/highculture/ - High Culture

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?