The inlighted proud fence sitters

The inlighted proud fence sitters A group that I will not write of a lot in this book is what I like to call the inlightened fence sitters, though I added the word proud to the title of this chapter because that better describes them, and what exactly I want to get across when speaking of this group. They are a group of people who deliberately don’t align with the right or the left, and are very open in proud of it.
Politically they might call themselves libertarians or independent or classical liberal, but socially this group doesn’t have any unifying opinions or cultural rules. They generally don’t engage in cultural and artistic topics, and that’s why we’re going to be ignoring this broad and diverse group for the most part, because first off their not truly a part of the conversation as a group (unlike individual art writers and artists) and second, because they have no ideas to push forward to us. We’re talking not about mowing or watering down cultural ideas in art, but highlighting them and accepting them.
In the modern easy armchair intellectual’s world view, any standards at the end of the day, make you a fascist. This is wrong for many reasons, first it’s a very big misunderstanding of the word fascist, second it’s using the word is a ahistorical, white washing fashion, and thirdly it completely illuminates the possibility of canon. And without canon, how can we know what’s truly good or not? But why do we need a canon you might say, well how can we have a dialog about anything if we have no starting off points, no cultural touch stones, no shared beliefs. Why make anything if it won’t have a lasting impact. Why make art at all? Conservatives and art.
There’s a belief among many common non fanatic art lovers, that conservative people both in the modern context and historical, cannot make good art. And all artists, where liberals in their times. Innovation is inherently a nessary part of art. But is change and innovation a critical part of talent? Does doing something better then others make it that your doing something new? Regardless it cannot be denied liberal minded people are more often artistic, both in politics and in general mind sets, there are not the same thing. Liberal in attitude and liberal in politics is not always both held at the same time, in fact some of the most radical conservative minds are liberal in attitude, and most prominent liberals can be very by the books and ridged. So yes, conservatives can be artists, more so the liberal minded political conservatives, but even the odd conservative on both ends. I would agure though this is not a fact or non debatable, that the famous Italian painter and sculptor Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, was a political and minded conservative (even with his issues with the Catholic Church) because of his hard nosed, educated nature and hard line rules on beauty he had. Lines so hard he hated his own face for a nose ingery he had.



While- also a painter and sculptor but also known for many other activities, Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, I would peg as a liberal minded political conservative, but maybe a more modern term would better fit him, like a independent.







I don’t think it can be totally disagreed with that barriers, road blocks, being told what to do, how to do it, who can do it, and what can you do, is helpful to art. Besides maybe a box to work around in, total freedom doesn’t breed creativity, but neither does tight restrictions. Both political parties can do this, neither the nazies or the communists made great art in there times. And if you think we’re totally free to make art now in these modern days, go to a modern art gallery and ask what you need to get in. You’ll probably find it very unrelated to any actual art standards.




Aesthetics
Aesthetics are a hard thing to place, as they are both the most important and most childish part of art. The most bold and the most subtle. Finding aesthetics can be hard too, and which ones most appeal to you both as a lover of art, and maybe even a marker of it. Painting and drawing have always been one of the more easy skills to learn, even more so now in the modern education on mass area we thankfully and boringly live in now. In fact, now it seems like any idiot with a table and a laptop or sketchbook and copics can draw. But while art may be easy and fun to learn. Mastering it is not by any means.

Aesthetics can be a crutch for learning the most difficult parts of art, and for real learning and mastering your own personal real creative language, one that we all regardless of creative levels we are naturally born with, can learn. Hide the broken anatomy with bright colors and fun stickers. But on the other hand, aesthetics can also guide you in learning more about yourself, and art, and maybe even the world. The question is are all aesthetics equal to each other? The two sides are high brow and low brow, now which aesthetics count as either or? It’s mostly down to how much the look fits in or throws back to traditional ideas, and ones that are meant to change those ideas and offend the elite. Evolution and Revolution.

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