Art - Tryanny

 The Tyranny of Style: Why Real Art Must Be Free



I’m do not like being advised to pick styles in art. 


As if art were a fashion line. As if creative freedom should wear a uniform.


Real expression resists the cage.


 The insistence on one visual language, one tone, one aesthetic—this is commerce, not creation.


 It's branding masquerading as identity.


"I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum." – Claes Oldenburg


The greatest artists moved through styles like weather systems. They changed because they had to. Because the inner truth kept morphing, and they followed it, unafraid.


 Picasso didn’t stay in the Blue Period just because it sold. 


"Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it." – Bertolt Brecht


Singular style is tidy. And tidy is death to the wild root of art.


To limit an artist to one form is to gag them. Gagging in any form is anti Art (and anti British)


"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed." – Steve Biko


(...and the oppressor in art is often the critic, the gallery, the expectation.)


True liberty includes creative liberty.


 Libertarians get this—freedom means self-direction without coercion.


 Let that include your brushstroke, your colour choice, your refusal to repeat yourself for comfort's sake.


"I am a free man, and I will act as such." – Milton Friedman

(Apply that to your canvas.)

So refuse.

Do not settle for one line, one palette, one mood.


Don’t make art to soothe you. I make it because you want to be authentic

Aliveness ought not monochrome, too subtle or monotony.


liz lucy robillard




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