Sol Luckman
Consider this passage about the effect of seeing an albino owl under the moonlight as a kid from my self-illustrated artist memoir, MUSINGS FROM A SMALL ISLAND, as you check out the little playlist below of fine art #shorts:
The moment was both intensely captivating and extremely odd. I only began to understand this weird dynamic that equally applies to the art I like decades after the fact when I discovered the writings of the Russian modernist philosopher Viktor Shklovsky, who proposed that what characterizes genuine art is “estrangement.”
“The purpose of art is to impart the sensation of things as they are perceived and not as they are known,” he wrote in terms most obviously relative to visual art but that apply to any genre. “The technique of art is to make objects ‘unfamiliar,’ to make forms difficult to increase the difficulty and length of perception because the process of perception is an aesthetic end in itself and must be prolonged.” […]
The memory of the owl has always stuck with me and, with a little interpretive help from Shklovsky, guided my own efforts at creating artistic works—both literary and painterly—that might be called “strange attractors.”
“When the going gets weird,” wrote Hunter S. Thompson in the supreme prose monument to estrangement, FEAR & LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS, “the weird turn pro.” Well, the going’s definitely weird and I turned pro years ago.
But if you’re among the chosen few, meaning you’re a bit strange yourself, we’re at least distantly related. Maybe you’ll experience some meaningful estrangement yourself while reading this text and viewing the accompanying images.
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