Valerioism its Valerious!

Valerioism began just before the turn of the twenty first century in Cornwall and concerns the movement inspired by the prominent yet elusive artist Valerio. Whos influence was to inflame the entire establishment, not only through art but also through architecture , poetry, music and philosophy and waqs the initial turning point of recreational professionalism. It turned away from what had become the convention and pre conception of what art was generally considered to be in that place and time.

After the commercialization and corporate attempts to monopolise the high street means of art retail , the inevitable retaliation by the true creative core, the independent artists and galleries, was to steer once again towards the raw essence of true social , theological , and environmental concerns in an attempt to once again create enduring art and to encourage genuine patrons to think and feel, instead of succumbing to the inherent obsessive compulsive acquisition mentality that had become so common.

In turn this coined the term 'Valerious' to describe a system of embracing ones existence and to literally live life till it kills you. An ironically stoic approach, whilst still making acknowledgement of the profound importance of influence and suggestion for the beneficial progression of humanity.
 During these politically charged decades some even considered it to encompass a kind of martyrdom tendency.

if only it was as simple as that.....

reference to the Illuminati trilogy, and indeed much does go on.......................

The London Underground.

In regard to the recent article featured in Thursday's Evening Standard, the Arts Council's position seems to be under attack from the governments frenzied cuttings. The real problem that is apparent here in these times of economic turmoil and uncertainty is that there simply isn't enough production and manufacture happening here.

This country was always through  the pages of history a very lucrative place to be, we had the raw materials and the ingenuity to be able to take the very fabric of the countryside and turn it not only into a means of sustenance, but so much more than that, with the development of labour saving technologies medicinal technologies and humanitarian policy.

In recent years we have seen the huge increases in the prices of certain commodities, take fuel and property alone, using just those two examples as a means of gauging production and consumption. Both could now be argued as a limited resource, and ones given the anticipated continued population explosions would denote that perhaps this trend of taking commodities that used to be plentiful and are now perceivably harder to evenly distribute. If you take those commodities out of the reach of the poorest people by means of overvaluation then they become less accustomed to being so reliant on it. Anyone familiar with the enclosure acts of the 1700s knows that  the dividing and redistribution of common land was tackled in much the same way, then those who would ordinarily desire those commodities will 'choose' to be less dependent on them as financial constraint's coerce them into finding a more economically viable means within the limits of their own budgets.

Phew, so when the creatives are undermined and ridiculed, you know that as our last testament to a productive people that could actually work themselves out of poverty using only the land that they were born into dwindles from the imagination of the majority that have allowed themselves to be blindsided.

Leave it to those with the sense of imagination and direction, to try something different and personally I can think of no better way to begin than to take the land back from those that would keep it from us, and to encourage as many as would care to live a different way to steer our infra-structure back to the people relying on themselves a little more instead of having to show obedient gratitude for the minimum we are granted by the powers that be .

Consider this.....

Let it be known across the land,
 That the images cast by this very hand,
If refused as daily bread,
Will all be gone once im dead.

what happened to the late Robert Lenkiewicz was really nothing short of a tragedy, the immediate repute and commercial value of the Artist after he died was so immediate , so heart breaking really as to warrant a reflective thought !

I remember reading about another artist from the region ( although actually I forget his name now ) but this particular artist had generated quite a body of work and a suitable reputation to boot ..... and he left instruction for all of his unsold work to be destroyed when he died , as a means of attempting to prevent exactly this kind of thing happening....... a notion that really appeals to me !!

To whom it may concern......

The law Arrests the man or woman ,
Who steals the goose from the common.
But leaves the the greater rascal loose,
Who steals the common from the goose.

Consider this.....

having just returned from what i consider to be a freaking screaming maniac of a place i cant help but appreciate my surroundings all the more and be very thankful for the specific rythems of these hills of mine ......

what can be made of this......

You walk into a gallery showcasing over 20 different artists from a 20 mile radius from proffessional status to amateur with more varieties than you could shake sticks at in watercolour acrylic and oils with a sale price on all commission pieces,
                you take a 2 second look shake your head and say " I PREFER THE OTHER GALLERY " Even tho the other gallery only sell factory prints by a load of commercial comedians.

I do wonder sometimes if people are all that well in the head perhaps the concentration of coffee in the blood and the lack of oxygen in our brains but me thinks there is a terminal madness descending upon the human race.

hold on it might get a bit bumpy up ahead

The Challenge Afoot

The absurdity of a lifetime of futile labour is the worst case scenario for an artisan such as myself, to produce works of no apparent commercial value in the scale of  receding markets for the sake of the work itself; and yet when you compare that to whatever the majority are willing to trade up the majority of there lives to attain, perhaps it isnt as bleak as all that!!!

isms and ologies depict the very fabric of human understanding!

the very fabric of human understanding is rooted so deeply in various aspects of historical relevance, though few have been able to carry the momentum or influence of  the artists image or the written word. The very unlikely pairing of Art and the Sciences is the very spawning point at which our most human of attributes ( understanding) is most taxed.
 through all of sciences historical categorizations the diagram has proved the most reliable tool for the recording of results the planning of investigations and the communication of ideas.
To find the most interesting records of history instead of looking for dates of specific monarchical rulings or political shift, seek your references from the artistic or scientific records as the most accurate portrayal human reaction to unjust government and relays a real sense of this society of ours and the way in which we consider our own parts to play.

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