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Comparing Religions

8/20/2019

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It is interesting to me how if you truly study comparative religions you will find that bottom line they all say the same thing and yet all the wars are fought over the specifics of each individual one. For example, "Obeying God" is talked a lot about in the Jewish tradition. In the Christian tradition it is called "Doing God's Will". In Eastern religions it's best described in Zen as "a flow in harmony with the Divine". In Islamic sects it is called "Surrendering to God".

It is all about the ego being put in it's proper place by daily seeking of guidance through meditation or prayer. Rational thought and logic is not all there is to us, there is also Intuitive Insight which when functioning properly (and this requires a lot of purification and insight) keeps us in synchronicity with Nature and Life.
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It is not religion or the practice of it that is bad it is the lack of understanding and the usurping of power by stupid unenlightened men that is the problem. If Israel and Palestine could really experience God (Divine) in their lives, they would see how much in common they had and come to a quick resolution of differences.
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Art + Learning

8/20/2019

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It is important to learn from one another. If we did not have role models in Art like in Science, we would never improve.

To look at Picasso's art and analyze what made him great is part of an artist's obligation in improving one's own artwork. That does not mean we paint like Picasso, we always stay true to ourselves only become improved.

For example when I did a careful copy of a Rubens portrait I learned so much about flesh tones.

Art is not just vomit on a canvas, it requires analysis, study and experimentation as to what works and what doesn't...but people these days think whatever is on canvas is good and a masterpiece...it is laughable.

Art is often the end product of hard work. Like Leonard Cohen whose spontaneous sounding songs look so facile, were in fact worked and re-worked millions of times.

Also we do not paint in a vacuum, we are glutted with visual images that imprint themselves on our brain and sometimes we make something that feels like we have seen it before...we are all a product of our society. No matter how original we want to be it doesn't work, someone has been there before us.

​The real trick is to have something to say with your art and find ways to say it.
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CATHARSIS IN ART

8/17/2019

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The way art heals is through catharsis, not by painting pretty, well designed innocuous stuff. Catharsis in art began in Greece where they used drama in that way. People went to the theatre not to be entertained but to experience a catharsis, a purification and purgation of emotions—particularly pity and fear that resulted in spiritual renewal and restoration.

 Aristotle states that the purpose of tragedy is to arouse “terror and pity” and thereby effect the catharsis of these emotions. For example, In Romeo and Juliet, Romeo commits suicide by drinking the poison that he erroneously thinks Juliet had tasted too. The audience usually finds themselves crying at this particular moment for several reasons. Primarily because losing a loved one is a feeling that all of us have experienced. Watching or reading such a scene triggers the memories of someone we have lost (either by death or by mere separation), and because we are able to relate to it, we suddenly release the emotions that we have been repressing.

This feeling can also be aroused when looking at works of art. What we often call Dark Art serves this cathartic purpose, by allowing us to experience our deepest nightmares and fears, the biggest one being death, and release it. The art does not cause the fear, if it is real art, it simply brings up what is sitting in our unconscious. People avoid looking at it because they mistakenly believe that it causes them to feel a certain way, but the fact is the the feeling was already there. It is like people talk about avoiding socializing with certain individuals because their ”vibrational level” whatever that is , is too low. Wrong again. All that person has done is triggered your own experience. If we took responsibility for our own emotions, tasted them and allowed ourselves to feel them deeply, our lives would have much more meaning and depth because we could purify enough to finally start tasting our spiritual nature. Humour in art that evokes the paradoxical or absurd of life also serves that purpose too. Not slapstick rabbit balloons…(Jeff Koons)

Our society now is enamoured with showing no affect anywhere, positivity has caused us to squelch our deepest fears and emotions not just individually but as a society, so that we have become walking zombies, feeling titilation but never deep joy. For to feel joy you must have acknowledged all your deep seated emotions conscious and unconscious, (grief, anger, fear) explored, experienced  them and accepted them as part of being a human. We have become so numbed that we need porn to feel anything at all. Sensuality is dead.

That is why we need expressive art more than ever showing all our gamut of emotions to help us purify. Photographically correct art without emotions is pointless in my estimation in our times. Abstract art is dying. We need to meet the hate and violence and fear dead on in ourselves to cleanse it from our souls, collectively and individually. Love as a heart painted on canvas will not wake us up…it is just another false decoration like all the silly pop art around that says nothing like, flying pigs…

Stop the judgemental positivity and political correctness and lets get down and dirty.






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Evolution and Gestalt

8/4/2019

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Even though we have all been weaned on Darwin's theory of evolution saying basically that humans began as a mineral, then emerged into plant life, after into an animal state and finally into being human, we don't really seem to grasp the full meaning of this. In Africa there appeared an animal that stood erect,used tools with care and began to speak. A new kind of species had evolved with a brain greater than any before it and a capacity for self-transformation. 

The Climate Crisis on earth now has made us realize this fact  again and suddenly we are jostled out of our delusional reality  that humans are a walking  machine-like brain, akin to God who can make human life comfortable by exploiting the earth and its resources.  Comfortable for only the few lucky ones who got rich. We stopped being aware of how we evolved and where we are headed, namely back to the beginning gestalt of creation. We stopped the self-transformative process. We ripped ourselves away from the evolving life process and disconnected our brains from our bodies. We suddenly thought we were the kings of the universe, the creators of life and we are still trying to prove that by manipulating our DNA to design the next generation according to our limited understanding. And working our bodies in the gyms to look like the Hulk so we live longer. Because the brain as it turns out is very limited in the way we have been utilizing it, namely in self service and competition with each other and the Universe. The body is in fact our doorway to our connection with Spirit, but we are not interested, preferring to remain on the treadmill of our present false security of existence.

Now that the demise of the earth is a possibility, we suddenly realize how much more connected to life animals are than us, how we have veered off course in our evolution somewhere along the line. So we turn to worshipping animals and plants. Caring for them is great and important but worshipping them by buying ballet tutus for your dogs, all the while that we ignore dying and hungry children in our world and other continents is not going to save us. 

We need to get back on the evolutionary train and restart our motors and think about what is the next possible step to take in our growth, what does Life require from us at this point? ​

We first ask ourselves these questions, then begin to realize we are not the end of the road for evolving no matter what brilliant technology we have invented to date. The next step in our evolution is to expand our brain sufficiently away from just information and data input to understanding our spiritual selves. I realize this is very inconvenient for Capitalism, but too bloody bad, that is where the evolution process is headed. So either you are on board developing compassion in this life or you are run over by the train.

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ART + BUSINESS

8/2/2019

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Art is viewed as a business in our industrial society, not talent...or vocation and artists are expected to be good business people and sell...Even art agents and curators are losing their role which worked well before where artists did what they did best and business people did what they did best. However artists have a need to communicate with their art, so they are being taken advantage of by galleries and agents and other business types, who no longer have to hustle to find collectors and buyers but rely on the income from artists. It's pathetic. When I showed in the 90's at the Grand Palais, I only paid for shipping for a major international show, now they want thousands just for the privilege of hanging your work on their wall. There are too many rich bad artists who can do this...so these places have become lazy...and no longer care about quality but only money...
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