New Aesthetic
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- fadein110
Great PHD paper. Shelf life - a week
- ORAZAL0
I've been following The New Aesthetic tumblr for a while and it has always been nothing more than posts on the new aesthetic (our current one), as hansglib said there has always been and there will always be a new aesthetic.
Now people are getting all Kony 2012 up on that shit.
- detritus0
So hold on, I've been neck deep in this movement for my whole emergent life and, in my mindless stupidity, never thought to come up with a label for it?
Ever one to miss a trick.
I just wish I knew exactly what it was I should've made a label for.
- uan0
but I didn't read the articles...will do when I have some time.
interesting link, thanks for sharing :)
- uan0
and I would compare it the the cubisme, where picasso, gris and braque actually developed a new aesthetic based on african sculpture influence and technology (photography) at that moment in time.
- uan0
the surrealists, yes.
the impressionists, no. that name was given by the critics to that art movement, and with a negative conation at first.
- mydo0
do you think the surrealists or impressionists just sat around in a french coffee shop and gave them selves a name. probably.. job done.
it's a little harder these days. where better to name an art movement than a tumblr account.
- "Impressionist" was a derogatory name given as a joke by some critic that they then adoptedpig
- hansglib0
I've only skimmed through this, but on a quick glance it seems nothing more than the usual need to make something out of nothing... writers with nothing better to do trying to make sense of (codify, identify, what-have-you) a torrent of non-related material .
Technology has enabled/emboldened many more people to "create" stuff, whether it has any artistic merit or not. Some people feel the ensuing tsunami of material needs sorting/classifying (though god knows why - who cares?) and "the new aesthetic" is the name they have come up with.
There is no "new aesthetic" - just new technology. Before instagram (for example), people made marks on paper, some good, some not so good. The thought process is the same, the technology has changed, that's all.
- sublocked0
Wow. Give me a bit to sift through this all. Thanks.
- mydo
Not exactly new. but feel this should be a thread here. It is basically an art and design movement inspired by seeing the world like digital devices.
It started here.
http://new-aesthetic.tumblr.com/…then it got complicated
http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_…Then some more people joined in.
http://www.thecreatorsproject.co…Thoughts?