Head of a Ruler
Iran or Mesopotamia, 2300-2000BCE. Copper Alloy
Now at the MET
https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/47.100.80
Gudea of Lagaš
Girsu, Mesopotomia, circa 2120BCE. Diorit.
Now at the Louvre.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gudea#/media/File:Gudea_of_Lagash_Girsu.jpg
Bust of Nefertiti
Tell el Amarna,18.Dynasty, 1345BCE. Limestone, Stucco.
Now in Neues Musuem, Berlin.
P.Pikart.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nefertiti_Bust# /media/File:Nofretete_Neues_Museum.jpg
Attributed to Praxiteles.
Hermes bearing the infant Dionysus.
Circa 400BCE or if copy circa 200BCE. Parian Marble
Archaeological Museum of Olympia, Greece.
Tetraktys.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermes_and_the_Infant_Dionysus
#/media/File:Hermes_and_the_infant_Dionysus_by_Praxiteles.jpg
Da Vinci. Vitruvian Man
Circa 1492 CE, Milan. Ink on paper.
Currently at Galleria dell'Accademia, Venice.
Luc Viatour.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitruvian_Man.
https://lucnix.be/
Fountain by Marcel Duchamp.
Readymade _ a porcelain urinal, 1917.
Image(amended):
Alfred Stiglitz's silver
gelatin print. 1917.
Public Domain.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Duchamp_Fountaine.jpg
Plato and much later Kant probably envisioned the progress of humanity as innately bound with higher moral standards and intimately associated with the education of the citizens of the state. The French revolution was in no small way also a tribute to such a humanistic conception. The American founding fathers were almost fully drenched in congenial humanistic tradition and today Steven Pinker, just like Yuval Harari, despite the up-downs of institutionally safe-guarded human rights in the course of human history, are acknowledging a steady progress in human condition no less thanks to this heritage; even as the latter is less optimistic about the future.
But the consumer society, supported by economical theories, more like tribal mythic ideologies than as they are often called “scientific” theories, seemed to have hijacked the original ideal of raising brave, free, educated and enlightened citizens of a state.
How could it be different in institutionally recognized art! It is phenomenally well supported by a statement from an New Yorker artist, Andy Warhol; acclaimed by the media and from media influenced new age academics; whose works have become big assets for trade and barter in the very economy that they for various reasons celebrate.
Green Coco-Cola Bottles by Andy Warhol
1962.
Acrylic, screenprint, graphite on canvas
Whitney Musuem
https://whitney.org/collection/works/3253
What’s grand about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same thing as the poorest... you can know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and, just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke, and no amount of money can get you a better Coke.
It celebrates the coming of age of a human being; not on ones morality, education and critical thinking standards but purely the buying power of the citizen as the sole determinant of human progress.
Like many composers of jazz music and equally many singer song-writers, I have my own obligatory piece of cale-kingly-same-old and dylany-tangled-up Blues and, as a member of the consumer society, of course my own Readymade:
A Tachikawa Nib Holder
A digital Readymade, though slightly modified, downloaded from:
:http//www.jetpens.com/Tachikawa-Comic-Pen-Nib-Holder-for-Various-Pen-Nib-Model-25/pd/4583
That?
It ain't trendy dude! And absolutely non-provocative!
Sure, it is not!
It is in fact opposite of that, rendered in no less passionate, even if not trendy voice.
It celebrates the enlightened classical thought; without which the new-age protesters would probably not have the means
and the technology; with which they so vociferously protest against the past legacy. It is, to sum it up, a tribute to
classical learning; and in my opinion well represented by ink and nib.
artworks of Milos bhat
in stone and textile wrought
