Art
The Value of Value in Miniature Painting
Paint a couple hundred Warhammer miniatures, and you’ll start to have some opinions on how a miniature should be PROPERLY painted. For myself, I’ve dialed in on two main tenets which guide all my miniature painting: There is, of course, some skill in speed painting, but today I’ll focus on the second point: the importance…
Read MoreTop 5 Best Eraser Brands to turn into dirty words
In the spirit of the start of the fall school semester, I thought I’d take a look at one small bright spot in what is otherwise a rather bleak trudge into adulthood. Nothing makes “listenin’ to some dipshit that doesn’t know what the hell he’s talkin’ about, anyway” more tolerable than finding ways to immaturely…
Read MoreIO5M 20: The Top Five Most Metal Artworks from the Flemish Renaissance
Welcome back to my most infrequently occurring Monday feature! I’m speaking, of course, of Infrequently Occurring Fifth Monday (IO5M), where I come up with a new “top 5″ list on a quad-yearly basis. If you ask me, like music and systems of government, art of olden times just has a certain quaint barbarity that really can’t…
Read MoreQ: Is Origami Art? A: Sure, but…
Is origami art? The question is not completely fair since origami involves the act of creation after all, making its artistry hard to argue against. Still, can origami really be elevated to the level of the great masterworks of film, painting, music, writing, etc.? I also do not mean to put the word art on…
Read MoreThe Merit of Genre: The Brief Lives of Black Metal and Die Brücke.
Here it is the end of January and I haven’t posted anything all month. Since I try to get at least one post a month in, I decided to go ahead and cheat (instead of actually writing something new!) and post an essay from a research project I did a few summers ago. I tried…
Read MoreA place for art? A clarification of Platonic aesthetics.
Plato seems to get a bad rap when it comes to his views on art. Many first time readers are quick to protest, How could someone that so many people revere as the father of Western thought hold such a low estimation of the arts, specifically that they have no place in a perfect society?…
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