If 17th century costume is what really gets you going, then I think you're mostly shit out of luck. I could probably dig out some old 8mm loops if you're desperate. Heck, you might appreciate the vintage Danish aesthetic in general - Ektachrome had something of a painterly quality.
Which is a surprise to absolutely no-one. Bumders can appreciate the female form as much as a married bloke on the cusp of retirement with erectile dysfunction and leathery skin can admit that Robert Redford in his heyday was a pussy magnet.
>>5605 There's an academic in San Diego, originally from Grimsby, who is fairly big in the "art should be beautiful" movement. I happened on his website fucking ages ago and I've since forgotten his name, but reading a few of his papers and really thinking about it, I definitely agree that modern art is wank.
I coasted to an A* in GCSE art by making some generic minimalist shite and being a good enough writer to explain in a short essay what it was supposed to represent. The headmaster still has my work on his office wall nearly twenty years later. One of them is literally a canvas split into seven columns and painted the colours of the rainbow, and the other is a massive canvas I painted all white. Modern art is wank.
I distinctly remember part of my GCSE or A level art assignments was to fill in a portfolio of work over the summer holidays. Naturally I left it all to the very last minute, so in the last couple of days before term started I was doing shite like just splashing paint randomly over photographs and drawing coloured circles over a blank page. No context, no thought whatsoever, just anything I could think of to fill the 40-odd pages I was meant to have done by the deadline.
I was both furiously pissed off while holding myself back from laughing when my teacher praised some of that shit higher than the stuff I had actually spent hours of time on. From then on I knew what art is really all about. If you can troll cunts with absolute bollocks and get away with it- That's the highest form of art.
I could go into a whole spiel about how art relates to the capitalist mode of production and all that but I'm sure you already know the kind of thing I'm getting at. And even then I hate it because such rationalisation retroactively justifies and elevates the bollocks, even when it was intentionally bollocks.
Did you hear about the artist in Sweden who just nicked a hundred grand out of an exhibit and called that his exhibit? Respect to that man, a true artist's artist. But it's tragic that that's where it's come to.
Soz but I've been drinking and replied to the wrong thread on asterisk, if a mod can delete the other post that'd be cool
>I was both furiously pissed off while holding myself back from laughing when my teacher praised some of that shit higher than the stuff I had actually spent hours of time on. From then on I knew what art is really all about. If you can troll cunts with absolute bollocks and get away with it- That's the highest form of art.
You say that but I've done the same thing with French homework.
I studied at the Russian academy in st Petersburg briefly. Well, just the prepatory school. It's gotten absolutely brutal to enter in recent years. But that's exactly what it sounds like you want. Nothing has changed there since the 19th century, they don't use artificial lighting when painting in the gloom of winter and they all kinds of other autism like wrapping paper while soggy around a "planchett" instead of using bulldog clips like civilized people. Go try the summer school to get a feel for it, its just a month in either June or July.
