Artist and Aesthetic Activist
Even the song of birds, which we can bring under no musical rule,seems to have more freedom, and therefore more for taste,than a song of a human being. — Immanuel Kant A very tough slough of research, over very familiar territory, on Kant’s Beauty and the Sublime, and examination of his means of Taste and …
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In the mid-20th century these three forces––Kant’s philosophy, abstract expressionists, and the CIA––congealed ostensibly to champion freedom and originality, instead accomplished an undermining of art and consequently humanity. The connections and machinations are so complicated and obtuse it is hard to take them seriously, but it does make a difference in understanding them, at least in the sense of whether or not our culture evolves.
Kant’s idea of the sublime is that it overwhelms our imagination, one example is the mathematical sublime in which the magnitude is too much for us to comprehend, like unlimited stars in the Universe. It can be argued that postmodern artist Christo’s Umbrellas fit the definition.
In one of the most important aesthetic books, Kant separates the sublime from the senses and art. This is the first in Newberry’s series on Kant, which will cover far-reaching implications.
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Rinaldo Enchanted by Armida, 1742 until 1745. Was this the kind of work Kant associated with charms and sensual delights of beauty? Originally published online at The Atlas Society. Making Sense of Kant’s Senseless Sublime In the last decade of the 18th century Beethoven composed his 1st and 2nd piano concertos, Goya …
The Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant, translated by James Creed Meredith Every affection of the STRENUOUS TYPE (such, that is, as excites the consciousness of our power of overcoming every resistance [animus strenuus]) is aesthetically sublime, e.g., anger, even desperation (the rage of forlorn hope but not faint-hearted despair). [Emphasis in the …
Honored to have an excerpt from my upcoming book published with The Atlas Society. It is from the chapter, Those Who Destroy Art. Velazquez’s Venus is a painting of a toned, nude young woman seen from the back with a mirror reflecting her face, alongside a life-like cupid, an affectation of many mythological paintings. But if we …
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A Gorgeous Australian Day with my Niece and her Grandmother. They were sitting on a blanket chatting while I drew this. Colors by themselves are a kind of silly, stupid phenomenon, but when they are placed through space magic happens. Instead of the paper being flat it transforms into three dimensional space, feeling like things …
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Today’s pastel edit, layers of warm and cool colors instead of gray. Pastel has a great flexibility were painting does not, by layers you can reach the thing’s color, overlapping colors; for instance pale green with pink instead of just gray. With paint you have to mix the exact color. Funny tidbit, I researched color …
Moving the pastel vibrations around through space. I had a lovely day today. Washed my dog Frida, she is awesome, but loves to roll around in dry dirt. If it doesn’t exist she digs it up, rolls on her back and waves her legs happily in the air. Hard to get mad at her. I …
