How can we kill creativity? The English say that there’s more than one ways to skin a cat, but let’s think about this a bit. How can we kill creativity? … Continue reading Art And Creation (Part 10): Can We Kill Creativity?
Tag: Art
Ancient Art & 19th Century Aesthetics
Over the course of the past couple of months, I wrote a series of articles on three different but interrelated themes: a. the myth of Laocoon, the Trojan priest whose … Continue reading Ancient Art & 19th Century Aesthetics
Art And Creation (Part 9): 3 Steps To Reach The End Of Art
This is part of a blog series where I share some thoughts on “art and creation”. I have prepared various blogs inspired by a range of sources from Kabbalah to … Continue reading Art And Creation (Part 9): 3 Steps To Reach The End Of Art
Art And Creation (Part 8): The Quality Of An Aesthetic Experience In Time
This is part of a blog series where I share some thoughts on “art and creation”. I have prepared various blogs inspired by a range of sources from Kabbalah to … Continue reading Art And Creation (Part 8): The Quality Of An Aesthetic Experience In Time
Art and Creation (Part 7): The Duration Of Art
This is part 7 of a blog series where I share some thoughts on “art and creation”. I have prepared various blogs inspired by a range of sources from Kabbalah … Continue reading Art and Creation (Part 7): The Duration Of Art
Art As A Revelation
An excerpt from my recent article on John Dewey’s aesthetic theory for TheCollector
Animated Apollo
While working on my very first video essay on Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy (a topic which I have discussed in this blog before here and here), I began experimenting with … Continue reading Animated Apollo
Art and Creation (Part 6): Fractal Art
This is part 6 of a blog series where I share some thoughts on “art and creation”. I have prepared various blogs inspired by a range of sources from Kabbalah … Continue reading Art and Creation (Part 6): Fractal Art
Art and Creation (Part 5): Pleasure in Creation
This is part 5 of a blog series where I share some thoughts on “art and creation”. I have prepared various blogs inspired by a range of sources from Kabbalah … Continue reading Art and Creation (Part 5): Pleasure in Creation
Art and Creation (Part 4): The Uniqueness-Repetition Dialectic and Lastingness
This is part 4 of a blog series where I share some thoughts on “art and creation”. I have prepared various blogs inspired by a range of sources from Kabbalah … Continue reading Art and Creation (Part 4): The Uniqueness-Repetition Dialectic and Lastingness
Art and Creation (Part 3): Uniqueness and Repetition
This is part 3 of a blog series where I share some thoughts on “art and creation”. I have prepared various blogs inspired by a range of sources from Kabbalah … Continue reading Art and Creation (Part 3): Uniqueness and Repetition
Art and Creation (Part 2): DNA and the Unity of the Movements
This is part 2 of a blog series where I share some thoughts on “art and creation”. I have prepared various blogs inspired by a range of sources from Kabbalah … Continue reading Art and Creation (Part 2): DNA and the Unity of the Movements
Art and Creation (Part 1): Ein -Sof and Kabbalah
This is a blog series where I will be discussing some thoughts on “art and creation”. I have prepared various blogs inspired by a range of sources from Kabbalah to … Continue reading Art and Creation (Part 1): Ein -Sof and Kabbalah
My work on Tolstoy’s ‘What is Art’
I recently wrote a blog series on Leo Tolstoy’s essay “What is Art”. The blogs mainly dealt with Tolstoy’s critique of his contemporary art and the art of the upper-classes. … Continue reading My work on Tolstoy’s ‘What is Art’
Leo Tolstoy and Art for Art’s Shake
Art for art’s sake? This is one of the questions that have been puzzling the modern world for a few centuries now. The answer cannot be untangled from the commercialisation … Continue reading Leo Tolstoy and Art for Art’s Shake
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Panta Rhei (1952)
In 1952 Bert Haanstra, a dutch cinematographer, created the short documentary Panta Rhei. The name of the title translates as everything flows which is a phrase used to encapsulate the … Continue reading Panta Rhei (1952)
Freud looking at Medusa
Lately I have been reading a lot about Medusa’s symbolism and place in ancient art and religion. That’s how I came across this essay by Sigmund Freud written in 1922 … Continue reading Freud looking at Medusa
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Nietzsche’s poem on Heraclitus
Nietzsche wrote a poem that has been interpreted as a dialogue with Heraclitus and his everlasting flame
Plotinus, Neoplatonism and Beauty
Plotinus (ca 205-270 CE) was the founder of Neoplatonism, a school of philosophy inspired by Plato’s ideas some 600 years after the philosopher’s death. Plotinus was born in the Lycopolis … Continue reading Plotinus, Neoplatonism and Beauty
When Heraclitus became Borjes (part 2)
In a previous blog I presented a poem called “Heraclitus” by Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentinian poet and author. In that blog I also briefly introduced the pre-socratic Greek philosopher … Continue reading When Heraclitus became Borjes (part 2)
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