What this is about. A bit of backstory
Readers of older posts will have noticed dead links to the Band's social media on Gab and Oneway. Both accounts are defunct, but we learned from the experience. What we are doing is not broadly interesting, but it is very interesting to some people. We are disinterested in popularity or recompense - the Truth is what matters, and it is very rewarding to see our ideas and thought formations turn up in much further reaching places. Let the leaders lead and leave the seers to see. The Band is empirical at heart, and slow organic growth while we refine our skills and message has proven to be the way to go.
We are narrating our own journey of intellectual awakening after years of lies and slumber, and we are not always clear on the destination. Or how we will get there.
Public social media distracts from this.
Ferdinand Knab, The Castle Gate, 1881, oil on canvas, private collection
The Band is active in walled gardens - private platforms that aren't open for public access. This has proven to be an effective way to cultivate slow organic growth. Pre-screened audiences and reality-facing codes of conduct means improves the signal-to-noise ratio dramatically.
Having experienced the difference, the Band expects walled gardens to only grow in popularity. Think about finding or building your community now and be ahead of the curve.
One of the things we've been doing is posting works of art with short comments. Character limits are a great way to keep wordiness to a minimum. There are two reasons for this.
Dan Gerhartz, Dawn of Hope, oil on canvas, 21st century
The first is to reconnect others with the cultural heritage of the West - in most cases, their tradition.
Giovanni Paolo Pannini, Interior of a Picture Gallery, 1749, oil on canvas, Wadsworth Atheneum
The second is to develop our own understanding of this material. We have posted mainly 19th century paintings, and what we've discovered is totally different from the official story presented in the surveys and timelines that the Band uses.
Another world-level different.
This being the most successful painter in America-level different.
Albert Bierstadt, Yosemite Valley, 19th century, oil on canvas, private collection
This revelation is a big reason why the art posts have taken the direction they have - we've come across an unknown-to-us cultural inversion and deception of civilizational proportions and are trying to come to grips with it. These pictures and comments part of how we are acquiring the awareness and understanding the patterns that will give us an entirely different art of the West. One rooted in Logos and able to be handed down with pride.
The point. A trusted ally suggested we collect the art posts in a place where people outside the walled garden can see them. It's an excellent idea, and one we should have thought of before. Also, if readers enjoy following our journey of understanding through the blog, they may like to see a different one taking place in another medium. So what we will do here is post groups of the pictures and comments as they originally appeared. We won't be editing or expanding - the idea is to minimize the amount of busywork - just putting them where they're accessible. Once we catch up, we'll add new collections as they accumulate.
1. Americana - 19th Century & a few Contemporary
2. Hudson River School & other Americans I, Russians I
3. English I, European I, Contemporary I
4. Hudson River & other Americans II, Russians II
5. English II, European II, Contemporary II
6. Medieval Art and Stained Glass
7. Europeans III
8. Hudson River and Other Americans III, English III
9. Hudson River and other Americans IV, Russians III
10. Europeans IV, Hudson River School and other Americans V
11. English IV, European V, Contemporary III
12. European VI
Thanks for doing this, I especially am glad of the labels on all the art. We need more uplifting art.
ReplyDeleteThanks for reading and dropping by. This has become a new direction. We'll see where it goes.
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