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"To sing and play an instrument, to dance, to draw, to create beautiful objects from the materials available in the environment, is as natural a part of being human as it is to walk, talk, and play. The atrophy of these functions began with the advent of the Neolithic division of labor, and accelerated as the division of labor intensified with the industrial revolution, which also created the means to replace them with mass-produced substitutes.

As the magical power of art came to be understood in terms of its representational content artists pursued perfection in their images - tantamount to perfect control over reality. (see transcendental temptation)

Yet when Raphael, Michelangelo, and Leonardo da Vinci made the final technical breakthroughs in perspective around the year 1500, nothing magical happened. Perspective painting records objects as they look, at a moment in time, thereby implicitly subordinating reality to the human observer and affirming the fundamental dualism of seperation of self from the natural world.

The ambition was to make representation real, the same ambition that lives on in the latest version of the trap for immortality: the software simulation of consciousness in a virtual reality world. We now live almost wholly in a manufactured reality, a world of images, but nothing has actually changed." - Charles Eisenstein

"In the West the painter's and sculptor's job has been to design the perfect trap for human immortality." - John Ralston Saul

"I believe that Eskimos do not have a satisfactory word for art because they have never felt the need for such a term. Like most other hunting societies, they have thought of the whole act of living in harmony with nature as their art." - James Houston

"Traditionally, the arts have been ways of making that have placed a just value on their materials or subjects, on the uses and the users of the things made by art, and on the artists themselves. They have, that is, been ways of giving honor to the works of God." - Wendell Berry

"The brain has a strong propensity to organize information and perception in patterns, and music plays into that inclination. From an acoustical perspective, music is an overstructured language, which the brain invented and which the brain loves to hear." - Michael Thaut

Art is defined as:

the products of human creativity

the creation of beautiful or significant things

human works of beauty considered as a group.

a nonscientific branch of learning; one of the liberal arts

a field or category of art, such as music, poetry, or literature

a superior skill that is attained by study, practice and observation

photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication

human effort to imitate, supplement, alter, or counteract the work of nature

high quality of conception or execution, as found in works of beauty; aesthetic value

a trade or craft that applies a system of principles and methods: the art of the lexicographer

a system of principles and methods employed in the performance of a set of activities: the art of building

skill arising from the exercise of intuitive faculties: "Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice" (Joyce Carol Oates)

the conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colors, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the sense of beauty, specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium

"Art is like chocolate to the brain. Art taps into both sides. Art has benefited the soul of the species since the time of cavemen.

Behavioral scientists point out that activities that give you a sense of mastery, a sense of control, have a very positive effect on your well-being. A sense of mastery and of control creates positive feedback to the immune system." - Gene D. Cohen

Findings from biological research suggest that sustained involvement in positive, gratifying activities results in positive immune system responses, suggesting a protective immune system boost for individuals involved in positive, gratifying activities such as the creation of works of art.

artist

an individual whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination.

an individual whose work shows exceptional creative ability or skill.

one, such as an actor or singer, who works in the performing arts.

one who is adept at an activity, especially one involving trickery or deceit: a con artist.

one, such as a painter, sculptor, or writer, who is able by virtue of imagination
and talent or skill to create works of aesthetic value, especially in the fine arts.

Feel sick to my stomach a lot
from being doted on all the time,
very sweetly, by people who are facing doom.

You can always hear the tanks and bulldozers passing by.
I have had bad nightmares about tanks and bulldozers
outside our house and you and me inside.

Tanks and bulldozers destroyed 25 greenhouses
the livelihoods for 300 people.
Then the bulldozers come and take out
people’s vegetable farms and gardens.
This happens every day.

I think that I should at least mention that
I am also discovering a degree of strength
and of basic ability for humans to remain human
in the direst circumstances.

I think the word is dignity.
I wish you could meet these people.
Maybe, hopefully,
some day you will.

Rachel Corrie

Rachel Corrie was killed by an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Caterpillar D9 bulldozer on March 16, 2003
in a non-violent protest while trying to stop the destruction of Palestinian homes in Gaza.

"He [the driver] knew absolutely she was there. The bulldozer waited for a few seconds over her body and it then reversed, leaving its scoop down so that if she had been under the bulldozer, it would have crushed her a second time. Only later when it was much more clear of her body did it raise its scoop." - Tom Dale

Dr. Yehudah Hiss, an Israeli pathologist, found the cause of death to be "pressure to the chest." Her shoulder blades had been crushed, her spine was broken in five places, six ribs broken and her face was slashed by the bulldozer blade.

"Art used to be inexpensive and human life was valued.
Today human life is cheap and art is expensive."
- Joni Gordon, Newspace gallery

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