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[smii-doodles]

Isn’t it funny how you can probably tell a lot about what an artist looks like based on features they subconsciously add to their work?

Like how artists with thin hair probably don’t draw many characters with thick hair bcos they’re mentally referencing themselves for what a hairstyle would look like. Or artists with a very unique nose shape will draw characters with that nose shape a lot cos it’s just a normal nose shape when they have it. Or how artists with moles or freckles probably add those features more often than artists without. Artists who wear glasses probably draw specifically the glasses style that they wear more than any other because it’s the easiest to get reference for

…And you can also generally tell what an artist DOESNT look like by features that look awkward in their pieces. Like when a characters hair looks like a solid piece rather than looking like there’s a head under there bcos that artist so clearly didn’t get a reference for what that hairstyle might look like irl. If a chubby character looks really unnatural it’s probably bcos the artist isn’t chubby and hasn’t done their homework. If a character has facial hair and it just looks bad then they probably don’t have facial hair because otherwise they’d probably have more experience drawing it.

It really makes me think a lot about subconscious biases I might have in my art without realising and abt how we accidentally create representation of ourselves in our character art when we don’t see our features represented by media.

[teravarna0]

Importance of Abstract Artwork in Modern Art

The origin of abstract artworks has changed the way we look at modern art in general. It was a significant shift from the traditional painting styles and allowed the artists to go beyond the references to real-world objects. Depending on the choice of artists, abstract paintings can be quite simplified or filled with complex shapes and patterns, pulling your attention to the composition. 

It has been almost 100 years since abstract art came into existence. Not to mention, it was quite a radical transformation at the time of its origin. However, despite being around us for so long, many artists as well as art collectors and lovers still don’t feel comfortable exploring this unique form of art. Many people do not understand its significance and how it has revolutionized our perception and ways of perceiving artworks. In this blog, we will explore some unique reasons that would help establish the importance of abstraction in present times. 

Creating Abstract Artwork Offers the Freedom to Explore

Since this art style steers away from the traditional style of creating fine art paintings, it also offers more room for artists to explore. It is an independent style of art that doesn’t rely on illustrations or representations from the real world. Hence it frees artists to explore the depths of their own thoughts, creativity, and perception of art with these paintings. 

Elevates the Burden of Accuracy and Realism

Artists often feel scared of taking up difficult compositions out of fear that they may not be able to depict them accurately. There is always a looming fear of doing justice to the subject that they want to depict. However, with abstract artworks, this fear can take a backseat. It puts them at ease because they do not have to worry about the accuracy of the depiction. An artist can always create abstract paintings with unintended inspiration and no worries about accurate depiction. 

An abstract painter might look at a room full of people and decide to paint it only with geometric shapes and patterns. Instead of using accurate proportions to draw human figures, they might choose to only paint their silhouettes or just create random patterns in different colors to express what the room makes them feel. 

It Encourages Viewers’ Involvement

Unlike other schools of art, you cannot take a glance at an abstract painting and tell what it is about. To truly interpret the painting, you will have to observe the composition and study the nuances of its colors and shapes. It compels you to engage with the work. You will have to spend time with the painting and then look within yourself to decide how it makes you feel. Depending on your emotions, mood, and feelings, you can interpret it however you feel it best.

What makes it even more beautiful is the fact that abstract art is always open to interpretation by the viewers. A painting that may make you feel gloomy might be inspiring for someone else. Every individual is free to interpret an abstract composition as they wish and none of it is ever wrong. The open-ended nature of these paintings has made them an interesting choice among viewers and modern art collectors. 

It is not a Hall Pass to Skip Technicalities

If you think abstract art is your free ticket to creating artwork without any basic knowledge of art, you couldn’t be more wrong. While it may seem like a random canvas of colors and patterns it is not. If you look at any famous abstract art of old masters, you will realize that they are well-thought-out art pieces. Just because they had the freedom to explore, they didn’t forgo basic rules like the color theory, balancing of the composition, and other minute details. They were just smart enough to camouflage these rules under the cloak of abstraction and wilderness. 

Abstract Art is a Legitimate Form of Art

If you are still worried about the legitimacy of an abstract artwork, wondering if it truly is art or not, you can now set that worry aside. Abstract art is a perfectly legitimate piece of art and it was established years ago after different abstract art movements emerged and taught people why they are relevant. 

To elaborate on this point further, think about what art truly means to you, or anyone else for that matter. Most people call it a means of expression and an outlet for freedom. Since it is a mode to freely express then how can we limit it to real-world objects or anyone’s idea of what art is? The core of art lies in its adaptability, flexibility, and creativity and it can vary for every individual artist. 

