- Oh how I pine for the server battlefields, neatly separated maps divided in 30 minute increments of complete rushing; all out slaughter brought on by yours truly. Nights of endless, pointless destruction are a thing of the past for me, but the memories are oh so present. Idealized, raised to a higher level, much like childhood memories. Shit they are childhood memories. And I’m just starting to grow up…
- My drawing instructor wants our next project to have real substance, as opposed to previous assignments that have a certain overnight type of quality time invested. She is looking for, nay demanding we “push this project to the masterpiece level” with emphasis on narrative and subject. She told us she once heard that any piece of art that isn’t produced with some political/social intent its just vain and egotistical.
Lets take a look at the first piece I ever did in Photoshop. It reflects my personal work and direction from high-school on and is one of my personal favorites
Yup, vain
Vain? A valid opinion I suppose, but can she think for herself? What about art for the sake of art? What about Greenbergianism? What of Minimalism, Romanticism, Naturalism? Need I go on?
Nice work, by the way.
I think all of those catagories of art DID make social statements, in that they made society rethink how the looked at the world, since they were conveying concrete things in new ways. Art for art’s sake often doesn’t present anything new and is only meant to be sensational or controversial, gut reactions that require no thinking. Cubism makes me rethink of shapes and how I see the world, elephant dung on a stool does not.
–p.s. that was LadyofProcrastination (aka Melinda) not Ideambulate.