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The Aesthetics

I'll give you brief overview, but go light on history of art and art techniques...

THE AESTHETICS Art Theories I'll give you brief overview, but go light on history of art and art techniques. Art is commonly divided into abstract and representative. Cubism is abstract. Photography is representational. Abstraction often represents an emotion or idea, which can be confusing at first. Representational art can still be creative, particularly when what is depicted is a realistic fantasy. There is a color wheel with primary colors in the middle. Red, yellow, and blue are the typical primaries. These compose all other colors. The remainder are divided into hot and cool colors. Orange is hot. Green is cool. Purple is the only typical color that is both hot and cool. Black and white are called values. They can be used to create lighter and darker versions of all other colors until they become black, white, or brown. Brown is the most typical color because it is usually what you get when you mix colors. There is an art to mixing colors. The most basic thing is to mix light colors first and constantly clean your brushes with water or a special oil and napkins to avoid working exclusively with brown. Drawing is another style of art than painting. Two types of drawing are gesture drawing and evocative drawing. In gesture drawing the theme may be either abstract or some mixture between abstraction and representative. The goal of gesture drawing is to evoke something imaginative, shown by the gestures of the pen, charcoal, or brush. Evocative drawing is always representational, but can be done from memory. The goal is to capture the essence of the thing being represented. That gives you a sense of it. The major exceptions to the above are architecture, sculpture, and mathematical art which are focused on 3-d design and applications, and of course deeper history and technique like art critique and Fauvism. Guidance in Art? An unformed idea. Have style. Not to be literal. To make a design. How Do I Stick to a Particular Style? At first, you may find it useful to experiment and try different styles. You might try a few sketches and watercolors in semi-realistic and Cubist styles, then try a number of cartoons or even some messy-looking scribble-art. Then you may decide on a particular predominant style, like abstract art, emotional art, or realism. You may try different things, and what emerges is often many different works, or sometimes even many different sub-styles. Restraint at the very, very beginning allows the development of physical techniques. In one case someone may adopt a media-focused style of art that is very restrained and inspired by materials. In other cases, such as with pen-and-ink, watercolor and acrylic, these are some of the most physically unrestrained media. Artists will go through phases, sometimes inspired, sometimes uninspired. The media-focused artists may feel very inspired for a long time, and then enter a long period of unproductiveness. The unrestrained artists may feel the need to restrict their use of the media, and what follows is also a period of being uninspired. At these times inspiration is the most important thing. It may be important to develop particular cognitive techniques for finding inspiration. For example, the media-focused artist may pick a particular theme that always inspires them. For example, still-lifes, or paintings of watering cans, or lilies, etc. The unrestrained artist may feel they have to go through a particular ‘brain fog’ to get in the right mindset. Artists often do these things half-unknowingly in the moments they are most inspired. It may be wise to begin with the styles and media, and then when years of very carefully inspired work is behind you, you can look for inspiration in more cognitive techniques which you are now apt to consider. You can romanticize about the first impulses of creativity, and re-imagine over and over what inspiration means for your own individual creativity. Is Beauty objective? It's not objectively desirable unless you meet certain criteria of authenticity. Any authentic beauty might have certain predicted outcomes for people with certain desires and expectations. My conclusion then, is that ideal beauty is objective qua perception. That means, given particular perceptions, beauty will appear a certain way. But if everyone is completely different, then beauty is ‘in the eye of the beholder’. So, ideal beauty is objective qua perception insofar as people are not completely different. So people are different insofar as objectivity is qua difference. If people are only made of differences, then there is no ideal objective beauty, in which case, if there is beauty, it is not ideal. Philosophy of Art: Standards of Aesthetics To find an aesthetic judgment, we ‘adopt a standard aesthetic’, which could mean a mathematical standard of beauty as easily as something in your head. It gets pretty crazy, because heroin addicts and crazy people have standards of beauty too! There, now you have considerable knowledge of the philosophy of aesthetics. Are Humans Capable of Inventing Mathematical Forms? That sort of depends on whether human life is subjective. Theoretically, we could invent them if life was subjective. They could already exist even if we invented them. Frankly we have no right to originality, and yet we are some of the most original things. So, it is something of a paradox. Basically, invention can occur just by having an idea. The universe does not have a patent office we know of. In that sense, there might be no way to verify true originality. And in that sense, the only way to have an idea is to have an idea, even if it doesn’t seem original to us. In this sense, invention is not psychological unless it is a psychological invention. Part of being original then, is to imagine the concept. In this context, it might be impossible to invent something without having an established pattern of originality, like being human AND original. In that sense, the universe isn’t original, because it doesn’t think. But hypothetically it COULD think some different way. But that just means its a computer, or that it has some other race that thinks. Is the universe responsible for thought? The answer is, how could it be? For everything that thinks is a discrete thing that thinks, unless we think it’s a big brain that somehow does everything logically, perhaps for frivolity? Or maybe it is something that thinks slowly that benefits by thinking with humans? Then why don’t we have smarter ideas than what we think about? Is the universe just thinking of metaphysics, but not inventions? Then, how is the universe inventive? Evidently, everything that thinks is some discrete thing, or something that thinks its own way. In short, the universe is capable of invention not because of humans, but because of things LIKE humans, or things that think differently than humans and would invent something different, or which happen to invent the same things as humans through a different process. In the end, thinking may not be the only way to think. Perhaps that is why it is so confusing. NOTES What determines someone as a genius in the arts? Reputation. For example, pathetic things like whether the art has a frame, whether it looks like talent went into it (somewhat subjective). For example, if the art is in style, if it is big (if that is what they want), the price the artist seems to get away with, whether the buyer respects the subject and medium — some like landscapes or pastels, etc. some only buy abstracts that look like people. It can be partly luck or one’s knack for finding an audience. Being prolific enough to have work that many people own. For example, it is rumored Picasso was the only artist who out-produced all of his competitors combined. He became famous. Having buyers who treat the art with careful respect. Having enough shows or reputation for genius to convey the idea that one is a serious artist. Sometimes this happens very early, and then dies. Other times it lives on after a life of poverty, sometimes it looks like all the clients are corporate, sometimes someone remains a minor figure for a long time, sometimes it goes in and out like a style whether or not one is alive. Other times one may be completely ignored. Coppedge, Nathan 2017/06/30, p.
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