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Head Over Heart Climbed out of the ocean Learned to walk upright Now not one…
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Robert Lynn

31w↑16

I used to know some guys who worked for one of the top London art auction houses who would explain, when drunk, how they would often spend years talking up a market and grooming rich suckers into interest in particular artists and then purchases of low value stuff they had gathering dust in their warehouses for decades - pretending that it was a rare opportunity rather than a long con.
Art died or was forced into residual gaps due to technology, ie photography and more recently other mass-production replication technologies etc with which humans couldn't compete. And as a result of loss of objective value/accuracy art became at the top end at least (away from more accessible levels of art bought for homes etc), entirely subjective and so mostly driven by manufacturing of demand and opinion - sales, exclusivity, fashion, narrative around artists, rarity etc... A fundamental aspect of human psychology is powerful demand for peer approval and status - which makes those lacking confidence in their social standing easy to manipulate, so inevitably a deeply exploitative, corrupt and borderline criminal fine art industry has evolved to exploit the foolish naked emperors and their urge to be part of the game.

Eyesayah

31w↑1

Much to think about there. Thank you.

Zupremo

29w

Art's death has nothing to do with tech, because Photos can't translate human reality into a picture. Real Art is very rare and not everybody who can draw, sculpt, paint etc are going to be able to make one in their entire life. I personally only saw one painting that made me smell and hear the sound of a river, I don't even remember the painting now but i can still clearly remember the experience.

Steven Hanson

25w

“So, what do YOU like?” “Let me see what’s trending.”

Steven Hanson

25w↑1

@Zupremo that was the sound you hear when flushing the toilet.
And of course you’ll always revel in that experience.

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Ryam

29w↑1

This is truly an excellent presentation. Thank you!

Richard Zellers

1y↑15

Another great lecture

Anya Kirby

33w↑10

WHAT AN EPIC LECTURE !
Thank you ever so much. Yes. Peterson, Pinker, Jonathan Haidt are definitely the light shining finally in the end of this postmodernist philosophical tunnel.
I’d add to this list other enlightening figures like young Colman Hughes, John McWhorter, Glen Lowry, Nigel Bigger, and many other are coming up.

TheWhitehiker

32w↑1

A good list indeed.

mikemb123

29w↑4

There was plenty of ugly art in the past too, like the gruesome religeous art of Medievel times or the Aztec art with all the demonic human sacrifice themes.

Offshoretomorrow

27w

Medieval European art generally feels dark, mean and miserable.

craxd1

1y↑11

The Decadence Movement was what started it, which led to the others, with each new type being worse than those before, such as cubism, etc. Look for Félicien Rops painting, Pornokratès, 1878. I remember cubism from the sixties and seventies, when fiberglass chairs were a thing in lobbies, with square mosaics on the walls, and cube paintings, etc., hanging about. Plus, we can't forget how this affected architecture, which leads us to Nazi and Brutalist Architecture. The west even adopted Soviet architecture in places, especially in apartment blocks.

If one wished to view the worst of this art, then travel to Venice, and visit the Peggy Guggenheim Collection.

dale

28w

I have been watching several of Hicks' lectures, and although they are interesting, I think they are very selective in the way he looks at the world. He leaves Dilsey out of The Sound and the Fury, and he ignores advertising, which I think was correctly described by Marshall McLuhan as the only real art form of the 20th century.

Robert Jones

1y↑4

I would counter that Italian and Spanish Renaissance and baroque art, steeped in the Catholic faith as they are, are not shameful, do not have their faces planted in the dirt. Take Michelangelo's David, which gets an B+ when compared with Bernini's David, which wipes the floor with nearly most of Greek sculpture which preceded it. The Mexican Our Lady of Guadalupe is one of the most beautiful depictions of the Virgin Mother ever made.

As for Stieglitz, yes, that quote is surely from him. Yet, that is hardly representative of his work as a whole. As a photographer, his work was highly stylized, and his was as at home in the Art Deco movement as much as Charles Sheeler or Man Ray.

galaxytrio

29w↑1

Brilliant lecture.

Margarita

30w↑2

the problem is that art is an industry now with a lot of mass production of relatively poor quality. can of soup is just that.

art died the moment we subsidised it. we were attracted to struggle with or without resolution, whereas it's a bunch of overpaid overpriced vulgar entitled "artists" now. yes it sells, but majority of it has no value.

Chamwow

49w↑4

You mention that art has been stagnant over the last 100 years, but what about the massive animation and comic industry that didn't exist until the 20th century?

Julie Nero

28w

The comic craze has roots in European, but especially 19th c. Japanese print culture. These colorful prints were all the rage in the 1860s among European artists. 'Comics' are not new- just have become more widespread due to developments in mass publishing and printing techniques.

Chamwow

28w

@Julie Nero thanks for the input, isn't it also fair to say that these developments in the industry have led to improvements in art and story quality? Just because the medium has stayed the same doesn't mean its evolution should be downplayed

Offshoretomorrow

27w

Music, arguably the greatest form of art has also been hugely vibrant in that century. Film too.
I think Stephen is focussing on the elite 'Fine Arts' rather than popular culture.

benmlee

26w↑1

Slight but significant correction. “Graven image” is an idol made for worship. It does not mean you can’t make a doll for your daughter or have a carved wooden bear on the porch. As long as you are not worshiping your carved bear, you are ok. But if you are worshiping you wooden bear, you got bigger problems.

mathew idicula

1y↑8

When there is no deeper meaning in art it becomes trash. No religion no politics or history art in no way connects to our humanity, so why should we find a connection to art, both art and man lose their respective nature, What is art without the meaningful distraction they provide, to another way of being to a future more of our choosing and away from the mental slings and arrows to our sensibilities? Oh, art and the artist behind then pray you never lose your way, so in your disunion of man to his better instinct, we don’t fall close behind.

