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art is a wholly spiritual and transcendental endeavour, atheism rejects any such pursuits

Deskilling is a fucking disease. In cultural production today (Art, Design, Music etc..) the receiving public is fully willing to accept the deskilled object without question. People today make no attempt to see artistic production as a discipline (in the fullest form of it's meaning), rather artistic production becomes a game where by any criteria (or principle) applied to a work to critically assess it (determine to what degree it is "good") is dismissed as not essential to the work.

As a result people are making straight up garbage and try to pretend it's conceptual, because they have no skill and no discipline. They hide behind the notion that skill, technique, discipline and craft are passe and somehow unconceptual. Most art is produced in a critical vacuum, an environment free of criticism - your fellow artists don't know shit and wouldn't want to offend you anyway. Not only that, 99% of criticism in magazines/internet/literature is purely masturbatory, artists are marketed as saints. Real criticism is key to art, without calling a work into crisis art can't move forward. The response to criticism should be defensive, but not in words - defensive in action. Defensive by making another, greater work. This is why art is stagnant.

Don't go to art school.

Deskilling is a fucking disease. In cultural production today (Art, Design, Music etc..) the receiving public is fully willing to accept the deskilled object without question. People today make no attempt to see artistic production as a discipline (in the fullest form of it's meaning), rather artistic production becomes a game where by any criteria (or principle) applied to a work to critically assess it (determine to what degree it is "good") is dismissed as not essential to the work.

As a result people are making straight up garbage and try to pretend it's conceptual, because they have no skill and no discipline. They hide behind the notion that skill, technique, discipline and craft are passe and somehow unconceptual. Most art is produced in a critical vacuum, an environment free of criticism - your fellow artists don't know shit and wouldn't want to offend you anyway. Not only that, 99% of criticism in magazines/internet/literature is purely masturbatory, artists are marketed as saints. Real criticism is key to art, without calling a work into crisis art can't move forward. The response to criticism should be defensive, but not in words - defensive in action. Defensive by making another, greater work. This is why art is stagnant.

Don't go to art school.

Deskilling is a fucking disease. In cultural production today (Art, Design, Music etc..) the receiving public is fully willing to accept the deskilled object without question. People today make no attempt to see artistic production as a discipline (in the fullest form of it's meaning), rather artistic production becomes a game where by any criteria (or principle) applied to a work to critically assess it (determine to what degree it is "good") is dismissed as not essential to the work.

As a result people are making straight up garbage and try to pretend it's conceptual, because they have no skill and no discipline. They hide behind the notion that skill, technique, discipline and craft are passe and somehow unconceptual. Most art is produced in a critical vacuum, an environment free of criticism - your fellow artists don't know shit and wouldn't want to offend you anyway. Not only that, 99% of criticism in magazines/internet/literature is purely masturbatory, artists are marketed as saints. Real criticism is key to art, without calling a work into crisis art can't move forward. The response to criticism should be defensive, but not in words - defensive in action. Defensive by making another, greater work. This is why art is stagnant.

Don't go to art school.

The modern age, driven since the industrial revolution, has prompted people to tear down and rebuild each facet of our culture, in a fashion that Nietzsche predicted in saying that the "God is dead".

It was perhaps the most prominent in the new totalitarian ideologies of communism and fascism, which proved themselves unfeasible and incongruous with human nature. Similarly, the many movements in art, ever since cubism, have appeared and soon lived themselves out in just a single lifetime, having us inherit the deskilled object as acceptable in art. Architecture also has not escaped this tyrannical revolution of reason and ego, with people like Corbusier thinking up hideous constructions, which since have been abandoned or hated by the people who live in them. The most recent musical composer that people can name is Schoenberg, who has freed us from tonality, making contemporary classical music rejected by everyone without a degree in music.

If anything, this has proven the complete mediocrity of the modern man, who in trying to create his egocentric vision, is incompatible with reality, his reason and abstraction only bringing disappointment. Only through tradition, collaboration and harsh criticism that seeks to find the absolute truth, man was able to create something great. We are still capable of that, with the current scientific tradition being a prime example.

The modern age, driven since the industrial revolution, has prompted people to tear down and rebuild each facet of our culture, in a fashion that Nietzsche predicted in saying that the "God is dead".

It was perhaps the most prominent in the new totalitarian ideologies of communism and fascism, which proved themselves unfeasible and incongruous with human nature. Similarly, the many movements in art, ever since cubism, have appeared and soon lived themselves out in just a single lifetime, having us inherit the deskilled object as acceptable in art. Architecture also has not escaped this tyrannical revolution of reason and ego, with people like Corbusier thinking up hideous constructions, which since have been abandoned or hated by the people who live in them. The most recent musical composer that people can name is Schoenberg, who has freed us from tonality, making contemporary classical music rejected by everyone without a degree in music.

If anything, this has proven the complete mediocrity of the modern man, who in trying to create his egocentric vision, is incompatible with reality, his reason and abstraction only bringing disappointment. Only through tradition, collaboration and harsh criticism that seeks to find the absolute truth, man was able to create something great. We are still capable of that, with the current scientific tradition being a prime example.

Deskilling is a fucking disease. In cultural production today (Art, Design, Music etc..) the receiving public is fully willing to accept the deskilled object without question. People today make no attempt to see artistic production as a discipline (in the fullest form of it's meaning), rather artistic production becomes a game where by any criteria (or principle) applied to a work to critically assess it (determine to what degree it is "good") is dismissed as not essential to the work.

As a result people are making straight up garbage and try to pretend it's conceptual, because they have no skill and no discipline. They hide behind the notion that skill, technique, discipline and craft are passe and somehow unconceptual. Most art is produced in a critical vacuum, an environment free of criticism - your fellow artists don't know shit and wouldn't want to offend you anyway. Not only that, 99% of criticism in magazines/internet/literature is purely masturbatory, artists are marketed as saints. Real criticism is key to art, without calling a work into crisis art can't move forward. The response to criticism should be defensive, but not in words - defensive in action. Defensive by making another, greater work. This is why art is stagnant.

Don't go to art school.