/lit/ - Literature

>>22241144
Its because art was always about imitation of the past and trying to change it little by little into new forms. With just a round arch and an ogival arch you can basically create anything you want in western architecture from the classical period to the xixth century. Then that framework totally collapsed after the 1910s, and keep in mind that the new modernist styles were proposed by the same guys that were keen on drawing gothic revival town halls a few years before - its not "le degenerate society" that kills the artists, its the artists themselves many times who get saturated and sabotage when they no longer can innovate inside the self imposed limits of imitation.
Also, if we consider architecture to be the frame and setting against which all other forms and objects of art stand in a given epoch (architecture as the basis of the arts, which i believe was the general view in the past, and i agree), our modern paintig and sculpture turned into line-texture-color based (more like decorations) because our architecture itself got this exact treatment into line and fluidity rather than element-based (buildings are not a series of arches that repeats and come with the accompanying human-figure sculptures, buildings are one block grass skycrapper so it makes sense to fill the insides with paintings of simple black and red lines etc)
I also used to hate contemporary art but unironically adopting a chill attitude and viewing it in the same way as pieces of "fashion that you cant wear" -fashion is not art, but it has patterns, colors, combinations that are better than others - made me appreciate contemporary art much more.

>>22251887
Also this of course, if art works by imitation, you need to know your betters before you well and this is best achieved with these classical tutor based education models.

>>21801505
Why is every straightoid like this nowadays? I am gay and I never ever looked at a woman with anything but indifference both in visual attractiveness and in emotions.
Meanwhile every "straight" man nowadays is extremely conscious about what is attractiveness in a male and para-heterosexualities like trapianism and shemalianism are exponentially growing and perfusing the mainstream straighthood. Anedoctes of gays alluring straight friends into relatioships with them are starting to materialize - these things were laughable inner fantasies of the gays a mere 10 years ago.

Just got done talking to Narendra Modi on the telephone. I said
>Do you really think you're doing enough for the climate crisis? We're out here paying more than ever for basic goods and gas. Soldiers. These numbers make me sick. You wouldn't believe them.
He said
>To walk the fine line I walk takes more strength than you know. I'm troubled and on occasion I worry that I am too weak for this burden I've taken.
I said
>You know we may not always see eye to eye but you're a fine man Narendra Modi. Kind of man I hope my daughter marries one day.
We said our goodbyes and I suppose that things having little alternative will carry on much as they are. Happy Saint George's Day.

>>15915957
I'm hopscotching and I really enjoy it; honestly if you don't hopscotch, you're kind of missing the point and you'll be missing a lot of the experimental chapters, philosophy, art references, quotes, etc. The intertextuality of the book is enriched by the hopscotching experience.

Think of it this way:
If you don't hopscotch, you get a partial novel.
If you hopscotch, you get the full novel, but also a bunch of other fun stuff.

There is literally no reason not to hopscotch. I don't even know why Cortázar presents it as an option.

>>12516249
I'm not one of the people in the thread who thinks contemporary art sucks. However
>There are literally more skilled artists alive right now then there have ever been throughout history combined.
This is just not true