Update: AAU: First Term: First Half

27. March 2010 by RobinOnTheWay.

Well here it is nearing the end of Spring Break and I finally have a spare moment to make a post on my blog. The first half of my first semester at AAU has been quite intense. There has been some definite opposition directed toward me that I have had to overcome. I ask for your prayers to help me through my next four years of study as I earn my MFA while attending the university half-time.

In my Motion Pictures Aesthetics and Styles course I have studied Formalism, Realism and Spectatorship; Subjective Interpretation; Sergei Eisenstein; and The Bauhaus School. I also have been learning about the various historical art movements and how they have affected film. The movements I have studied so far are: German Expressionism; Avant-Garde; Modernity; and Neorealism.

I have learned how religion, war, politics, and their injustices have historically been the motivators behind these art movements. However, something that has bothered me in the films I have watched is the futility portrayed. In other words, the filmmakers reveal social issues but offer no solution to them.

This is where the Neo-Renaissance art movement differs. Neo-Renaissance is a new art movement that looks beyond our physical existence and into the spiritual world where answers to humanity and social issues lay at hand.

In his book, The Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature, Carl Jung (1966) wrote:

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him [or her] its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own end, but one who allows art to realize its purposes through him. As a human being, he may have moods and a will and personal aims, but as an artist he is “man” [or “woman”] in a higher sense—he is “collective man,” a vehicle and moulder of the unconscious psychic life of mankind. That is his office, and it is sometimes so heavy a burden that he [or she] is fated to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being. (p. 101)

I am open to other artists joining James and me to work together and bring about positive change through art.

Please email me if this interests you: Robin@NeoRenaissanceTheatre.com

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