There's underlying economic models to this. A beautiful women is a well taken care of and healthy woman. In my younger years I was fooled by things like the beauty myth, and societies bs about unrealistic beauty standards. And then I visited the Netherlands and the woman all glowed there. If our woman aren't beautiful, then we are just not healthy. They are using "beauty positivity" to deny how ill the American women is, and that is because of economics.
"The statue is a symbol of “equity” and “representation” and is intended to be a symbol of the shared present and future ambitions of Londoners."
I think it doesn't feel feminine or even has the energy and character of a real black woman because the femininity there is superficial, it's political art to impose an utopian ideal, it's soulless. As you say Tyranny.
That's what cubism is, it's a total rejection of tradition, and an attempt to construct new realities. Perhaps they took out the faces because they couldn't bare to really empathise with people because that's who get hurt by these plays for power. Behind it is that the political is more important the personal thus all humanity in this style of art gets eroded. It completely contradicts the traditional religious view of art which can be summarised with this quote:
"For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavour to create something perfect; for God is perfection, and whoever strives after it, is striving after something divine. True painting is only the image of the perfection of God, a shadow of the pencil with which he paints, a melody, a striving after harmony." -Michelangelo
Religion is inherently natural thing to find and recognizes that we have a shared humanity thus as pull away from it you get inorganic disfigured art. And as they reject divine perfection they create intentionally ugly art. Although I'm still working out the connections here.
Apparently the artist Tschabalala Self was inspired by a cubist artist called Romare Bearden, who in turn studied philosophy of Gaston Bachelard. I'm not versed enough in philosophy to understand Bachelard.
I'm not personally well-versed in Bachelard, but after looking him up, it has opened a can of worms that looks for the worse, but unsurprising.
Bachelard appears to have supported the constructivist tradition and had great influence on the works of Foucault. Already bad signs all around.
But simply looking at the visage of Lady in Blue gives ample reason to question the philosophy surrounding its creation – nothing of value. As someone who does adhere to the dialectic tradition, I concede parts of it have some merit in philosophical exchange, however, bad actors misuse those processes to act in performative ways and promote political propaganda, which is what Lady in Blue essentially is.
That name keeps coming up. A couple of years ago one of our MPs complained about Foucault's ideas getting into the education system. And it caused an unnaturally huge media backlash and mockery from the smart left.
I'll look more into Foucault and Bachelard.
I started reading philosophy to inspire my own art which attempts at countering this.
The elephant in the room......
There's underlying economic models to this. A beautiful women is a well taken care of and healthy woman. In my younger years I was fooled by things like the beauty myth, and societies bs about unrealistic beauty standards. And then I visited the Netherlands and the woman all glowed there. If our woman aren't beautiful, then we are just not healthy. They are using "beauty positivity" to deny how ill the American women is, and that is because of economics.
One couldn't know beauty without knowing truth.
Beauty embodies truth and virtue.
'Lady in blue'
"The statue is a symbol of “equity” and “representation” and is intended to be a symbol of the shared present and future ambitions of Londoners."
I think it doesn't feel feminine or even has the energy and character of a real black woman because the femininity there is superficial, it's political art to impose an utopian ideal, it's soulless. As you say Tyranny.
That's what cubism is, it's a total rejection of tradition, and an attempt to construct new realities. Perhaps they took out the faces because they couldn't bare to really empathise with people because that's who get hurt by these plays for power. Behind it is that the political is more important the personal thus all humanity in this style of art gets eroded. It completely contradicts the traditional religious view of art which can be summarised with this quote:
"For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavour to create something perfect; for God is perfection, and whoever strives after it, is striving after something divine. True painting is only the image of the perfection of God, a shadow of the pencil with which he paints, a melody, a striving after harmony." -Michelangelo
Religion is inherently natural thing to find and recognizes that we have a shared humanity thus as pull away from it you get inorganic disfigured art. And as they reject divine perfection they create intentionally ugly art. Although I'm still working out the connections here.
Apparently the artist Tschabalala Self was inspired by a cubist artist called Romare Bearden, who in turn studied philosophy of Gaston Bachelard. I'm not versed enough in philosophy to understand Bachelard.
I'm not personally well-versed in Bachelard, but after looking him up, it has opened a can of worms that looks for the worse, but unsurprising.
Bachelard appears to have supported the constructivist tradition and had great influence on the works of Foucault. Already bad signs all around.
But simply looking at the visage of Lady in Blue gives ample reason to question the philosophy surrounding its creation – nothing of value. As someone who does adhere to the dialectic tradition, I concede parts of it have some merit in philosophical exchange, however, bad actors misuse those processes to act in performative ways and promote political propaganda, which is what Lady in Blue essentially is.
That name keeps coming up. A couple of years ago one of our MPs complained about Foucault's ideas getting into the education system. And it caused an unnaturally huge media backlash and mockery from the smart left.
I'll look more into Foucault and Bachelard.
I started reading philosophy to inspire my own art which attempts at countering this.