Are There Recent Great Works?
Great works of art can be found throughout history, you can see them in books, paintings, music and great architecture. Do we still see those great works created today? In our modern world of happy pills and treat everything that is there I believe we are curing ourselves out of some of the great works. There have been a few in the past 20 or so years though and some has come to us though the medium of film.
So let us first define what a great work is, it is not a Sci-Fi comic adapted, or futuristic utopia story like Star Trek, or X-Men. What a great work is something that tells a story gives a message passes along some hidden knowledge to those that can see it and understand it. We know we are approaching the end of the calendar and there have been many warnings about what is to come with the changeover but the only one believed to have been done is by Stanley Kubrick in 2001: a space odyssey. I will not even try to explain all the reasons for this since another fellow has already done a fantastic job of this. On his website Jay Weidner has done a complete examination of the film 2001 and has explained many of the alchemical properties of the film 2001: a space odyssey. You can see it all here.
As for my own observations here are a couple of shots that might be of interest one from the opening of the film and one from today’s NASA gallery eerily similar I think.
Opening 2001:a space odyssey
The Hubble Space Telescope stands tall in the cargo bay of the space shuttle Atlantis
Here is another shot from within the film can you see the precision of the shot with respect to the monolith of man.
Yes we have been graced with some great work but we really have to look for them today, let us hope we don’t happy pill away all our great artists.
Related Posts
Leave a Reply
