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Darwin's Manifesto V
Darwin Leon
When we behold the great art that the masters of the Renaissance produced, we do not say it is "cool" or "hot." Denizens of the "modern art world" tend to misidentify "art" with "attraction" - two very different ideas. We might say that an attraction is "cool", or "interesting", but a work of fine art is amazing. We speak truthfully when we say it is “amazing" and "marvelous", because we are indeed amazed as we marvel at the creation.
Receiving transmissions from the Beyond is one thing; conveying them is another. Artists must constantly develop their skills. That means they will have to understand form, structure, perception, vision, identity, perspective, prospective, statics, dynamics, and many other aspects of the original and indispensable spirit of art. And skilled artists should courageously face the truths of their circumstances no matter how awful and tragic those truths might be. Great Masters such as Caravaggio, Rubens, Michelangelo, and others were not afraid of the tragic aspects and the mysteries of life. Life is not always "pretty", or "cool" or "hot", or "interesting." Art should be attuned to origins and period crises along the time-space continuum. The greatest mystery in life is found in its origin and its crises, at the nexus of the ends of old periods and beginnings of new periods. The origin and nature of life and death, of good and evil, is the stuff dreams are made from.
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