Abstract Artworks Are Changing The Perception of Modern Art

With the adaptive and dynamic nature of abstraction, it is slowly gaining popularity among art collectors. Even though many people still do not understand it, it is now gaining the recognition it truly deserves. With efforts from different art galleries like TERAVARNA, which often organizes abstract art competitions and different exhibitions, people have started embracing it with open-heartedness. If you have come this far, I hope the blog might have helped you change your perception of abstract art and help you understand why it is so important.

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[paranoid-poppies]

Early morning

When I woke up today I had tears on my cheeks and in my eyes

They tasted like the lemonade we made in the summer and change

The school in my dream had spoken in tongues different from the ones I’ve learned

And my friends there left as quickly as they came

Pleas in what sounded like gibberish spilled from my lips and met my pillow in the same way as the tears

Begging my parents to put me somewhere else where I felt like I belonged even a little bit more

My pillowcase is damp now as I dry off my face

Unaware, he snores beside me, eyelids fluttering, chapped lips parted slightly

I touch his skin and it is the only thing that keeps me grounded when everything spins

He is the only one that will know what the red dots on my calendar mean,

The only one that will know that the small hearts mean him

And hopefully he knows that I could never make them big enough to sum up the affection that truly lives inside of me

How wonderful it is to be loved like this

How unfamiliar

How different it is from the dark fog of my mind in 8th and 9th grade

I haven’t learned much since then

And I still don’t know anything really

Only that I love my boyfriend like blood loves a knife; aching and struck red by the Sun revealed at long last

And that my family raised me to believe knives are bad

[paranoid-poppies]

Wings

Amid the cries of a fallen angel

There echoes the sound of a mourning mother

She begs for an end at the feet of the reaper

And exists the same as all the days before

She weeps, she screams

For her child has changed

But maybe for the better

Without warning came trumpets and banners that flew

“I’m different!” The angel shouted

Thinking this was the answer

The solver of problems, of worries and woes

Mother and father

They disagreed

They held their ears

Begged for an end

Squinted and questioned

“Who are you again?”

The angel, they whimpered, confused and afraid

Were these not their parents?

The people who taught, cared, and loved?

This woman and man, who were they if not?

Retreating on wings to their haven, safe at last

Confined and understood at least they had that

The people who talked, worried and helped

This was their family, without even a doubt

Thunder, lightning, questions, it rained

The mother and father they asked again and again

Without satisfaction they took the angel’s wings

Convinced without flight everything was explained

“A feeling!” The angel cried, “a thought in my head!”

“These people I’ve talked to, they heard what I said!”

“Understanding, relation, they know how I’ve felt!”

“They helped when I thought I couldn’t be helped!”

Silence, not one single word

The mother fret, the father read

Desperately turning thoughts through their heads

How could it be?

Our angel so sweet?

Trapped with the mind of a demon so mean?

“You’re lying,” they announced, matter of fact

“This isn’t the truth, this author proves that”

Papers and words and books and things

Page after page to justify disbelief

Not knowing who’s thoughts were whose

The angel now doubted the melodies they blew

“Did I lie?” They thought, “was I too hasty to speak?”

“Should I have waited more days or more weeks?”

The angel now mourned, hiding again

Bloodied and torn flesh on their back, wings lost to the wind

A feather in hand, a tattered lifeline

A beacon of hope in the dark of the nights

Plotting for futures that came and went

“Should I keep going like this? Can I reach the end?”

The feather, it twisted and turned

Their clammy grip kept it tight

Reluctant to lose more but too weak to fight

[adrakshahd]

13 June, 2024

am I doomed to write

with fire around my fingers

and what of my soul?

will it be a puzzle always,

for me to decipher?

every puzzle peice has a different

color, upbringing, dream.

and past, what of it god?

Eleven year old me is running

as fast as she can, still.

her feet is all red,

covered in blood and blisters.

They’re everywhere god,

everywhere, every turn I take,

I find them standing before me

and they say my sadness is not big enough

compared to theirs, should it be big enough

for me to feel it, god?

should my sadness also learn

to shape itself according to them,

so that it can be felt?

past, god

it has its claws around my ribs

I can feel the cracks,

the sound of bones cracking,

muscles melting,

blood boiling yet my skin feels cold.

they tell me to ignore it,

to not feel it,

to be mature and deny it the permission

to affect me, is that possible god?

How will it ever leave me

if I don’t let it pass through me,

like a river,

waves crashing against my living heart?

this fire, god

I am courageous enough to cross it

with my bare feet,

but if I let it, it’ll burn me to the ashes.

