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The original leftist sales pitch for ending religion was that it was going to be replaced with rationalism. But leftist culture and politics has little of rationalism to it. Instead its politics has become a religion, complete with salvation, damnation and doomsday, while its culture increasingly resembles a pagan orgy of unreason and superstition.
Don’t take it from me, take it from the uber-leftist Guardian’s cultural coverage of the arts. (Such as they are.)
At Lamb Gallery in London, Surrealism and Witchcraft opens this month, showcasing work by 11 female artists. Lucinda Bellm, Lamb’s founder and director, says surrealism is enduringly relevant. “The tumultuous first half of the 20th century set the stage for the emergence of surrealism,” says Bellm.
“Now that discussions around feminism, gender, and power dynamics are increasingly vital, it’s the perfect moment to celebrate female artists who draw inspiration from surrealism.”
She thinks witches are a potent symbol for female artists navigating a predominantly male art scene. “The witch offers a means to delve into complex themes of dreams, gender and sexuality.”
Behind the academic gibberish is something else entirely.
Artist bones tan jones was one of the artists featured in the Somerset House exhibition and also had an installation at the Serpentine Gallery in 2022. They have just been announced as artist-in-residence at The Sustainable Institution in Europe. Their work has strong connections to paganism and spiritualism.
“As someone who feels deeply connected to spirit and earth, it’s important for me to view my artwork as craft and ritual,” says tan jones. “For me, every choice has meaning, every material is an ingredient in the cauldron that is the artwork.”
While emerging artists such as tan jones are gaining recognition, other art movements connected with spirituality and magic are being rediscovered, such as the surrealist movement – which had strong ties to magic, with many artists including ritual and symbols in their work.
And this isn’t new.
Modern art set out to deconstruct art and accomplished its mission. Having destroyed the old, there’s nothing left except nonsense and gibberish.
Structure has to come from somewhere and predictably it will come from the ancient forms, paganism and superstition, and the darker elements associated with it.
Witchcraft is characteristic of primitive societies, such as the pre-Colonial tribes in Africa. For example, fetish worship, where certain strange objects are supposed to have magical powers (one thing I encountered in my recent reading 😉
Witchcraft is the domain of manipulative deception and glorification of all that is evil. It has no virtue, no strength, no active, positive goodness.
But evil has seemingly endless energy and creativity, often rendering itself into beautiful forms and angels of light.
100% correct, Daniel. The typical leftist diatribe usually makes it’s way around to the removal of man’s “made up” religion so as to ease the implementation of their own narcissistic “faiths”.
THX 1138 says?
You can pat yourself on the back all you want for your rationalism, and it is a great thing on an individual basis, but there will always be a disproportionately large group of irrational people to deal with.
Rationalism vs Reality
Sadly rationalism losses every time it finds itself in a crowd. I wish it were different.
Mob behavior has always been with us, even in the most civilized of nations. Only silly utopians think we are becoming better and will someday be ruled by a “universal law of reason.”
I would argue that utopian fantasy has been the standard ever since the formation of the United Nations. Isn’t it fitting that “utopia” means “no place”?
Romans 1
21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.
24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
All this in time to believe in jinns and all the “black magic” nonsense that has been absorbed into islame.
I believe the US Democratic Party has been into this for some time, with their “spirit cooking” with sicko Marina Abramovitch. The U.K. had the Hellfire Club in the 18th century but now there are the Freemasons. A few years ago I went to paint in a lovely churchyard nearby, the poor vicar complained to me that they had been invaded by goths( satanists) who wandered about the graveyard threatening people and actually living in the old trees and desecrating tombs.
Where there is a vacuum, something will come to fill it. Unfortunately art is always co-opted into evil: a couple of days ago, on instagram someone uploaded a fake kids painting of what they saw Israelis doing and this was lauded on the mainstream PaintBritain site that I had been follwing( up to then) Sickening that all institutions are kow- towing to nazism.
Women just aren’t good artists. Yes, females were generally prevented from being artists, but you’d think at least a few would defy the odds and their work would endure. It happened in science, medicine, literature and other fields, but not art. There’s a reason.
I had to deal with a leftist/satanist female artist from the New York art scene for 40 years or so. Her paintings were grotesque, like a bunch of skeletons sitting on a couch having tea. Anyway promoting female artists was a big part of the leftist program at the time. Her favorite artist was Georgia O’Keeffe. I found her work kind of insipid.
Whenever I buy a new (used) car, I always have a toy version of that same car sitting on top of the dash. If the little car is OK, then the bigger car will be OK, right? Magical thinking.
There’s actually a name for that, though it slips my mind.
Kind of like the Voodoo Doll principle.
Trying to debate with a person who doesn’t reason is like giving a flu shot to a dead person.
The demonic is working overtime these days in order to destroy the truth. It knows its time is short and is lashing out. Just like the first time it is trying to use woman to accomplish its goal, trying to mock that which will destroy it.
Wrecking the economy and ruining peoples careers has become a way of life for Socialists and the M.S. Media bottom feeders
The Sustainability Institute? Lol, a jobs program for crappy artists that can’t get anybody to buy their garbage with their own money. I know the US, and State/local governments waste a ton of money on crap, it wouldn’t surprise me if the UK does too. I wonder if they donated to those jerks that are hitting the galleries with the classics? It wouldn’t shock me either.