perspective
I FUCKING HATE YOU SUBSTACK GIRL
I FUCKING HATE YOU SUBSTACK GIRL
jealousy at thin-ness and white-ness and ease
if you remove empathy and open-mindedness- the two traits i would argue art alone can teach us- from the way medicine is practiced or policy is passed, what are we left with? it was cold, reasonable ‘rationalism’ that gave us slavery and has allowed the perpetuating of genocides the world over. the removal of humanness from our thinking has... See more
Ayan Artan • in defense of pretension.
Simulacrum
en.wikipedia.org
See: Perverts by Ethel Cain
Asian and Asian American Philosophers and Philosophies: Newsletter Spring 2022 - Special Double Issue on Japanese Aesthetics
cdn.ymaws.com“Bashō’s contemporary Tosa Mitsukuni (1617–1691) develops a similar theory regarding the art of painting. For him, the main purpose of a painting is mimesis, thereby repudiating factual errors, but it is “the spirit of the object” that the painter must grasp and present.10 Toward this end, the painter should omit certain elements, making the overall efect “incomplete” and “suggestive,” facilitating the presentation of the essential characteristics more readily, such as bird-ness. Most likely conscious of the teachings by Bashō and Mitsukuni, another painter, Tsubaki Chinzan (1800–1854), also claims: “[E]ven when painted with black ink, bamboo is bamboo; with red ink, bamboo is also bamboo. If the spirit of bamboo is embodied in the brush, the ambience of bamboo will naturally arise. This is the essence of painting.””