Modern Design, Modern Mind?

saw Hustwits' "Helvetica" as part of my search for worthwhile educational material.

And what can I say other than it was very illuminating for me.

My journey as an artist at this point is a pivotal one. I have shorn all my anxieties over mimesis-- this cult of representation that still grips the Art school I attended. I mean now, I just want to express myself just because I want to--it is as Collingwood said, art is for expression -- communicating to an audience is an afterthought--if I may dare say irrelevant.

And I love it.

I mean it is liberating. It makes me proud of what I am. I am an artist.
and it feels damn good.

So seeing "Helvetica" has only strengthened my position, I am born after the advent of the camera--after Benjamin

THE WORK OF ART IN THE AGE MECHANICAL REPRODUCTION

what does it mean to be an artist now? Where photography has taken over mimesis, where everything can be reproduced endlessly

when after Baudrillard

THE WORLD IS REMADE INTO THE IMAGE OF OUR DESIRES

Simulacra, endless
endless

Who cares if can't paint like Caravaggio, Titian or Rubens?
Theirs was a world deprived of images--and now we are bombarded every single day
I am a child of my time, I wasn't trained classically--we were all just thrown to the dogs--
to the real world, clueless, driven only with the primal desire of survival

who really prepared any of us for

HYPERREALITY?

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I loved how the docu showed me that I have this modernistic tendencies
I mean, yeah...
I love flat art, solid color, bold type--modernism

how after the horrors of WWII mankind or the West (hehehe) was ready for something new, to embody the sense of Idealism for the new age

no shit

It is what I respond to, and I'm glad I at least know where I'm taking all my sensibilities from.
Modernism appeals to me--I love bold text done diagonally across an expanse of red or blue
I dislike pixels--I'm more vector based

and that is how I work right now.

--not to mention that it showed a particular design community that more or less shares the same problems that I do. I loved the interviews since I had access to the insights of the creative process as presented from artists different from me, from other parts or the world.

That now matter where you are
Tokyo, Paris, London, New York, Zürich or Manila

Artists on some level share the same problems

I holler back to all of 'em