{"id":19,"date":"2015-12-06T23:44:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-06T23:44:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2022-11-16T13:33:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T18:33:49","slug":"art-must-never-develop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ivanhimanen.com\/crisesofdocumentation\/art-must-never-develop\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Must Never Develop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bullet thoughts on a broad topic:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Culture has a cyclical life, with birth, maturity, death, and rebirth.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;Golden Ages&#8221; typically happen during cultural maturity.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Separations of people into classes are strongest before cultural death.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Revolutions, or death\/rebirth phases of culture, come about in response to class separation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The democratic fight is on the side of the people taken as a whole.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The hegemonic fight is on the side of the ruling class.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A cultural &#8220;Golden Age&#8221; is defined as the time when developments in intellect are successfully disseminated across a large percentage of the populous.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The ruling class typically is responsible for this development and dissemination.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The majority of the populous is mediocre and lazy.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8230;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Crap. What a conclusion.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>By this token, revolutions are mostly setbacks to cultural development.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Is art created during the death\/rebirth of culture less developed than art created during cultural maturity?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It cannot be that Polykleitos&#8217; Doryphoros is a higher work of art than De Kooning&#8217;s Woman I. The former is a distilled formula, the latter is a banner for a new world order.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Perhaps we must see art not as a higher form of the intellect to be grasped, but as an actor who is in constant need of new roles, and is never allowed to practice.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Art is the most talented person we know, who has a knack for meeting the moment. Our job is simply to challenge it with unprecedented moments.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8230;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Art must never develop.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8230;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We must be so much more urgent with art than we consider possible.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We must make the target move too fast to hit, then we must attempt to hit it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>X<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-large size-medium\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/3\/31\/Doryphoros_MIA_866.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Polykleitos, Doryphoros, 5th century BC. Image credit Minneapolis Institute of Art, via <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Doryphoros_MIA_866.jpg\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a>, public domain.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-large size-medium\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/2\/2a\/Woman_I-Willem_de_Kooning.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Willem de Kooning, Woman I, 1952. Image credit Willem de Kooning \/ Museum of Modern Art, via <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Woman_I-Willem_de_Kooning.jpg\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a>, reproduced via fair use.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bullet thoughts on a broad topic: X<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,242],"tags":[52,51,49,50],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-non-fiction","tag-culture","tag-de-kooning","tag-golden-age","tag-polykleitos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivanhimanen.com\/crisesofdocumentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivanhimanen.com\/crisesofdocumentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivanhimanen.com\/crisesofdocumentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivanhimanen.com\/crisesofdocumentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivanhimanen.com\/crisesofdocumentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ivanhimanen.com\/crisesofdocumentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1738,"href":"https:\/\/ivanhimanen.com\/crisesofdocumentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/1738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivanhimanen.com\/crisesofdocumentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivanhimanen.com\/crisesofdocumentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivanhimanen.com\/crisesofdocumentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}