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7/9/2025, 7:41:19 AM
Spinning this as an age thing doesn't help anyone. The thing is just an approach. I don't like it, but anyone may use it.
The main problem there is to encounter is the lack of "watchfulness", that is, going out and having firsthand experiences with things outside of everyday routines. For example, I'm following a Telegram channel focusing on modern Russian art from the newbloods and one thing you notice is that they're trying real hard, sure, and it's beautiful, but it's not the stuff you'd preserve in your memory. It is because it only captures the everyday experience without reflecting on it: pastel-like depictions of people squatting with a cig in their mouth, commieblocks, derelict Soviet art, a village, a Lenin statue... Everyone knows what it is already. Nothing is drawn from this. It's a background without a story that justifies its existence.
The biggest reaction to such depiction was satire. A Lenin statue wearing a baseball cap, a village with flying cars, cyberpunk commieblocks etc. But nothing was drawn from it aside from "look, ain't that quaint?" either. I was to an exhibition of some underground local post-Soviet artist and somehow his works were more dated than the classics.
The things that stand out are the ones who either see the unknown and manage to transcribe it or manage to draw the unknown from everyday things. There are paintings of flowers out there that have more life and passion behind them than some dark fantasy sagas because the author knows the extreme emotion an everyday thing can convey. These Hyperborea paintings by Vsevolod Ivanov are so popular because they manage to capture this alternative mode of thinking so well you can't help but be captured by the world he depicts.
Same things with fantasy or any other art. You know what an orc is, but you also know how an orc can be subverted, and it's just boring either way. The best way to move forward is to forget about them entirely until his existence becomes new and weird again.
The main problem there is to encounter is the lack of "watchfulness", that is, going out and having firsthand experiences with things outside of everyday routines. For example, I'm following a Telegram channel focusing on modern Russian art from the newbloods and one thing you notice is that they're trying real hard, sure, and it's beautiful, but it's not the stuff you'd preserve in your memory. It is because it only captures the everyday experience without reflecting on it: pastel-like depictions of people squatting with a cig in their mouth, commieblocks, derelict Soviet art, a village, a Lenin statue... Everyone knows what it is already. Nothing is drawn from this. It's a background without a story that justifies its existence.
The biggest reaction to such depiction was satire. A Lenin statue wearing a baseball cap, a village with flying cars, cyberpunk commieblocks etc. But nothing was drawn from it aside from "look, ain't that quaint?" either. I was to an exhibition of some underground local post-Soviet artist and somehow his works were more dated than the classics.
The things that stand out are the ones who either see the unknown and manage to transcribe it or manage to draw the unknown from everyday things. There are paintings of flowers out there that have more life and passion behind them than some dark fantasy sagas because the author knows the extreme emotion an everyday thing can convey. These Hyperborea paintings by Vsevolod Ivanov are so popular because they manage to capture this alternative mode of thinking so well you can't help but be captured by the world he depicts.
Same things with fantasy or any other art. You know what an orc is, but you also know how an orc can be subverted, and it's just boring either way. The best way to move forward is to forget about them entirely until his existence becomes new and weird again.
7/2/2025, 12:58:15 AM
6/24/2025, 4:34:11 AM
>>713490274
i remember you're genocides
i remember you're genocides
6/21/2025, 10:29:54 PM
>>713288117
Nothing, you just gotta live with it
Nothing, you just gotta live with it
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