humanist hardly

i am not a humanist. for that i have to believe that the human is the center of the universe and the height of construction among the living.

all information we gather about the human show the contrary.

lately we saw a octopuss using a tool. a last refuge for our greatness vanished. we hardly accepted that some apes use tools. now we have to deal with the issue that spineless squids know how to use a tool. what a desaster for a selfcentered being.

being humanist is always used in terms regarding the protection of the human or living. human society showed humans reach their height under danger and extreme circumstances. protected environment lead to mediocre life. he becomes good but not inventive. all great invention that enhanced human life was a invention for war or the asociated industries or craftworks.

is the human the center of the universe. hardly. mathematicly it is possible for developing circumstances that protect or make possible life. it is possible that the life on other places in the universe is much more advanced and the living their are much more advanced living then the human are.

and is the human the most advanced on earth. he has tools so the squid. he has housing so do many living building nests, he has family so do many living and with more care, he has wisdom, we don´t know about the widom of the other living, you can´t compare, and the other living is far ahead it has greater eyes, better ears, greater smell, better taste, more senses electric organs, infrared, ultrasonic sound wave and other senses we know nothing.

turn the page we know nothing.

contemporary art

contemporary art started with modernity. the invention of the photographic machine made shift. art gave up to create photographic images or recreate a real image of the outer world to favor a view of the inner world.

the photographic machine was able to recreate the reality out of us. so it was no longer necessary to recreate reality via a painting that would actually take longer to create then a photographic image.

the artist could now concentrate himself to his inner world. recreate images of his personal inner world. till then only described by words through various artists. now realized in a image. visible for us all.

she shift did not came immediatly or suddenly after the invention of the photographic machine.

the century before contemporary art made a shift from real image recreation to subjective recreations of the outerworld for almost several generations.

we call their art as impressions the artists as impressionists. it is a recreation of the personal perception of the world by the artists. they made the first step that would lead to contemporary art in the change of the 19th to the 20th century.

the third important influence in creation contemporary art was psychology. experimental psychology or better physical psychology and their discovery of the psychology of perception created the philosophical legislation for the shift of art of reality to art of psychology. the fashionable theories of psychoanalysis at that age did their part for an environment that created the contemporary art.

recreation of nature is not necessary not a artform anymore since a photographic machine can create a much better image of the real world they argued.

so they created cubic images. geometric figures out of real images. created real images out of geometric figures. reduced the complexity of nature to some geometric figures. they added their visual world. the visual world of the inner world to the image. so they made a new artform.

in this perception they were shortsighted. first of all real images, photographic images of the outer world are a relative new movement in art. the renaissance for example had real photographic images in christian art. the first time in christian art real realizations of the world with the real dimensions and realations of the visualized images. despite that the paintings were not photographic images as we would see a painting of the impressionists. the paintings were symbolic. sybolic as the byzantine art is. we have a real lion a real person a real whatever and every image stands for something. it is not a photographic realization. a lion for example in a renaissance painting means pride. so they symbol or the symbols of these paintins carry the painting. additional to that the geometrical composition of the paintings takes the second rank. mostly composed in a triangle. respresenting the trinity.

so we see on two examples subjectivity and geometry were issues in paintings before contemporary art created or discovered it for themselfes. we had them both already in paintings years before.

the third issue search for psychological truth is not new also. even if it was covered in theology in christian times. both movements sought for truth inner truth. discovery of the inner world.

so what really brought contemporary art. that´s the question it is. first of all our brief review showed that it has no rights to look down to the academic art of the generations before them. since they add nothing new to art.