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vavandeveresfan · 28 days

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I feel this scene so strongly.

The Office: Pam exhibits her art for the first time.

I love this because I've been there. Lord, have I been there, with both art and writing. Including the less-than-supportive boyfriend.

I love that Michael Scott, of all people, appreciates Pam's art as it is. He doesn't compare it with the rest of the work in the show. He doesn't care about the other art in the show. He just purely, innocently, admires her talent.

When you get right down to it, this is what all writers and artists want.

Raise your hand if someone's said of your art "Wow, that's free-hand?" and "It could be tracing!" Coming from people who can't draw, this is actually high praise. Of course, in this digital age not so many people recognize the significance of those compliments.

#writblr #writers on tumblr #artists on tumblr #writers #artists #writing community #The Office #pam beesly #michael scott #art #art critics #critics #art gallery #art show #art exhibition #writing #drawing #criticism #queue

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postersbykeith · 2 months

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#quotes #Mark Rothko #I hate and despise #art critics

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abwwia · 3 months

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Susan Sontag (USA, 1933-2004)

Susan Lee Sontag (/ˈsɒntæɡ/; January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American writer, critic, and public intellectual. Sontag was born Susan Rosenblatt in New York City, both Jews of Lithuanian and Polish descent. via Wikipedia Diane Arbus, Susan Sontag alone on a bed. N.Y.C. 1965 Education:University of California, BerkeleyUniversity of Chicago (BA)Harvard University (MA) She mostly…

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#art critics #literature #susan sontag

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federer7 · 2 years

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The Art Critics. Lower East Side, New York City, 1948

Photo by William Witt

#William Witt #new york city #new york #Art Critics #1948

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importantwomensbirthdays · 1 year

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Marta Traba

Art critic Marta Traba was born in 1930 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Traba was highly influential in the study of Latin American art and one of the most prominent contemporary art critics. Over the course of her career, she taught at over 20 universities, published 22 books on art history and criticism as well as over a thousand articles on topics related to art. Traba also wrote novels, the most famous of which was Conversación al Sur, a book about Argentina's Dirty War.

Marta Traba died in 1983 at the age of 53.

#art history #art critics #art criticism #argentina #latin america #hispanic

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maysamohamadart · 9 months

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Paintings haunted by tired souls. Ashes..by Syrian Artist Maysa Mohamad

#maysa mohamad #art #art in fashion #drawing #oil on canvas #oil painting #art critics #painful #lovers #fashion #love

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potatotalksculture · 10 months

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More thoughts on Disco Elysium

[SPOILERS for Disco Elysium ahead.]

I’ve been dubbed the “pretentious wanker” for internalizing the though about a art gallery with a name similar to some chocolate bar out of Charlie’s Chocolate Factory. I was hoping for something absurd or maybe written in an imaginary language. What I got is a (quite accurate) critique of the modern, high class art world. Like in Velvet Buzzsaw. Or the latest season of You, if you’re feeling pretentious.

And also my “Actual Art Degree” consists of colorful invectives. Nothing is good enough for the Art Cop. He criticizes everything. Everything is mediocre for him. Why is he like that? Is he part of the milieu at the Art Centre? Or was he never allowed to enter and that made him bitter?

I learn the philosophy presented in Disco Elysium as I go. At the beginning you wake up as a dude who knows nothing. He’s literally and metaphorically NAKED. You, the player, know as much about the character, the identity, the story, the cloths and the surrounding of this protagonist as much as he would know himself. Isn’t this a perfect starting point for an RPG?

I know nothing about RPGs. I never played any kind of pen and paper, nor did I engage in similar games that include creating an identity for your character and sticking to it. In theatre, at work, I prefer the logistics and managing over imagining stories and creating meanings. Communication is hard enough as it is. No need to over complicate it by including made up stories and character traits in it.

