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Just curious, are you really calm on the long term in a minimalist decor? I get that when you look at it at first you don't get assaulted by input (as it is min

by vladms 2y ago

Just curious, are you really calm on the long term in a minimalist decor? I get that when you look at it at first you don't get assaulted by input (as it is minimalist), but can you keep an inner peace for long because of the decor? For me, in such a decorated place, I get a calming effect on the longer term by just studying the details, which makes my mind not focus on your every day worries (or what stupid thing happens somewhere in the world) but rather on other questions/observations. Then, when I get back to every day worries I can see that maybe my worries were exaggerated, misplaced.

mattlondon 2y ago
Not "minimalist", but simple, plain, neutral: very much yes. Would you say you get a calming effect from studying the details of a tiktok or facebook feed? Unlikely I expect. Too much going on, too much fighting for attention etc - its draining. I cannot see how people can complain about how "bad" the modern internet is with social media and then decorate their houses the same way?!
- skyyler 2y ago
  Comparing beautiful ornamentation to algorithmic content feeds is kind of strange to me. Even if a piece by Heironimus Bosch or Pablo Picasso was used as wallpaper, that would be significantly less stimulating than an agloslop content feed.
- vladms 2y ago
  Would definitely not getting the same effect from a tiktok or facebook feed, but static art/decoration are quite different from that for me. For one, the art stays the same, the only thing you can change are your position and the lighting. Second, most art is much less political, does not claim to be something it is not and does not try to sell you something. So quite some advantages.
  - mattlondon 2y ago
    > Second, most art is much less political, does not claim to be something it is not and does not try to sell you something I am not much of an art expert, but pretty much all art is about that from what I can recall from school?!
    - vladms 2y ago
      The discussion started from art inside a house (not like a public statue). Lots of art in houses is meant to be pretty (think of painting on a wall with a city you love, a portrait of some family, an abstract set of colors on a canvas, a statue of some Greek hero, etc.). The sale process is before you look at it in your home (as opposed to social media, where the sale is after you look at it). Some contemporary artists can try to shock and can engage in "political" statements, but I never saw personally any such thing in a home. And, anyhow when you talk with such artists the points their trying to make are so convoluted you need to know all (art) history to get what they are trying to say... (which I didn't so they had to explain it)

by vladms 2y ago

mattlondon 2y ago

Not "minimalist", but simple, plain, neutral: very much yes. Would you say you get a calming effect from studying the details of a tiktok or facebook feed? Unlikely I expect. Too much going on, too much fighting for attention etc - its draining. I cannot see how people can complain about how "bad" the modern internet is with social media and then decorate their houses the same way?!

skyyler 2y ago
Comparing beautiful ornamentation to algorithmic content feeds is kind of strange to me. Even if a piece by Heironimus Bosch or Pablo Picasso was used as wallpaper, that would be significantly less stimulating than an agloslop content feed.
vladms 2y ago
Would definitely not getting the same effect from a tiktok or facebook feed, but static art/decoration are quite different from that for me. For one, the art stays the same, the only thing you can change are your position and the lighting. Second, most art is much less political, does not claim to be something it is not and does not try to sell you something. So quite some advantages.
- mattlondon 2y ago
  > Second, most art is much less political, does not claim to be something it is not and does not try to sell you something I am not much of an art expert, but pretty much all art is about that from what I can recall from school?!
  - vladms 2y ago
    The discussion started from art inside a house (not like a public statue). Lots of art in houses is meant to be pretty (think of painting on a wall with a city you love, a portrait of some family, an abstract set of colors on a canvas, a statue of some Greek hero, etc.). The sale process is before you look at it in your home (as opposed to social media, where the sale is after you look at it). Some contemporary artists can try to shock and can engage in "political" statements, but I never saw personally any such thing in a home. And, anyhow when you talk with such artists the points their trying to make are so convoluted you need to know all (art) history to get what they are trying to say... (which I didn't so they had to explain it)