| | While this of course is a distillation of the essence of aesthetics of The Romantic Manifesto, it allows for concise viewing of the problem facing contemporary artists... the past is history, largely one of ignorance, in which these mixtures of individual vs. tribal mindsets run amuck within almost any of the works, and which 'masterpiece' often refers to the particular advancement of technique of the time, not the philosophical greatness if any... the artists of today, however, who recognise the inherent quality of realism, but who do not wish to 1) be propagandists, or 2) imitate the staleness of the classicists, whether in compositional form or subject matter, but who recognise that 3) mere doing scenes of the world is as much a matter of regurgetation as reviving mythological figures - can then, finding themselves questioning the nature of being an artist, turn to this distillation as a solution and a way to their future.......
What to make, for instance, of this -
"Reared Window"
or this -
"Wish Area"
or this -
"View Master"
or even this -
"Bearly There"
or this -
"The Yearning Tree"
What kind of sense of life is viewed? in what ways are these like ones of the past - or are they? is there a projection of metaphoric importance - or is there overblown triviality? and how do they affect the viewers who see them - and why that affecting and not another?
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