/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>4539806
>seething puritanical scum
the material world is vulgar, and vulgarity is a viable channel for great art - these are inescapable facts. please take your sanctimony, repression, and schizophrenic belief in a morally concerned anthropomorphic god-troll and shove it up your ass

>>4509605
>Those works become powerful through their point
This is, again, incredibly narrow and responsible for some of the most boring art in existence, like >>4509404
>>4509656
>Saying there's only one way a piece can work is an insult not only to the artwork, but also to humans.
Yes, yes it is.

>What has never yet been analyzed is why this particular way of painting is more poignant than illustration. I suppose because it has a life completely of its own. It lives on its own, like the image one's trying to trap; it lives on its own, and therefore transfers the essence of the image more poignantly. So that the artist may be able to open up or rather, should I say, unlock the valves of feeling and therefore return the onlooker to life more violently.