Good artists are people who can stick things together so that they stay stuck. They know how to gather things into formal arrangements that are intelligible, memorable, and lasting. Good forms confer health upon the things that they gather together. Farms, families, and communities are forms of art just as are poems, paintings, and symphonies….
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aesthetics
Why I Don’t Like The Grammy Awards or Pop Music in General
In regard to how I feel about “award” shows, such as the audaciously generic Grammy Awards which took place last Sunday night, I defer to author Mark Twain: “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.” I’m not quite sure what it is about me that wants…
Walter Benjamin’s Romantic Criticism
[Walter Benjamin’s]…idea is that criticism does not stand outside the work of art, but stands alongside, maybe even inside, the work of art, participating in the work in order to further express and tease out what the artist already put there. In this theory of criticism, we don’t need the critic to tell us what…
Design is not style.
People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It’s not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need, and beauty to produce something that the world didn’t know it was missing. —Paola Antonelli Design…
Imagination Callaborating with Memory
It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one’s memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory. Quote: Edgar Degas Photogram: Jason Lazarus, Study #10 (64y, 64m at F8 for 1 sec without ashes, ashes layed down,…
What is your aesthetic?
I love reading Richard Beck’s blog. Today he posted an excerpt of a conversation he had with one of his students. The student, after reading some critiques of Christianity, was having some doubts about his faith. He asked Dr. Beck why he believed in Christianity. His answer was truly inspiring to me. Me (Dr. Beck):…
Saul Bass on Making Beautiful Things
via Just Creative Design