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The BEDROOM & the PROFUNDITY of Pieter De Hooch: Feat. Some Aristotle, Arendt, Jung, Seneca, & Bible
This video went out of control, because apparently I'm unable to control myself. On the positive side, this may be my most layered piece of writing yet, containing the kernels of what I believe about everything. There is plenty of meaning playing out in the open for everyone to see, but the deeper meanings often like to hide out of sight in the shadows and bushes; some camouflage themselves with other pieces of scenery. Keep your eyes peeled for them.
We’ll touch on a ton of topics like: Should we focus on death or on life? What is the nature of the space which we call a ‘bedroom?’ I’ll broadly scan the body of work by Dutch Golden Age artist Pieter De Hooch (1629-1684). Most all of the paintings in the video, unless otherwise indicated, are by De Hooch . Hopefully, you’ll be able to recognize his distinctive style after watching this video.
We’ll attempt to get inside de Hooch’s mind, discussing the epistemology of ‘seeing’: how light and shadow reveal truth and tell stories and how light creates value. There is a relationship between our subjective feeling and the motion of the planets.
Finally, we’ll ask what the meaning of life is. If an artist was willing to put so much time and effort—HOURS of meticulous labor—into painting scenes like these, and if people were willing to pay to have paintings like these, it must give us a clue as to what these people found meaningful. The meaning of life is to create and to take action. Reason and verbal articulation alone are insufficient to discover what life is. Only when we take action can we truly ‘see’ and understand in the first place.
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