[djvpensayosehistorias]

On Art History

Art history is the knowledge and study of art. To interpret and analyze art, its characteristics, its reason of being, its function, it has to be placed in a context, and it is the context of its production that informs about its value as human activity. To do history about art is to relate it to the culture that produced it, to learn about its geography, to place it in the chronology of its evolution. Art history, then, follows a methodology that aspires to be as scientific as possible, and so it adapts to evidence, emerging technologies and evolving sensibilities. Kleiner outlines several criteria used by art historians, such as age, style, subject matter, authorship, and patronage, to learn about an art object or an artwork’s history, about what it represents about its culture and human history at large.  

Art is an activity best defined by its function: it communicates, it expresses a message. To somewhat narrow it down, art pertains to culture, which is largely understood as all human activity. Before what anthropology considers civilization, there were examples of people creating iconography, communicating a message that might have had some relevance, some practical function, as it is speculated. Art too can be created for mere pleasure, as the manifestation of personal will, of identity. Whether art is an individual or a group benefit, it is not an either/or question. Art is a social activity. It can take the form of small objects or large buildings, it can be manifested in many aspects of society. As it is a social activity, it has value: material monetary value and intangible cultural value. 

Art is in dialogue with other disciplines of knowledge. When doing art history, it is important to determine when an artwork can serve as an historical object - because it is part of an antique infrastructure or it depicts a historical event - and when it serves a communicational purpose that is not historically accurate. It can represent ideas - or ideals, more precisely - just as it can represent observable reality. Emmanuel Leutze’s Washington Crossing the Delaware conveys not a historical occurrence, but an idea about a historical figure. This same dynamic applies, more clearly, in representations of mythology and religious texts, which are taken as different from historical facts, yet they serve an ideological purpose, and they can inform much of a society’s history. 

Art history is a discipline that intertwines the often literary and subjective world of art and the scientific exercise of history. The purpose of art history is, as it is of any research, to better understand humanity using the totality of the past, the cumulative corpus of creative activity. It examines perspectives, ideologies, temporalities, norms, hierarchies, and therefore it is a valuable branch of the social sciences.

Reference

Gardner, H., Kleiner, F. S. (2017). Gardner's Art Through the Ages: A Concise Global History. United States: Cengage Learning.

[tuurverheydepoetryandprose-deac]

In some corners of the internet there is a readiness to call anything pretentious whenever it is complex, abstract or deliberately alienating. Some people are also eager to claim that artists are too self-serious, snooty and elitist whenever they create something that is not straightforwardly understood.

They pretend art has always existed to appeal to the greatest number of people and appeal in a way that is simple and explicable. If you look at the history of art that could not be further from the truth. Even art that was performed to an ‘illiterate’ public often maintained layers of meaning and ambiguity throughout long periods of history (just look at the global historical traditions of oral storytelling)

The simplification of art and the expectation that everything should appeal to a wide audience is the result of commodification not democratisation. Art has arguably never been less revered than now and still there are people who think it has further to fall in esteem. Just look at the AI movement’s desire to undermine artists while stealing their work.

I believe that the ‘it’s not that deep’ crowd who is eager to wield the accusation of pretentiousness whenever something doesn’t connect to them is part of an anti-artist, anti-intellectual movement to do away with mainstream non-consumerist (non-recuperable) art.

There has been a concerted effort by corporations and those purely interested in consumerism to erase the notion that art is primarily a human expression that is not necessarily made to pander to a wide audience. Every day we see more efforts in the social media & technological culture wars to devalue art and demonise artists who wish to create artistically fulfilling works rather than crowd-pleasing content.

I think we need to push back harder against this. The anti-complexity consumerist mindset is not only incurious and subservient to corporations, it’s also anti-intellectual, anti-cultural and insidiously reactionary.

[hamletthedane]

I was meeting a client at a famous museum’s lounge for lunch (fancy, I know) and had an hour to kill afterwards so I joined the first random docent tour I could find. The woman who took us around was a great-grandmother from the Bronx “back when that was nothing to brag about” and she was doing a talk on alternative mediums within art.

What I thought that meant: telling us about unique sculpture materials and paint mixtures.

What that actually meant: an 84yo woman gingerly holding a beautifully beaded and embroidered dress (apparently from Ukraine and at least 200 years old) and, with tears in her eyes, showing how each individual thread was spun by hand and weaved into place on a cottage floor loom, with bright blue silk embroidery thread and hand-blown beads intricately piercing the work of other labor for days upon days, as the labor of a dozen talented people came together to make something so beautiful for a village girl’s wedding day.

What it also meant: in 1948, a young girl lived in a cramped tenement-like third floor apartment in Manhattan, with a father who had just joined them after not having been allowed to escape through Poland with his pregnant wife nine years earlier. She sits in her father’s lap and watches with wide, quiet eyes as her mother’s deft hands fly across fabric with bright blue silk thread (echoing hands from over a century years earlier). Thread that her mother had salvaged from white embroidery scraps at the tailor’s shop where she worked and spent the last few days carefully dying in the kitchen sink and drying on the roof.

