new thoughts, quotes and speculative ideas on ART by Celino

thoughts on ART...
artistic IDEAS, THOUGHTS, REFLEXIONS and QUOTES on ART; new theories and concepts about ART
by Celino Deira


Portuguese Erotic Poetry by Celino

• There are 6 arts which are organised as follows:

2D visual PAINTING - LITERATURE verbal 1D

3D static SCULPTURE - DANCE dynamic 4D

4D spacial ARCHITECTURE - MUSIC temporal 1D

• Painting invokes Literature; Literature invokes Painting

Sculpture invokes Dance; Dance invokes Sculpture

Architecture invokes Music; Music invokes Architecture;

• Painting is visual Literature; Literature is verbal Painting;

Sculpture is static Dance; Dance is dynamic Sculpture;

Architecture is spatial Music; Music is temporal Architecture;

• Painting suggests Visual Narrative; Literature suggests Verbal Image:

Sculpture suggests Static Movement; Dance suggests Dynamic Pose/Posture;

Architecture suggests Spatial Sounds; Music suggests Temporal Forms;

 

• WHY IS IT SO DIFFICULT TO SURPASS THE QUALITY OF ANCIENT ART AND ARTISTS?

Because in the past (until XVII/XIX century) Religion had much more importance than today. Nowadays we live in a profane world while in the past the sacred was much more relevant. So, as RELIGION is in the top of  human activities in terms of importance it is easy to understand that works of art and artists inspired by PHILOSOPHY, ART/SCIENCE, JOBS and LEISURE are much more difficult to achieve a relevant meaning and quality. Here it is the full list of human activities from the most important to the least one:

1-RELIGION
2-PHILOSOPHY
3-ART/SCIENCE
4-JOBS/DAILY ACTIVITIES
5-LEISURE ACTIVITIES

So, this means that it seem progressively more difficult to expect the appearance of artists that could equalize the quality of BACH, MOZART, BEETHOVEN, SCHUBERT, BRAHMS, BERNINI, PALLADIO, BORROMINI, VIRGIL, HOMER, SHAKESPEARE, DANTE, PETRARCA, MICHELANGELO, DA VINCI, TIZIAN, GIORGIONE, CARAVAGGIO, RUBENS, GIOTTO, etc.

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The great artist does not imagine. He creates!

The great Art is not Imagination; it is Creation! 

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High culture is Art for Art itself - Classical Art, etc;
Medium culture is Art for life - Popular Art, Traditional, Folk, etc.
Low culture is Art for money - Commercial Art, etc. 


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Dimensionally, Architecture is between Sculpture and Music. Therefore, their dimension is between 3 and 4. Here are the dimensions of each one of the 6 pure Arts:
 

Spatial Arts
Painting - 2D
Sculpture - 3D
 
Spatial and Temporal Arts
Architecture - 3,5D 
Dance - 4D

Temporal Arts
Music - 1D
Literature - 1D

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WHAT IS ART FOR?

The ultimate goal of Art is to produce Classics - timeless works. Classic is that rare and brilliant work (product of a genius) that will be forever admired and revisited by Humanity.

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ART AND FOOD
The great art is as good food;
it will be better the more nutrients (motifs, themes) it contains.

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PLAYERS vs PERFORMERS

99% of pianists press buttons, strings, they sonically reproduce scores although in most cases, without making mistakes - these are the players.  
1% of pianists truly play, although in some cases, making mistakes- these are the performers. 


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WHAT IS A MASTERPIECE?
A masterpiece is something evident, unquestionable, indisputable that until then no one had remembered to do and, from then on, no one wants to destroy.

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WHAT IS A MASTERPIECE, AGAIN?

WHY USUALLY ARE THEY BIG AND COMPLEX?

And if the masterpieces were those sort of works from which were possible to extract another sub-works, autonomous and independent of the mother-work like a game of russian "matrioskas"? 

I mean:

• what if from a Painting was possible to extract multiple sub-Paintings (portraits, landscapes, etc.) autonomous and independent of the original Painting? 
• what if from a Sculpture was possible to extract sub-Sculptures (busts, statues, etc.) autonomous and independent of the original Sculpture? 
• what if from a Building were possible to extract sub-buildings (houses, small palaces,  etc.) autonomous  and independent from the Original Building? 
• what If from a sheet music was possible to extract sub-musical pieces (Fantasies, songs, Improvisations, Musical Moments, Variations, etc.) autonomous and independent of the original Music? 
• what if from a Choreography was possible to extract sub-choreographies (dances, smaller choreographies, etc.) autonomous and independent of the original Choreography? 
• what if from a book was possible to extract sub-Books (Stories, Novels, etc.) autonomous and independent of the original book?
  

This theory explains why masterpieces require a certain size and complexity, so that they can accommodate successively smaller works, but proportionally of higher quality considering its size, like a game of Russian dolls (Matryoshkas) that successively contain successively smaller dolls but in this case, different and autonomous from each other.

