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Darwin's Manifesto IV
Darwin Leon
I refuse to repudiate or to willingly participate in a futile attempt to annihilate my own memory and the related memory of the human race (history) hence condemn myself and humanity to a false freedom expressed by knee-jerk reactions prompted by the lizard brain. Primitive man, after all, despite the myth of the noble savage, was in large part enslaved by the natural environment and the customary or habitual responses of his social group; it was by virtue of his gradual command over his imaginative process that he managed to free himself. Wherefore my work naturally reflects that progress. My work is not produced in a vacuum: it has a strong social, political, religious and cultural context.
The context of the Renaissance has had a profound effect on my way of thinking. The Renaissance, the rebirth of the spirit of art, is the most important period in the history of art since ancient times. It is with an understanding of the nature of the Renaissance that the spirit of art may arise once again from a dark age. If students of art wish to be masters of art, they need to study the elements of the great art of the Renaissance.
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