This are two reasons why Disco Elysium was perfect for me. (I have finished playing the game as I’m writing this post. The origin of this post is a draft I’ve written sometime while still playing.) I DIDNT HAD A CLUE HOW TO PLAY THIS KIND OF GAME. I was as lost as the protagonist.

As I moved through the world, interacted with figures and objects, I was learning the philosophy implemented into this game. Without looking into the fandom.com wiki, I think about communism and capitalism. There’s also moralism. And some form of neoliberalism, I think. Somewhere around the first or second in-game day I got the task to Rebuild the Communism. Me? The guy, who assumes he’s a detective but is not completely sure and who just some hours ago has found his second shoe? Sure, comrade! Let’s go! But wait! Now I also have some moralist pants on and… we’ll, get points for saying this or that.

The points system was the first thing that made me think more about the representation of the four different school of though within the dialogues. Capitalism is about making money, having money and seeing people though their monetary value on the market. Neoliberalism is about wanting the state to leave the people alone. Moralism is about being somewhere in the middle and trying to keep everyone calm. Communism is about sharing everything and eating the rich. Easy! Or is it?

As I was progressing, I kept losing track of the thoughts. I felt really drawn to the whole rebuilding communism concept, as a strong anti-capitalist myself, this school of though was closest to my own believes. But as soon as it was about violence and killing, I took a step back. This was not in sync with me. And since that’s how I’ve chosen to play the game, I started choosing the less violent, more non-descript dialogue options. This has brought me onto the Moralintern though. This got me thinking:

In real life, when your looking for a moral compass, it’s hard to a stick to one principle. Cuz usually the universal definition of the chosen philosophy is not completely in harmony with your personal believes. So more often that you’d like to you are confronted with some personal inconsistency. And with every consistency you learn something about yourself. The most of it being: You are not black and white. And so is the world you live in. Inconsistency is part of the reality. Evolving is part of being a human.

(Interestingly enough, when you interact with the books about Dick Mullen often enough, you enable a new perspective on the world. A black and white perspective, which proposes an insightful contrast between the real world and the fiction. You are not a fictional detective with all the evidence in front of you. And you also contradict yourself.)

And also: no philosophy within the game is only good or only bad, or rather explicitly positively or negatively coded. There’s the “lucky” racist that was supposed to grant wishes. There’s the brutality and bloodthirsty of communism which was supposed to be about sharing. There the brutality of the humanistic Dolores Dei, who was trying to do some people not human.

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bixels · 4 months

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Baffled.

#personal #not art #like how do you arrive at this conclusion #what beliefs?#the man may be a total grouch but if there’s one thing he HATES it’s Japanese nationalism #Japanese nationalists famously HATE his work especially the wind rises which criticizes imperial Japan and calls out the invasion of China #don’t ask for context on the first part of the tag I’m not answering

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tera-nyx · 22 days

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I was kind of having a bit of a time given the last three things I read I either loved or strongly was upset/annoyed by. Truly this is the only answer to being critical of books.

[picture from Reddit: user asks "Am I the only one who hates how critical people are of books?", goes on to discuss how if you don't like something you can put it down and walk away and people who like it can discuss other recommendations. User nqustor replies: "You will pry my right to shit on Ready Player One as much as I please from my cold, dead hands."]

On a more serious note: there was a response I liked that said we tie things we like to our own identity, and people shouldn't take it personally if someone has legitimate criticisms or doesn't like what you do. If we never criticized art then we aren't thinking about the impact it has. I also say this as a writer myself. It's okay to fuck up and make mistakes, it's okay for others to do so as well. We're human. We aren't set in stone to adhere to the values of what we create.

(That doesn't excuse outright racism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, or any other kind of prejudice committed by the same artist continuously or intentionally. I'll stand by the nearly opposing idea that some art shouldn't be made.)

Damn, it'd be nice to not have a bit of a philosophical crisis(/trauma response) anytime I post to social media.

#book reviews #art critics

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ailustrarte · 4 months

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