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WHO ARE THE 5 GODS OF MUSICAL ART?
Schubert, Brahms, Mozart, Beethoven e Bach.
And why is so?
Because they combine quality and quantity.

QUALITY+QUANTITY=CONSISTENCY 

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WHAT IS ART?
Art is the art of creating motifs (themes) and filling the space / time between them.

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The high Art cleans and purges the spirit corrupted of mundanities.

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EXPERIENCE IS STRONGER THAN INTELECT
Works inspired in Reality are better than those imagined because the reality is more complex and interactive than the mind and thought. Experience is more profitable than the intellect.

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ART and PILLS
The Motif is for Art what the active principle is for the Pharmaceutical.

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LIVE AUTHENTICALLY FOR YOURSELF, NOT PRETENDING FOR OTHERS
The best cities are those that live naturally and despise the tourist,
that desperately try to capture its trueness despite the contempt the city devoted to them.
Like a beautiful woman attracts more admirers by dealing simply, without promoting its beauty.
The city that lives for tourism is doomed and will succumb because it is based on fragile and virtual bases.
Tourism is a virtuality. 

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DON`T SPEAK THE WORD, READ IT;
DON`T READ IT, PRONOUNCE IT
To declaim is carefully depositing literary beauty
inside the mind of an audience. 

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MORE IS WORST
The growing number of architects decreases their quality, as the increasing amount of a currency in circulation decreases its value. 

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There are 2 types of movies (or artworks):

• those ones that, at the end of the display, make us to get up immediately from the chair;
• and those ones that, despite having ceased its display, make us to remain seated in the chair.

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GEOMETRY IS FOR ART
WHAT MATHEMATICS IS FOR CIENCE

The architecture is Geometry;
Geometry is mathematics turned explicit,

so, Architecture is mathematics. 

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HOW TO PROVE TIME IS THE 4TH DIMENSION?

Painting is two-dimensional or planar Geometry;

Sculpture is three-dimensional or volumetric Geometry; 
Architecture is four-dimensional or spatial Geometry.

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The great Art is wisdom and sensitivity; 
the average Art is knowledge and emotion; 
the small Art is fun and enjoyment. 

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The student knows nothing;

The Professor knows a little;
The Craftsman knows something;
The artist knows a lot.

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How to teach Architecture?

3 fundamental practical exercises to consider in the teaching of Architecture and Arts in general:

1 To the Architecture student should be asked to observe a plant, an elevation, a section, the perspective, an image, etc. of a building or project considered as a Reference in History of Architecture or in the region where the school is inserted. The observation should last between 10 seconds and 1 minute. Then the student should reproduce it by memory as closely as possible. This basic exercise should be implemented thoroughly and must accompany the student in each year of his/her course, with projects progressively more complex. This practice should be followed in the teaching of other arts such as Painting, Sculpture, etc;

2. Another basic exercise to run repeatedly for any student of Architecture and Visual Arts remaining over their learning is to pounce or copy images of masterpieces and Reference works (plans, elevations, sections, perspectives, images, etc.) respectively for transparent paper (directly) or opaque (indirectly); the difficulty of the exercise should be gradually increased according to the complexity of the projects

3. Finally, the Architecture Student and other Arts will draw directly the elevations, the general perspectives and details, plants, sections, images, etc. of masterpieces and references of Architecture. The difficulty of the exercise should be gradual increased according to the complexity of the buildings.

These exercises (DRAWING, COPYING and MEMORIZING) should be applied simultaneously and alternately along the course and in progressive complexity. Their goal is to "sculpt" and modelate the architectural mind of the student, instilling and promoting the learning of architectural language, vocabulary, sense of scale, proportion, etc., through the great examples and reference works.

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The sudden fame that arrives early, in the dawn of life,

shall be spent and fully dissipated by the time of death, when shall be extinguished;

The fame gradually conquered over a lifetime as an outcome of a hard up and persevering way, 

presents itself as a young man for eternity and will remain there for many years and will last;

the posthumous fame that reaches beyond the very end will arrive unpolluted and hold into eternity 

and endlessly endure.

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The artwork must not contain any sign of its creator, but of the community.

The work that reveals the artist`s traces is poorer;

On the other hand, the work unpolluted and free of humanity 

and the intellectual odor of its creator is the masterpiece.

In fact, the better the piece, the lower the marks of the artist;

and will be much worse in the case of being charged and saturated of their personhood.

Ultimately, the masterpiece is that one that contains minimum personal signs 

of the author and mediocre work is riddled with its personality.

However, it is impossible for a human artist to totally eliminate himself from his artistic achievements. 

Therefore, the Perfect Work and the Perfection itself does not exist.

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Never a popular can say in front of an artistic work : " I could also have done it ! "

If he says that, then it means that we are dealing with a weak work, because not even a popular the artist can surprise.

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A good translator is that one who, when facing a doubt, returns to the manuscript.

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If we want to know the future we should watch the good works of contemporary artists and writers.

Only artists can predict.

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Style is the possibility of authorship to be recognized without looking at the signature.

Celino