It’s About Time We Spoke About Art

I have an upcoming post summing my personal reflections on the aesthetic justification for existence. Like all things I promise, it will likely be forgotten in the chasm of ever-more stimulating ideas that surmount my consciousness. I will likely be invoking Nietzsche and nihilism and borrow generously from contemporary psychology to validate my subjective reflections, so stay tuned if you’d like to see something interesting! But as I continue to procrastinate indefinitely on that, it struck me that I’d never dedicated any one post to tackling my position on art – one which detailed my aesthetic outlook on the visual arts and also music. Before we further ourselves into this random post, here’s something out of the blue:

promote art, prevent suicide

My aesthetic philosophy follows from my desire to keep things efficient and immensely meaningful. Efficiency, unlike in the traditional contexts the term finds itself within engineering and thermodynamics and economics, can be used more broadly to refer to the doctrine of maximizing some desirable outcome for the same amount of physical labor and attention to detail. Excessive attention to otherwise trivial detail is a turn-off for me, unless they serve to capture a critical part of the painting’s theme. This hopefully should tip you in the direction of my preferences in art: expressionist that is minimalist and abstract.