Arsonette
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Post by Arsonette on Dec 15, 2010 23:20:28 GMT
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Post by M&M&M on Dec 18, 2010 7:26:03 GMT
Those look awesome arsonetty, I can only imagine how much time it took to draw the designs on those scales. I'm getting dizzy at the thought of it.
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Post by Allen on Dec 19, 2010 3:46:50 GMT
I'd be interested in hearing how you relate the designs to the psychological concept of superego! I'm no art critic, but I _AM_ a psychology minor >.>
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Arsonette
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Post by Arsonette on Dec 21, 2010 18:23:04 GMT
I'd love your opinion Allen! I live with 2 psychology students but fresh ideas and opinions always help! ^^ Basically as you know according to Freud's theory the super ego is the moral center of the mind. It dictates what thoughts you act upon from your subconcious. For instance if someone is really pissing you off you may think about punching them in the face but very few people act upon that. But some people do, some people rape, pillage and murder. Their opinion of good and bad, their very centre of morality is different, skewed. It's similar to how in western culture dragons will always be evil and the bad guys whereas in eastern culture they are creatures of wisdom and power. Good and bad, a metaphor of the thoughts that can be seen as good or bad depending on your super ego. Like abortion, revenge, punching your boss etc etc Ok this is really badly worded but I think it more or less sums up the pretentious artist babble I hope anyway.
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Post by Allen on Dec 23, 2010 18:17:17 GMT
Hmm, the superego might govern the way you react, but I think what you're getting at is more cultural conditioning. The superego defines whether or not you do something, but it doesn't make distinctions between good and evil. That's done through your intellectual beliefs, which (like it or not) are influenced by your background. Like you said, most westerners see Dragons as evil, and most oriental cultures see them as neutral, if not necessarially good. This has less to do with over/underdeveloped superego, and more with cultural identity.
aaand that's about as much psychology as my mind can take without axeploding at this time x.x
EDIT: I just realized what a bad title "Dragons of your Cultural Identity" would be
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Post by Arsonette on Dec 24, 2010 17:28:51 GMT
But you see that's kindof the point. Depending on your cultural identity, intellectual beliefs, upbringing and life experiences your morality center will be completely different from anothers. Most britains would never dream of eating a dog but in Korea it is a delicacy. The dragons are just representations of the thoughts whose morality is questionable. And this is without bringing in the whole issue of the morality of aesthetics! What do you think of the aesthetics anywho? EDIT: I do think my art babble and titling needs work definitely though!
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Post by Arsonette on Jan 1, 2011 21:53:27 GMT
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