The Women of Pre-Raphaelite Art | Art & Object
Art is not an object, but a special kind of communication between an artist and an audience. It’s a communication for when words won’t do. For when you want to communicate something more interesting, nutritious, complex, or strange. But since high bandwidth telepathy doesn’t exist yet, a mediating object needs to be crafted to articulate this commu
... See moreIan Cheng • Emissary's Guide To Worlding
These artworks have the capacity to alter our perceptions: of ourselves, certain concepts, the history or present or future of the world. Many of my favorite visual artworks reorient my perception of beauty (making a beautiful thing boring, making an ugly thing interesting); many of my favorite literary artworks change my perception of morality (by... See more
Celine Nguyen • good artists copy, ai artists ____
Display embodies beauty and expressiveness often united with a zany grace.
Robert Bly • Iron John
Many of the greatest Medieval and Renaissance paintings can also be seen as a form of imaginative soul-craft. Raphael’s School of Athens, for example, is imprinted on my soul (through endless gawping at the poster of it on my wall). It’s a portal between the sensory and the spiritual world, connecting us to Raphael’s ideal city, where the philosoph
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