The dress is in the traditional Hungarian fashion and is folded across her mother’s lap: her mother doesn’t had a pattern, but she doesn’t need one to make her daughter’s dress for the fifth grade dance. The dress would end up differing significantly from the pure white, petticoated first communion dresses worn by her daughter’s majority-Catholic classmates, but the young girl would love it all the more for its uniqueness and bright blue thread.

And now, that same young girl (and maybe also the villager from 19th century Ukraine) stands in front of us, trying not to clutch the old fabric too hard as her voice shakes with the emotion of all the love and humanity that is poured into the labor of art. The village girl and the girl in the Bronx were very different people: different centuries, different religions, different ages, and different continents. But the love in the stitches and beads on their dresses was the same. And she tells us that when we look at the labor of art, we don’t just see the work to create that piece - we see the labor of our own creations and the creations of others for us, and the value in something so seemingly frivolous.

But, maybe more importantly, she says that we only admire this piece in a museum because it happened to survive the love of the wearer and those who owned it afterwards, but there have been quite literally billions of small, quiet works of art in billions of small, quiet homes all over the world, for millennia. That your grandmother’s quilt is used as a picnic blanket just as Van Gogh’s works hung in his poor friends’ hallways. That your father’s hand-painted model plane sets are displayed in your parents’ livingroom as Grecian vases are displayed in museums. That your older sister’s engineering drawings in a steady, fine-lined hand are akin to Da Vinci’s scribbles of flying machines.

I don’t think there’s any dramatic conclusions to be drawn from these thoughts - they’ve been echoed by thousands of other people across the centuries. However, if you ever feel bad for spending all of your time sewing, knitting, drawing, building lego sets, or whatever else - especially if you feel like you have to somehow monetize or show off your work online to justify your labor - please know that there’s an 84yo museum docent in the Bronx who would cry simply at the thought of you spending so much effort to quietly create something that’s beautiful to you.

[revilonilmah]

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[eu0n1a]

character building questions (pt2)

Does your character have an ego? Write a short scene in which their ego is at its peak-halfway through, their ego take a battering and see how it manifests itself in their behaviors.

Write a short scene in which your character allows their anger to get the better of them. Does it erupt onto someone else, or is it internalized?

Write a short story about the stupidest thing your character has ever done. Were they honest afterwards? Did they make it into a joke and take ownership of their blunder, or did they retell their story in a way that made them out to be a hero?

Write a short story about your character in which they interact with the symbol of their star sign - i.e. if they are a Sagittarius, they interact with the archer, or are the archer themselves.

Write a short story about your character's spirit animal.

Write a short story about the hardest thing they have ever done.

What are three positive personality traits your character has? List them, then write a short story where all three appear

Write your character's bucketlist. Pick one item from the list and write a short story or scene in which they complete or fail to complete it.

Describe a garment your character has bought but has never had the courage to wear. Write about the event that they want to wear it.

What does an average day look like for your character? Write a scene in which you disrupt this day and take your character on a journey = (i.e. introduce and inciting incident)?

[makrustic]

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[agelesslibrary]

In the quiet corners of my mind, there’s a secret place where time stands still. Abandoned castles overlook vibrant gardens, and rivers run clear as crystal. Here, I reside—a solitary cottage, my sanctuary, where I devour the words of Dostoyevsky and pen verses about the dreams that visit me at night. These dreams paint the life of a girl, my counterpart, whose existence mirrors yet opposes my own. I drift into her world, where she, like me, finds solace in books—not for the love of stories but as a refuge from her reality, a world that is unkind and relentless. Although surrounded by the constant hum of people, she seeks not their company but the distraction they offer from the echoes of her own thoughts. Her diary, a vault of penned emotions, traps memories not to relive but to encage. Each entry locks away a piece of her life, transforming recollections into distant stories—observed but no longer felt. She often murmurs apologies, too many and too frequent, as though she bears the burden of her very existence. Her life oscillates between torrents of words and profound silences—her voice either a flood or a drought. Though she lives when I dream, and dreams when I live, in our moments of sleep, our worlds overlap, meeting in a dreamland where the lines between reality and imagination blur. I wander through the maze of her mind, an unseen companion. We meet in the quietest corners of her thoughts, places so deep within her that she convinces herself I'm just a figment of imagination. A thin veil of doubt separates us; she can't see or feel me as I do her, and I often wake with a tear slipping down my cheek, grieving the distance between her disbelief and my existence. Unseen and unbelieved, I can only weep quietly for her sorrows under the silent watch of the stars.

[sandt721]

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[hahahahas-stuff-deactivated2020]

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