visual art
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Aesthetics I Wish I Could Live
Perhaps these are out there and people are already living them — if you know them, give me their contacts! GhostFlapper This is my dearest desire. To have died at the height of your youth and power as a flapper in the 1920s. BFFs with Josephine Baker. Crushed on and rejecting of Hemingway. Beads and…
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I love surrealism.
I love the bends and gasps it makes in my brain, melting this and stretching that. That flower is a beautiful face, and those spiders will shelter us from the desert rays. I love the painters of surreal paintings: Miro’s playful lines that lead the eyes to newness, Magritte placing objects in my face, Kandinsky…
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All the aesthetics…
At no time in history before has it been possible to “choose” an aesthetic. Maybe the last ten years. Oh, sure, kids and adults in the 19 twenties could choose this or that outfit, this or that makeup style, and build a kind of an aesthetic. Girls could go full flapper, for example, in the…
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I do not, at my core, like AI that makes art.
I am an artist, and it takes me time (precious to mortals) and money (precious to us hedonists) to write this and everything else you see here. Every time a human has created a tool – forks, lingerie, code breakers – it has been invented to make our lives easier, cleaner, more full of time…
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Distortion photography is all photography, it only differs by how much.
We talk about “the human eye” as though we were cyclopses. But we have two eyes and they work in tandem to make the world around us make sense. I keep seeing new hashtags, and different apps suggest different ones. Apparently, I am really into #distortionphotography. But this itself seems so distorted to me. The…