/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>1935455
>I like when people acknowledge that in art instead of ignoring and dismissing it like they do in everyday life.

I dont know many people that so easily overlook their problems. In fact, most people seem to dwell on ugliness in their lives and obsess about it. Art for me is a freedom from all the pain and the worry about life, and rejoicing in the beauty our spirit is capable of.

Schopenhauer I think came up with the best theory of aesthetics. The origin of suffering is our will constantly desiring, constantly striving, so we are never satiated. however, great art is a negation of our own ego, and instead connecting to the spiritual and the beautiful.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer%27s_aesthetics

>>1915818
>Walter Benjamin has an excellent insight on this problem of how we are getting stuck

I am aware of Benjamin. I go to one of the most conceptual schools in the U.S. and he is all they ever talk about. Those philosophers are actively seeking the death of Western art, Benjamin spoke about how technological reproducibility can finally kill the 'aura' that surrounds a physical piece of art, which he views as bad. All these leftist philosophers are for killing the Romantic idea of genius, because that would mean people are unequal, if not everybody could be an artist.

Of course as humans we all do the same things, but the ones we should be modelling ourselves after are the great men, not repeating what the usurpers say.

Nobody seems to understand that 'going back' isn't the same as copying them. Did the Renaissance achieve nothing new by looking back at classical greece and rome? no, they examined their ideas in light of their own time, applied them and came to some of their own conclusions, like the invention of perspective, etc. I think if we did the same for Romanticism, examining the framework of ideas they had which arose as a response to the Industrial revolution, and applied them now to our own 'technological revolution', we would be all the better and branch out from there. Thats what I'm advocating for