concept + kitsch

in the acad­e­my of roy­al arts antwerp
2004
the art teacher
who is a fe­ro­cious mod­ern art lover states
what is art

some­one says qual­i­ty
he writes it on the board

some­one says beau­ty
he writes it on the board

he then says
we don’t know what art is
 

in a phi­los­o­phy book
1990
it is asked
is schopen­hauer then also solipsistic?

we don’t know that
 

also in the academy
we don’t ju­rate clas­si­cal works anymore
it’s just there
you can’t say any­thing about it

as if peo­ple be­fore kant’s
kri­tik der reinen vernunft
did­n’t speak 

ob­vi­ous­ly
 

in the us
in architecture
we did­n’t know any­thing bet­ter than to stick things back on
 

are these events unrelated?

they are not unrelated
what you see is the col­lapse of the sub­ject culture
 

what i claim is schopen­hauer is in­deed also solip­sis­tic

i passed that point
 

if ca­mus claims
if schopen­hauer is right
the only real philo­soph­i­cal prob­lem is suicide

he then goes on
find mean­ing

but if every­thing is sub­jec­tive
what is his meaning?

how do you find mean­ing if every­thing is sub­jec­tive?
 

pop stars will tell you to
be­lieve in yourself

all the time

but they can’t state any­thing else be­cause every­thing is sub­jec­tive
 

fou­cault
at the very end
was work­ing on one thought

that would be the col­lapse of all philo­soph­i­cal systems

pre­sum­ably
a thought of pow­er and go­ing over sub­jec­tiv­i­ty   •  •  •
 

so where do we go then?
 

i my­self have been in­sane in 1999
not know­ing what to think

since then
i start­ed eval­u­at­ing cul­ture as threads that all end in today’s world

to­day
peo­ple all pick a sub­ject from antiquity

es­pe­cial­ly
pick a subject

most­ly
un­aware of the whole thread in the past 240 years

peo­ple pick artists
as they evaluate
pre­sum­ing they are a subject
and con­sid­er­ing an­oth­er artist is a subject
unrelated
to time they are in their own universe

but this is all bollocks

since 1999
i have grad­u­al­ly ab­sorbed more clas­si­cal sentences
and have crys­tal­ized an aes­thet­ic prin­ci­ple out of a con­sid­er­a­tion of the colour of nature
fantasy
that i call kitsch

grad­u­al­ly declining
from ro­man­tic
to neuschwanstein
to the eftel­ing

and con­cept

grad­u­al­ly declining
from clas­si­cism
to neo­clas­si­cism
to fas­cist minimalism
to mod­ern sky­scrap­ers

and key on the door hous­es and mansions

now i reck­on there are some bril­liant mo­ments in mod­ernism but con­sid­er most mod­ernism is by far 

out­dat­ed
 

so with the con­cept colour
and the kitsch colour

you can do a lot more then with sub­jec­tiv­i­ty

i mean the eftel­ing has
con­cept roofs
over
fan­ta­sy decors
be­cause they can’t be seen

but it can be es­tab­lished what these colours are

i once re­ferred to a build­ing as a container

the art teacher then replied
it’s as pro­ject­ed in your mind

no, no
that’s why it is built as a container

sad­ly
he nev­er got it

and most peo­ple don’t seem to get it

 

—aey­lyeaelle ell­he de ellendeh

Flom­mist Aey­lyeaelle Ell­he De El­len­deh is a ne­oro­man­tic and neosym­bol­ist artist and philoso­pher, stud­ied sculpt­ing at The Roy­al Acad­e­my of Dec­o­ra­tive Arts of Antwerp Bel­gium, He de­cried ac­tu­al­ly hav­ing fall­en in love stand­ing be­fore the Psy­che of Leighton in Lon­don, hav­ing cried over the Sleep­ing Beau­ty by Suss­mann hell­born and hav­ing spir­i­tu­al re­li­gious af­fec­tions for the Sphinc Mys­terieux by Charles van der Stap­pen. Dec­o­ra­tive sculp­tor and Au­thor of a neosym­bol­ist mythol­o­gy on Kant­ian per­cep­tion, on the imag­i­na­tion, in­spi­ra­tion, art, deca­dence, es­thet­ics and pas­sion, hate, mis­an­thropy main­ly. Heav­i­ly in­flu­enced by Huys­mans A re­bours and Schopen­hauers refuge in art as Sades will to free erotics. He in­vent­ed the Eif­fel tow­er sev­er­al times the size of the cur­rent one in paris to launch trains into space in an art nou­veau way. He in­vent­ed can­dles on re­mote con­trol. He in­vent­ed a game of chess with over 200 pieces per play­er and in an en­tire­ly clas­si­cal and de­scent set­up. With a line of Bish­ops, an Army, an­gels, boul­ders, with tow­ers that need to be de­fend­ed for­ward to launch the boul­ders, with a court, and a high­er court with Elvin, Elvin King, Em­per­or, Em­press and vam­pire of melan­choly and a vam­pire le­gion. He is a self de­clared mad­man and of­fi­cial­ly de­clared in­sane by the state of Bel­gium deu to his ro­man­tic up­risals. De­sign­er and ar­chi­tect of the fu­ture city of Anae­htheana, which is best de­scribed as the most beau­ti­ful and lux­u­ri­ous place ever de­vised, with the con­crete bridges done again in mar­ble, a wild zoo where the high­way is now. And a for­ti­fied vat­i­can in­spired wall for a le­gion of Joans of Arc he is try­ing to call. Among that, he is call­ing upon all ar­che­types cur­rent­ly in cos­play goth­ic and mu­sic to build, among oth­er things, a Vam­pire Lane with goth­ic schools, goth­ic mu­se­ums and goth­ic lounges and palaces. And an Angh an­gel fortress. It is his one and only and fi­nal mis­sion to re­place all com­mer­cial bill­boards with ro­man­tic and aca­d­e­m­ic paint­ings. Etc … Copy­right © 2024 Aey­lyeaelle Ell­he De El­len­deh. Thomas Kinkade im­age swiped from.‬

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