/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3745831
>I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself, forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

>>3756589
>Is talent real?
who cares?
>Am I doomed to fail?
existentially, biologically, etc.. yes.
> Is there even a point in trying when there are toddlers shitting themselves who can draw better than me?
one must imagine Sisyphus happy

>>3748136
>time is entropy
damn that's weird I was just spacing out thinking about entropy and I click on this tab and blamo we talking about entropy now bois
>implying you are somehow above entropy
No. That's silly as shit. We are experiencing a brief glimpse of a causal chain of reactions in one microscopic chunk of a possibly infinite system in space. We aren't above entropy. We ARE entropy.
>implying other artists aren't also painting every day
I assume they do. Most of the good or notable historic ones throughout history often did. The more time you spend doing it the more time you're creating opportunities to learn and adapt and think about and stuff.
>thinking you're special and we should all give up
No! My point is that no one is special and never give up! Myth of Sisyphus my dude.
>being naïve enough to think you're the only artist in the world
now I feel like you're just talking about your own stuff.
>being double naïve enough to think they haven't been doing it longer, and CONTINUE to do it
Who? What? Why would I think people haven't been doing something longer than like 2 years? Are you maybe schizophrenic or schizoaffective or something?
>Jimmy the world doesn't revolve around you and your art.
Yeah no shit. Seems weird you felt the need to even stress this. Was this a new discovery for you? Are you projecting your narcissism at me?
>If you stopped today nobody would remember to care.
Duh. That's generally how work works. Relevant VG quote: "If I am worth anything later I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning."

>>3714739
>Entropy is stagnation, I don't see how it is "waste". Like you are bringing some kind of value system into this, based on what?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_entropy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreversible_process
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_and_life
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_and_life#Entropy_in_psychology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(order_and_disorder)

stagnation has nothing to do with it. i don't really know what stagnation means to you.

>I don't see how it is "waste"
Like everything is happening right NOW as this explosion of energy and life being hurled through space. That's what the present is. Everything after right NOW is kind of waste.
>You might want to incorporate nihilism into this,
Absurdism is a reaction to nihilism. The whole point of camus' myth of sisyphus essay was like "ok, there's no objective meaning and nothing matters, what next?" And the conclusion is essentially that we just create the rocks we push up the hill. idk it's a good read.

>. You might say there is entropy in experience,
yes
>How all this ties in with you painting memes is totally unclear.
memes are part of communication and history and stuff.
>It's absolutely obvious that you are inhaling various fumes and philosophizing heavily on your own activity to make this whole "poject"
t square
>but to an outside observer it doesn't have the same appeal.
that's why it's gotta be aggressively marketed and entropied down everyone's throats.
>make a time capsule or something at least
me me im thinking bunker in the desert

dang haven't done any b&ws in a while

>>3592509
I just like the production. Nothing matters. We create our purpose.

One must imagine sisyphus happy.

>>3587626
>Make up something that is both pretentious and white trash at the same time
Jimbeaux
>Do a 2 name las name like Van Gogh that also references the Myth of Sisyphus.
Buck Stone

Jimbeaux Buck Stone

>>3585140
>Thank god talent isn't real and it's just starting at 3yo while being taught by someone extremely skilled. Now that I know that I can redo my life and start being infant again.
Well that's if you wanted to literally go down in recorded history as one of the best ever, yeah your whole dang generally has to have been dedicated to it.

But again it's about drawing anime tiddies or whatever, not being the greatest in the world. My point was that EVEN among the most extremely talented people whose entire lives were dedicated towards some bullshit, some are just naturally a little better or smarter or whatever.

Talent is an extension of intelligence. If you're fucking dumb or deficient in various aspects of intelligent you may be less "talented" than someone that isn't. Or more.

Everybody shits different.

>It's all the same unachievable thing.
Yeah like "winning a war on terror" or whatever. The means towards not being useless is to just set daily goals that can be achievable.

>Time is entropy,
>and "talent" is a construct.
>Art is production.

>>3578403
>since it reminds me to the Myth of Sisyphus
closest thing I have to religion

>>3577536
What's over?

>>3574271