From: Technotranscendence (neptune@mars.superlink.net)
Date: Sun May 19 2002 - 18:23:02 MDT
On Sunday, May 19, 2002 3:54 PM Anders Sandberg asa@nada.kth.se wrote:
>> On another list, someone sent me this link:
>>
>> www.romanticrealism.net/newberry/manifesto.htm
>>
>> He basically told me that these works portray heroism in art. Now, I
>> don't get that from any of them. Do you?
>
> Well, there is a certain exuberance in them - very objectivist,
Definitely influenced by that, especially with the rhetoric.
> but almost bordering on new age aura paintings. :-)
I felt it was a bit too cartoonish, but "new age" kind of hits the nail
on the head here. I mean I could picture any one of those paintings
being on a cover of some softcover in the New Age section of a
bookstore.:)
> I think I can
> see the author's point. But isn't heroism about fulfilling or
> exceeding one's potential? In that case these pictures don't have
> much of that, they mostly depict moments of *being*, they do not
> depict what people *do*.
I don't know. Even the one with the woman and man in bed looks like it
could be a drug trip gone bad.
Now, I'm not trying to pooh pooh the whole Romantic Realist movement. I
just wish they would put out some stuff I could actually admire and
might want to hang on my wall -- if I had the cash to buy it.
Thanks for your input!
Dan
http://uweb.superlink.net/neptune/
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