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oViDiU LEBEJoARA

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and I am god on the Earth” (Joseph Stalin). There is, in modern art an
element of protest transformed in a period of transition. Transition to
what? Some of us would say that we are going somewhere, not that we
are going from bad to worse. The extreme forms of Dada movement,
which was a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy at the beginning of world
war I, and worse followed: world war II and so on... Dada made cynicism,
anarchy, and rebellion into core values.
”Today, the subject of art seems to have suffered a decisive alteration,
or looks to be as it is disappearing. The art still talks around us, often
with a firm decision of talking about nothing”. (gaetan Picon).

Art in general is supposed to be a sum of ideas based on human emotions
and state of mind. It was the idea at the beginning...
Art is opposite to NOTHINg. In the Universe, nothing does not exist. This
nothing (nihil) is a conventional false value, the same like money. Both
have been cultivated In human mind, special in modern era, both very
effective tools of oppression. Art should enlighten our spirit not break.
For the modern man, philosophy is religion and art is an attempt to
express mysteries, which who do not have to call the truth. Selfish
humans replaced faith in god with faith in them-self: ”god is in Heaven,

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