/highculture/ - High Culture

>>96

>The installation artist has no medium per se

Movement

>>99

a bit shit

OP just rekt your shit, faggots. Get lost with your shitty ass board.

/his/torian here

The middles ages, loosely speaking, encompass the history of the old world from 476 to around 1500. I think It might do merit to your argument to specify a particular culture and epoch rather than use the term "medieval" so loosely

And judging by the connotative meaning of the term medieval, I would assume he's talking about western/Catholic Europe circa 1000-1500

>>38

>Hurr durr dem middles ages was poopy time

Get lost fag, European peasants in the Middle Ages had a better life than the vast majority of third world fucks today. See: 3rd world slums.

>>12

Antiquity > Modern

>>12

>ridding of countries

>civilized

all times have their issues. if you want to talk about how civilized the actions of the states during the 20th century were in south america, and further on what happened between Bolivia and Paraguay later in those years, I'm all for it because it sure as fuck doesn't represent being civilized.

>lacked vision and idealism

>implying average people today are cultured

why am i even answering this?

There are also studies showing objective beauty IS a thing.

(I'll try to find the link, if you have it share it)

>>46

>Even in a can of literal shit.

I don't think it's beauty, it's just interest, which is really different.

I think it's interesting to base ourselves on the idea of human beauty, because it's the same for everyone, and from it might derive all other forms of beauty.

>This board is predominantly for the purposes of posting & discussing classical music, paintings, sculpture, &c. High culture from other civilizations are welcome. Visual content must be in keeping with this theme; this includes embeded links.

And I was banned for posting the classics of this time.

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this board is already super slow, if you didnt like it you could have just told me so.

If you really want to talk about beauty, and where is beauty, we first have to define it,and that is no easy task.

In the middle ages, only God was truly beautiful; with the Renaissance, that idea still persisted, but the artisan's craft was thought has a paralel to God's creation. Then, beauty was found in the forms and nature.

In the Romantism, beauty started being associated with de divine, but not God - it's Kant's Idealism at play, where one's aim is to reach the Ideas.

From there, through Schopenhauer and Nietzsxchse's aesthetic theories, art gradually became more and more about ideas (even if Nietzsche's thinking called for quite the opposite). Add in Greenberg and Adorno, and the idea of beauty is not even relevant.

It does make some sense, though, and that is why Scruton's movie annoys me so much: different ages require different images. You don't build houses, don't read, don't think or even talk the way people did a hundred years ago. To think that the culture or ideals of that time should fit ours seems to me simply absurd.

>>62

This, high culture, the transcendent and the symbolism of religion are inseparable.

>108 replies and 103 images

https://boards.4chan.org/hr/thread/2411316/paintings-in-general

>sculptures

https://boards.4chan.org/hr/thread/2385111/sculptural

>>7

Has anyone heard of George Antheil? Check this out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR9Qg7YVHaU

>>88

Great find; there was a BBC series on the English Renaissance and they played that.

Your creations should expand the experience of reality.

Science has given us the ability to manipulate the world around us, and in turn, expanded what is possible within human experience.

>Shitting on their shoe is art.

If your definition of art includes that, then I suppose so.

You should think about the effect of a specific piece of art instead of thinking about what is and what is not art, or what should be considered art.

>How do I find an artistic pursuit that lets me feel I've made the world better, rather than simply having vomited into an ever-expanding pool of distractions that serve no purpose?

Think about how you can create art that speaks of things beyond you. Think about how you can create art that transcends the here and now. Think about how you can create art that adds a spiritual dimension to an otherwise animal existence.

>>65

Roger Scruton on the function of beauty https://vimeo.com/112655231

You will find that in man there is the material. The sciences, the trades, the productions, the growths, the conquering of challenge and the expansion of great civilisation. Yet, there is a more transcendental heart of man that fuels all this. The substance of existence; the beauty of life. If you are to contribute to mankind with your art, you must depict beauty in its truest forms, to elucidate the highest observable truths without effort through your medium, and to carve the path for lesser men to escape their mortal lives for the fleeting moment that true beauty in art provides and witness the infinite.

You will find that much of what timeless beauty evokes is similar to the teachings of many religions. This is because beauty in and of its own essence is but one hand of the transcendental. Coincidentally, religion, spirituality, and esotericism all seek to reveal via practice and doctrine the same higher truths to mankind so that we might gain ourselves into their halls. Imagine it like this: the love of wisdom is the door into the house of light through which we can enter, and the love of art is the window through which we would first see and come to observe it.

>>67

Scruton is so based

When that modern artist is rambling about how anything can be art as it's representing something and Scruton gives him a wry looks and says "Like a can of shit?"

Oh my that had me laughing.

>information

this covers, emotions,feelings,ideas,etc.

thats all you need.

>>79

What post is this in reference to?

i thought that owl was a penis

I still think modern coins are beautiful, to the point I still collect my countrys currency.

It might not be as detailed or as textured as before, but just by its historical weight, its fantastic.

>>77

cluck

>>80

didnt knew there was a cluck in here.

>>81

dafuq?

a wor-d fil-ter

why?

>>82

Such aberrations of the English language are discouraged on this board, and rightfully so.

Consult rule 3:

http://8ch.net/highculture/rules.html

>>37

That work on the chaise lounge is brilliant,

Here's nice point about watching television and celebrity gossip (vs reading books for example). Found it interesting,

https://youtu.be/6Jd7tJd9E7k?t=357

The posters of this board should deliberate upon a board theme song, and even then, we do not yet have enough posters. A theme song shall be decided upon in due course.

>>27

It might be difficult to advertise this place without attracting a large number shiposters. I founded a link on a random /b/ thread- and I generally don't visit /b/ that often.

I would be further inclined to think the theme song should be something along the lines of classical or romanticism, judging by what I've seen so far

BWV 1042 - I Allegro