One of his colleagues just got fed up with them one day, took a chair, threw a blanket on it, and told them to paint it. None of them knew how.

He said most schools are like that these days. He knew of one single very good art school in Ukraine in the old Russian tradition that is still doing good work

I mean, there is even merit to a lot of modernist techiques as learning methods, talented modern artists tend to just be people divorced from wholly or to abstractly obsessed with the emotional side of art, but then every two bit hack thinks they can immitate them when they don't even know what it is they're immitating

I had a modernist for an art teacher once, he brought in a piece that was honestly almost aesthetically pleasing (his art tended to emulate graffiti a lot, which I enjoy the look of), and he spend an hour explaining how the piece came about, about how the canvas was something he and his niece used to paint together on, over and over, and how it formed from the remnants of their time together

then when asked what it meant, his reply was "Oh it's about the interplay of color and the repetition of shape"

Like, absolute zero recognition of any actual meaning to what was, from his own description, clearly a very personal piece

It was all just autistic obsession over a combination of thought experements that, when individually understood, actually allow you to understand a lot of aspects of great masterworks

But to him he couldn't see past the ideas into the point

Hm.. interesting

My current working definition of art is just: if I have to ask "what is it?", it's not art

I just go off anything that looks nice, with the relative merit being the technical skill apparent

Because geometric shapes, for example, can be quite beautiful even without a context, and even something like a Pollock drip painting has a lot of technique to it that isn't immediately apparent, even if it's meaningless. While I don't think those things are necessarily worth what they are in comparison to something that combines technical skill with meaning and recognizable form, there is usually something there (compared to something like ethnic art/postmodern art which typically reject even that in favor of everything from just taking a mudane object and signing it to using actual shit on child's scibblings

K

I know what you mean. Geometric patterns etc which are beautiful I consider to be art because they are recognizable as such

@Deleted User feel free to share more Cossacks lol

Wishing you all a blessed Nativity of St John the Baptist!

K Marcus

I already have on this server

I have like hundreds of Cossack paintings

In memory of the ottoman shelling Don Cossack in the Azov in June 26th 1641 through 70 gallerys and 90 auxiliary vessels. 150,000 bloodthirsty Turkish mercenaries were ultimately defeated by 5,500 (including 800 women) Don Cossacks resulting in an Ottoman defeat with 10,000 casualties on their side whilst the Don Cossacks received few casualties

@Wrath that a nice pic

Imagine not chanting or singing your prayers.

This is much better than the one at the Vatican

Literally the one at the Vatican had a piano in the background

H E R E S E Y

Danill in the streets of Talinn?

What is this

Make time for God?

Opened my art resource and came across this. Thought I'd post

Nice

How is that heresy lol

Yea, how is that heresy?

It was a joke

odd humour

In case he meant you were Jesus

It was a joke about him comparing you to Christ