Monday, January 20, 2014

Nostalgia of Futurist Manifesto

The futurist manifesto was a work written over 100 years ago that seems to be out of spite for the ways of that time period. He could not stand museums and what he called the slavery that it was to live in the past. It seems so funny, though, because all of the things he mentioned like the museums being cemeteries for old works, slaving to the past, or even to allow new blood into the mix, are all things that are still highly evident today. 

Going on, museums are everywhere nowadays and it is true that a lot of them hold out for the past. I do not know if this is for the fact that most people understand it better or that the structure of the museum still believes that the old works are still art. I am not sure but what I do know is most of the museums that I have been to are constituted with traditional works from the United States and other countries. Where there is modern art, there is only a little bit of it to be found and , that too, has been there for a while. At this point, the only thing is to keep moving forward.

Also, most of what we learn in school are things that come from centuries of tradition that seem almost forbidden from breaking or even bending. for someone who wants to solely express themselves and their way of thinking would most certainly come into conflict with those old traditions. Most of the time you are expected to follow a certain method and you really cannot break away until you break away.

Lastly, nobody really likes to let in new talent in this industry. A good example is John Lasseter from Pixar. A lot of the current character design and such from disney's CGI department come from him. They do not experiment all that much with characters any more so much of the characters are similar to each other. There really is not a lot of room for new anything.

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