/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>6986441

getting some https://www.gutenberg.org/files/174/174-h/174-h.htm
vibes from this post.

However, I don’t propose to discuss politics, sociology, or metaphysics with you. I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. Tell me more about Mr. Dorian Gray. How often do you see him?”

“Every day. I couldn’t be happy if I didn’t see him every day. He is absolutely necessary to me.”

“How extraordinary! I thought you would never care for anything but your art.”

“He is all my art to me now,” said the painter gravely. “I sometimes think, Harry, that there are only two eras of any importance in the world’s history. The first is the appearance of a new medium for art, and the second is the appearance of a new personality for art also. What the invention of oil-painting was to the Venetians, the face of Antinous was to late Greek sculpture, and the face of Dorian Gray will some day be to me. It is not merely that I paint from him, draw from him, sketch from him. Of course, I have done all that. But he is much more to me than a model or a sitter. I won’t tell you that I am dissatisfied with what I have done of him, or that his beauty is such that art cannot express it. There is nothing that art cannot express, and I know that the work I have done, since I met Dorian Gray, is good work, is the best work of my life. But in some curious way—I wonder will you understand me?—his personality has suggested to me an entirely new manner in art, an entirely new mode of style. I see things differently, I think of them differently. I can now recreate life in a way that was hidden from me before. ‘A dream of form in days of thought’—who is it who says that? I forget; but it is what Dorian Gray has been to me.

Before one can master late 2000s style... one must first master 90s STYLLLEE...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCiDuy4mrWU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKURxNMi2xA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aIla6GwOE4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4vjJrGeh1c
BUT LITERALLY
OP
you are already living in today; dont glorify the past.
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought"
"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is today"
"Society grows great when old men plant trees under whose shade they will never sit"

Also watch "Midnight in Paris."

sure