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Objective reality does. :)


Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist’s metaphysical value-judgments. Man’s profound need of art lies in the fact that his cognitive faculty is conceptual, i.e., that he acquires knowledge by means of abstractions, and needs the power to bring his widest metaphysical abstractions into his immediate, perceptual awareness. Art fulfills this need: by means of a selective re-creation, it concretizes man’s fundamental view of himself and of existence. It tells man, in effect, which aspects of his experience are to be regarded as essential, significant, important. In this sense, art teaches man how to use his consciousness. It conditions or stylizes man’s consciousness by conveying to him a certain way of looking at existence.

“ART AND COGNITION”
The Romantic Manifesto, 45 Ayn Rand
 
I've never read Rand, but that was pretty good.

I do a lot of different things that could be considered art, but don't think of myself as an artist. For me it has to have an element of inspiration to qualify. For instance, if I'm carving something from wood the project will often morph because it seemed to need to do so somewhere along the way. Only then, does it feel like art to me. It's hard to explain. I'm a fan of a book called "The Artist's Way" which is big on techniques to wake up subconscious ideas and help them to bubble to the surface. More or less.

I sell some stuff, but I don't really try to make money at it. People ask me to do custom stuff, and I usually say OK, but it's more or less just to see if I can. Most often the product exceeds the customer's original concept, which I like. I doubt I'll ever be happy by cranking out a routine piece of shit and then sticking my hand out. On some level its a way of making somebody happy, including myself.

I did a sign for a restaurant that just opened because the owner is my wife's cousin and she had asked me. And I like her. She has a creative brain. I didn't know if I could really do what she wanted, but I took a chunk of wood from the demolition on the space and turned it into a pretty nice sign. She cried when she saw it, which was cool. It was her vision, but she needed me to manifest it and I was happy when it was complete. Bottom line is that I like it when somebody challenges me and I learn something new. Repetition is the key to efficiency, but it doesn't do much for the soul.

My process is to jump off a cliff and just before I slam into the ground I manage to figure it out.
 
Hawg73 said:
I've never read Rand, but that was pretty good.

I do a lot of different things that could be considered art, but don't think of myself as an artist. For me it has to have an element of inspiration to qualify. For instance, if I'm carving something from wood the project will often morph because it seemed to need to do so somewhere along the way. Only then, does it feel like art to me. It's hard to explain. I'm a fan of a book called "The Artist's Way" which is big on techniques to wake up subconscious ideas and help them to bubble to the surface. More or less.

I sell some stuff, but I don't really try to make money at it. People ask me to do custom stuff, and I usually say OK, but it's more or less just to see if I can. Most often the product exceeds the customer's original concept, which I like. I doubt I'll ever be happy by cranking out a routine piece of shit and then sticking my hand out. On some level its a way of making somebody happy, including myself.

I did a sign for a restaurant that just opened because the owner is my wife's cousin and she had asked me. And I like her. She has a creative brain. I didn't know if I could really do what she wanted, but I took a chunk of wood from the demolition on the space and turned it into a pretty nice sign. She cried when she saw it, which was cool. It was her vision, but she needed me to manifest it and I was happy when it was complete. Bottom line is that I like it when somebody challenges me and I learn something new. Repetition is the key to efficiency, but it doesn't do much for the soul.

My process is to jump off a cliff and just before I slam into the ground I manage to figure it out.
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Wow, that is great Hawg. Love it.
 
We had a thread on art. It died out quickly, though.

OT: Favorite artist or artwork

Being a renaissance man myself I thought it would be an interesting thread to see what everyones taste in art is heres some of mine. Frank Frazetta Jim Lee Da Vinci
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