Some people said they recognise something in the concept of kyaut or that it made them consider their relationship with art so I'm putting my writing up on here.

What is Kyaut.

"Kyaut" is what Rena Ryuugu from higurashi says upon seeing something cute. I showed her my Байкальская нерпа pics on my phone once and she wuz all like "hau---- this is sooo kyauuut, do you have any нерпа games on your phone". I've always thought this was true until I replayed Higurashi and I found out she says "kyute" instead of "kyaut". She has never ever said "kyaut" in her entire life. I got so mad I f Even with that, I still enjoy the word kyaut. A lot of the art i like, i would call it "kyaut". Don Cherry "Mu"? Kyaut. Van Gogh Harvest 1888, Kyaut. Robbie Băsho, Kyaut AND I wish I was just like him. But just like Rena Ryuugu in Ch1. Onikakushi calling a lifesized colonel sanders doll kyute, none of this is conventionally cute. It's not cute but, Kyaut. I wondered what I really meant by kyaut, why am I such a kyaut enjoyer. I've never gave much thought to why I like the art I like, and given any specific painting/album I love I'd struggle to give adequate words to describe my feelings for it. However by looking at all the things I call "kyaut" in a bigger scope I can somewhat piece together an aesthetic/idea underlying a significant portion of my taste: a collection of communications, meanings and attitudes that i hope to find within art. I want to describe this idea of "kyaut" the best i can, because why not. Art enhances meaning in life, and when making art we like to imbue it with meaning, figuring out what those meanings are is good (and should be a core exercise for all enthusiasts).

What is Kyaut.

Kyautness starts with cuteness. On asking the question of what is cute, the standard answer is that of neotenous traits: big eyes, big head to body ratio, small features, etc. These are powerful visual cues which make us see things as cute. You could even take something conventionally not cute like a hammer and by manipulating it's proportions, giving it a super tiny handle, a large head and rounded features, it would look cuter. I'd consider many cute looking things as kyaut, so is kyautness just that, cuteness? I would say no, the hammer example I gave is a superficial cuteness, and not kyaut. Neither would excessively chibi and sparkly anime be kyaut. I see the experience of cuteness as one aspect of a deeper emotional faculty, and at the heart of this the idea of kyautness lies within. I'd like to draw a parallel with what I'll call orthodox ideas of beauty. There are many commonalities we find within classical art, a common example is that of idealized human figures and proportions, roughly 1:8 head to body ratio, perfectly chiseled/rounded features - these are strong visual cues for grace, dignity, power, order, all of which are important aspects of western classical beauty (obviously not the full picture for something which entire books could be written about). However if you're anything like me, you're disappointed at the sight of a painting like The Source by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, it is a perfect example of the ideas of classical beauty, yet for me it doesn't hold any beauty. You're free to (and probably will) disagree with my example, but this is all to say that beauty isn't some mechanical blend of beauty tropes. To me kyaut is a different planet of aesthetic and beauty just like orthodox beauty is it's own planet, and kyautness doesn't emerge out of a play of cute tropes, such as neotenous traits.
_{("Can't you just call kyaut "the things i find beautiful", yes, but the point is that I see it as a distinct planet of aesthetic for which I don't see a useful word existing already, also not everything that I love is kyaut)}

Now that I've established kyautness as an aesthetic and idea only approximated by cuteness, I'd like to elaborate that the things I'd call kyaut people wouldnt find even marginally cute, if i had to guess. As i mentioned before, I see cuteness as one experience of a greater emotional faculty, other qualities that I find expression in this faculty are humility, curiosity, honesty, there's an opposition to the dramatic/Wagnerian as well as that inner feeling that something's precious and must be protected... and most definitely other things. Some themes/topics I see as kyaut could be: the role of individuality within community, an Ornette Colemanian focus on sanity/harmolodics, humility in the light of the creator, tales of finding beauty in the discarded and unattractive. If u read any of these and think "yeah i see that could be kyaut" then basically, my brainwashing is working. And also coming back to cuteness, thinking about the openness to experience that we'd find cute in a child, it's something kyaut as well, and now from kyaut to cute we have come back full-circle. I'd like to call things like Saxophone Improvisations Series F. by Anthony Braxton cute but I don't think others would understand, hence i say kyaut and I hope my purposes in writing all this becomes clear.
I see kyaut things being indebted to many movements in art and they appear in many areas, even in classical art, which I contrasted kyautness as opposition to before (I don't dislike classical artat all, quite the opposite). Though when talking about visual arts what I personally find important to kyaut is the candid expression found in realism and the curiosity of lightplay in impressionism/post-impressionism which opened the door to all manner of expression with colour. It is no coincidence that my favourite painters all come from this era.

Yeah, and?

Nothing. It's just one way to explain what I find important in art, and kyaut art is the art Iwanna make. Why do I prefer something like Don Cherry's "mu" First / Second Part compared to something like John Coltrane's Ascension, both in the domain of Free Jazz? Because it's just kyauter ok. If i was smarter I could explain these things better.

Examples please

Vincent van Gogh "Irises"	Vincent van Gogh "Harvest"	Vincent van Gogh "Iris Field"
Jean Francois-Millet "Starry Night"	Jean Francois-Millet "Young Woman Churning Butter"	Jean Francois-Millet "Charity"

Van Gogh is the kyautest artist ever. Enclosed field with Peasant 1889 and Harvest 1888 are my most treasured works ever but I think the kyautness is much more readily apparent in a work like Irises. In it's graphic intensity and curious attention to the flower's details and their interactions of line, the painting psychovisually straddles the boundary between realistic depiction and symbolic drawing (not to be confused with the Symbolist movement); it could be considered the World's most complex childs drawing, which is really kyaut. Though Van Goghs thoughts and sentiments are not childish at all in my eyes I consider him the smartest person to ever live.