The Reign of the Zero

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TheWhitehiker

32w↑1

Wall Street, the film--the Geco character buys the harsh, crappy art for his house knowing that it's an investment.

The Reign of the Zero

1y↑2

Crazy that now AI is about to render artists of all kinds obsolete.

Margarita

30w↑1

real art will survive, but all the mass production will be replaced

Sergio Lepore is Art Man

29w

Art branched out to include cinema, so this type of art talked about here had become an isolated event. Originally the avant-garde was genuine with Manet leading the way. Cut to Abstract Expressionism which moved the art center for the West from Europe to the States was strongly influenced by the United States government CIA to demonstrate how Capitalism is superior to Socialism and Communism by pushing the cultural envelope. Little did they know how their exploitation of mindaltering drugs as we entered the 60's on a population would backfire. One two three four we don't want your f-ing war being the universal cry against America's most publicsized first bad war was the last straw and so the government had to make the economy more like a Darwinian nightmare of the survival of the fittest and by the 1980's we saw how the citizenry became culled idiots distracted by things, entertainment, aka bread and circus, and a lowering of their living standards. By now you just are trying to survive while scrolling on your smartphone. Who has time to contemplate art and philosophy both serving as integral for critical thought. I don't think it's purely by design but things sort of went this way to the benefit of the elites who invest in the economy and such.

Eyesayah

31w↑1

It seems to me that the ideal for art would be truth. The urinal piece seems to me an opinion, not the truth. If religion attempts to justify God's way to man, perhaps art might put truth before us in such a way that we can recognize and accept it, in all its bitter and sweet.
Possibly, nihilistic art nourishes mainly those whose life is all gravy.

evolgenius

40w↑2

Something about moving away from the truth...

Charles Claudio Oakley

30w↑1

Good lecture but he seemed to be implying that abstract expressionism was part of the problem while ignoring Mark Rotho's Seagram murals or Barnett Newman's Stations of the Cross. Never mind Pollock's Autumn Rhythm. Abstract Expressionism was a robust and exciting artistic adventure that was distinctly American. Only showing De Kooning is a little like cherry picking.

Steven Hanson

25w

No sooner than it became ugly, art became Garfunkel.

Allen Moses

31w↑2

Jackson Pollack made the most beautiful paintings ever!

lospopularos

29w

I can't understand how Hicks - who is a philosopher - can doubt the "exploitation and alienation" (from a quotation of Marx) under American capitalism lol.

John Kubek

29w

“All art is but imitation of nature.”
~Seneca c.4 BC-AD65
~

"Deus sive Natura"
~Baruch Spinoza
1632-1677
~

ed federoff

29w

Federoff's Rule (or Law, if you prefer) of Shit is as follows: Everything in the Universe has either been, is, or at some time in the future will be - Shit.

Jon-Roy

31w

The most creative artists and writers have moved into video games where they have the greatest freedom to create.

dan nistor

30w↑2

"they have the greatest freedom with video games" needs a few paragraphs of explanation...
I happen to have near me a small blank canvas and some paint... and I feel I have unlimited freedom... too much of it...

Kynaat Awan

28w↑1

True art cannot exist unless there is a higher ideal such as the divine underpinning it. That is because art is meant to take someone outside themselves to admire that which is greater than humanity. Unless we bring back God we cannot have real art.

Frank Deville

28w

" God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him." Nietzsche

Kynaat Awan

28w

He is alive otherwise we would not have love or natural beauty

Siggy in CR

1y↑9

Overall great lecture, but mentioning Peterson as one of the great philosophers of our time is disheartening if true.

John Galt

1y↑11

Why's that?

Rob Leahy

1y↑3

You either think it's TRUE or don't. I don't hear much about you when I pull the wax outta my lugs.

The Reign of the Zero

1y↑5

Ignorance is bliss 👍 Enjoy.

stunns2003

40w↑16

Prof. Hicks’s point is that several influential figures have joined the battle using Prof. Peterson as an example.

In light of the above, Prof. Hicks is right to reference Prof. Peterson as an influential figure and that he has joined the fight against extreme progressivism.

Whether or not Peterson’s message will stand the test of time remains to be seen.

Tehrawrzorz

35w↑19

I never hear anyone actually state why they dislike Peterson without relying on group opinion or leaps of judgment.

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Jonathon Bennett

25w

It's about The Kings New Clothes. Duchamp peas a con man and you've been duped.

Rylanor the Ancient of Rites

26w↑1

bellado

Pip Lee

27w

Marxism…. End of

Da Church of Eppie

1y↑1

Q @ 1:19:00 - did Shakespeare shit in a box?

Rob Leahy

1y↑1

At least once, but he never signed it and passed it round his crew for approbation.

Da Church of Eppie

1y↑4

@Rob Leahy - right?
Seems to me a different angle on “ugly”.
A buddy of mine got me the “Bible of Modern Art” for reference in AI promting.
I’m not really an art critic, but it was full of shit work.
It is sad to see people standing up for human expression on principle when the expressions are so clearly anti-humanity.
Empathy and open-mindedness has been weaponized for 100+ years.
Kind of frightening.