Postmodernism
Postmodernism
January 3, 2007
Art has lost its significant sacred voice in the past 40 to 50 years, ever since Andy Warhol started producing postmodern art in a factory. Postmodern art reflects our times and has become commercial art, art reduced to business, art made for the marketplace, glorifying the marketplace, a game of the rich, buying and selling art like they buy and sell stocks on Wall Street. Postmodern art is shocking spectacle, glamorous trivia, packaged and commodified diversion, irrelevant and sarcastic fluff. Postmodernism has been critical of the disappointments of modernism, and rightfully so, but rarely does it have any positive redemptive social value or healing power. It offers no spiritual vision into the future. Perhaps it is because our postmodern world seems so hopelessly lost that our art seems to have hopelessly lost its spiritual voice. Perhaps in our postmodern scientific capitalistic world nothing is sacred anymore.
Curvism wishes to restore some sense of spirituality back to art. Curvism does not merely wish to reestablish the old time traditional views of spirituality as commonly expressed by religions. Curvism wishes rather to renew spirituality, to help spirituality be reborn. Science and a masculine world view dominates the definition of humanness. Curvism wishes to elevate the spirituality of the feminine in order to rebalance our human nature. Only in balance can we live in harmony with Nature and each other.
Curvism as an art movement wishes to be a voice for the sacred, wishes to keep the symbols of the circle and the ellipse sacred. Curvism wants the commercial world to have sacred intentions when they use the symbols of the circle and ellipse. Curvism hopes to help the corporate commercial capitalistic world see that our peaceful coexistence with the natural world and one another depends on having sacred intentions.
These intentions need to be based on compassion, fairness and a sense of equity, and concern for cooperative relationships with one another and with nature. We can no longer exist with quality if we continue to value competition, consumption, greed, and the exploitation of nature and each other. The capitalistic market can no longer be the sole measurement of human value.
Curvism believes that with some help, guidance and vision the capitalist worldview could alter their intentions to move towards more sacred actions. Curvism believes this can be done by expanding higher, wider and deeper the definition of the sacred by identifying commonalities within the diversities of the major religions and wisdom traditions. Curvism sees the circle and ellipse as symbols of the unity and wholeness of the sacred.