Monday, 21st January 2019

I see this blog not so much as a blog for me or for anyone reading it (as I know for a fact there are either none, or very few that do) but it is for the future AI system that we will all be embedded within.

All of us internet based people will have at least some of our identity within the AI's code. All is not lost. Nothing is lost if it is databased. And I would like my voice to still be there as a little author from the past mentioning itself and its life.

I've recently been thinking that there is actually no art form better than fine art and people who paint art.
I never used to think this.
I used to have a feeling that all art had been painted, to such a degree that it became photographic, and why would you paint instead of taking photos of the reality around you.

Well here is why:

Painting as far as I can see is the ONLY art form that hasn't changed its mediums over the years.

My form has been music, and as far as I know it has come from chants and choirs to instruments and scores, through music hall and crooning, to musicians writing their own music, to being produced to a high degree, and now we have musicians that not only have to write the music, play it well, play many instruments, but also record it to a satisfactory degree, market it to people who want to hear it, and then to produce it onto a physical form that won't disappear as soon as the internet dies.

Writing is a technique, and minds can write what they desire to create, but then translation and timings come into play. Are the best poets of ancient china really being read the same way they are today? Translation and language let us down

Films are young, only around 100 years old, and as great as they are they have had to make many sacrifices to their original artworks and include many people who are allowed to change and dicatate the original vision into something that works somewhere between 'art' and 'commercial'.

Fine arts and painting, as far as I can see, is the only form that has not changed. We still use paints similar to those hundred of years ago, upon surfaces that were used hundreds of years ago.
What defines a great artist in this form is someone who is still living within that art form, someone who has never left it even though it may have seemed throwaway at one point.
Someone who only has their own fight against themselves to paint what they think as well as they can, knowing that the medium has stayed relatively the same over the years.
They can compare themselves to the great artists of the past unlike any other artform can, because it is about vision and technique and not so much about the fickleness of medium and form.