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Pie charts as aids to artistic sublimation interpretation! I’m reading Eric R. Kandel’s The Age of Insight right now and enjoying it to bits. One thing I’ve learned so far is that Sigmund Freud said that all art is a sublimation (a different and loftier use) of the two primitive, instinctual drives of all human beings: the sexual drive and the aggression drive. I thought, “That sounds about right, I guess, but how do we know which way an artist is leaning when he or she goes sublimating all over the place?” So I busted out the Crayola Crayons and invented what I call the “Sex/Fight Pie”! Artists can draw these on the backs of their works and make the rest of us a whole lot less confused all the time. Now art lovers and art critics will know exactly what percentage of sex and aggression is being sublimated in each of an artist’s works. I hope they catch on! There’s nothing more illuminating than a Sex/Fight Pie.
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Pie charts as aids to artistic sublimation interpretation!

I’m reading Eric R. Kandel’s The Age of Insight right now and enjoying it to bits. One thing I’ve learned so far is that Sigmund Freud said that all art is a sublimation (a different and loftier use) of the two primitive, instinctual drives of all human beings: the sexual drive and the aggression drive.

I thought, “That sounds about right, I guess, but how do we know which way an artist is leaning when he or she goes sublimating all over the place?”

So I busted out the Crayola Crayons and invented what I call the “Sex/Fight Pie”! Artists can draw these on the backs of their works and make the rest of us a whole lot less confused all the time. Now art lovers and art critics will know exactly what percentage of sex and aggression is being sublimated in each of an artist’s works. I hope they catch on!

There’s nothing more illuminating than a Sex/Fight Pie.

Who loves Crayola Crayons? I love Crayola Crayons! What beats Crayola Crayons at sketching out quick ideas in colour? Nothing that’s what. The proof is in the above snapshot of my sketchbook. Not only that, but let’s say you sketch a bird or something and you’re thinking, “Damn, that’s going to change the way people think about birds FOREVER! I have to make a large oil painting of this baby. Samuel, call the valet and have him bring the car around. We’re going to the art supply store!” The colours are already laid out in your sketch and the colour is written on the side of the crayon. All you have to say is, “Shopkeep, give me a smallish tube of Razzberry Jazzberry, and a largish tube of Lime Vacation, add it to my tab and have that clean, but shabby girl behind the counter put them in my Jag.” How convenient is that?
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Who loves Crayola Crayons? I love Crayola Crayons!

What beats Crayola Crayons at sketching out quick ideas in colour?

Nothing that’s what. The proof is in the above snapshot of my sketchbook.

Not only that, but let’s say you sketch a bird or something and you’re thinking, “Damn, that’s going to change the way people think about birds FOREVER! I have to make a large oil painting of this baby. Samuel, call the valet and have him bring the car around. We’re going to the art supply store!”

The colours are already laid out in your sketch and the colour is written on the side of the crayon. All you have to say is, “Shopkeep, give me a smallish tube of Razzberry Jazzberry, and a largish tube of Lime Vacation, add it to my tab and have that clean, but shabby girl behind the counter put them in my Jag.”

How convenient is that?

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