are one and same with God. Which I believe is why there are always two contradictory natures within the mystic which are never fully resolved. One of always reaching for absolute order. The other always delving into ultimate chaos... and the absurd struggle to attempt to balance the two. Waiting on the Lord, many become impatient and seek to find the Lord themselves. What they most assuredly find is that the Lord is not in any place accessible to human experience. Believing that God is not there, they then declare themselves to be God because if God can be found nowhere, we ourselves are God and everything within our experience is God... but then of course, if everything is God, then nothing is God. The ultimate experience of the mystic is cremation of care. Meaning... death to the spirit which witnesses, thereby eliminating contradiction by eliminating the one which sees it, feels it, knows that it is not whole, but broken. Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit... because that whole time, the seeker has been guided toward truth while at the same time rejecting what he sees, and ultimately rejecting even that most crucial part of himself that sees... that spirit which God gave him, that which reflects the qualities of God Himself. I love William Blake, though. He illustrates the path of the mystic so well. It's just a shame that he never seems to have found ultimate resolution. There is a certain type of freedom in "divine madness", but ultimately it is merely a glimpse of hell and our own iniquity. The only freedom is in the true Lamb, Jesus Christ. So simple. So nearly naive that it is an offense to those of high-mindedness. Yet that's how He comes... lowly and meek. A Fool even to the fools. With no form that we should desire Him. The lamb and the tyger are one and the same. They are the two faces of our adversary the devil. "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour." "And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light." The tyger is the true face of Satan, and we in and of ourselves as naive lost sheep can only be conformed to that image. It is the image of the world, the flesh, and the devil.
The juxtaposition of the Lamb and Tiger is, according to another video, about the contradiction that God could create something as innocent as a lamb and as violent as a Tiger
What a good discussion on the Tyger. I have a real soft spot for Blake so thank you for talking about him. I also love Blake’s depiction of the Tyger. He describes him as a fearful monster but illustrates him like a stuffed animal.
I'd argue that if you see politics in EVERY piece of art, then maybe you are simply artistically blind. You cannot tell me that a simple art made by a child is also political, for example. How are landscapes political? Some art is political. And the other art is only political if you want it to be. You can twist and turn whatever you see to fit into your belief system. That doesn't mean all art is inherently political.
Why do you care about other peoples man hours? I think you’re just jealous that you come up with it that you’re not smart enough to even build something like that that you can’t even comprehend or fathom what it’s used for you’re very ignorant person and I pity you do not suffice.
Thanks for this video. God is interested in what his children thinks Proverbs 25:2 KJV It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, but the honor of kings to search out a matter
ypur insights are refreshing and well[articulated/ I hope you may go on to extend them into other artist"s exemplars - Diane Arbus, Francis Bacon, deKooning, to cite a few
Rather a stretch to claim that power and wounds came from a portrait of Marlowe. Here's a man giving a feminist interpretation of the poem. Good for him. I think the poem, called just power, applied more broadly, too.
How are the ideas in this video, and even the concept of "naturalization" itself, not themselves mere artifacts, no more natural or real than what went before? Yet, you present them as if we have finally found the "Truth" (while you simultaneously lay a foundation for their deconstruction). Though I must admit, your explication of Durer's and Saville's paintings is brilliant. We are born a body; we do not exist without it. It exists before its conceptualization or representation. The classical Greeks, by the time the cultural artifacts we have from them were created, were not at this starting point, but they were fewer steps removed from it than we are. .
Great essay but I am surprised that you didn’t make much of sex and (given the cultural span of the essay) christian attitudes towards it. This is a story of men ogling women and the ideology you describe is in no small part a fig leaf (pun intended) to hide the perceived sinfulness or vulgarity of the transaction. This aspect is glaring in late allegories by salon painters such as Bouguereau, in whose work the lofty symbolism is at odds with the physicality of the bodies, which is the result of a centuries long arms race toward ever greater illusionism.
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Wow, this really expanded my horizons. As an artist myself, I am trying to understand what my goal should be in art, and this video is very helpful. Thank you. Do you have any book or video recommendations on the philosophies of art?
Sure. I like Danto (I have a video about his end of art philosophy) and I like Dewey's art as experience (video coming this fall). You can also check out The Anti aesthetic edited by Hal Foster. If you like Renaissance art, check out Baxandalls art and experience in fifteenth century Italy. Also get any book of Dave hickey essays or Linda Nochlin essays.
Am I the only one that sees nipples on her knees? I was surprised he didn't mention it. Knees don't have those round red bits on them. About the shoes - they look to me like slingbacks that had an almost flat heel, and quite comfortable being soft leather. Not high heels. I think these are just a pair of her own shoes.
