[blind-democracy] Re: 'Art is incompatible with lies, hypocrisy and conformity'

  • From: "Roger Loran Bailey" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "rogerbailey81" for DMARC)
  • To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 21:06:48 -0500


If you read the article that spawned this thread in the first place you will see that that was the main point of it. There is no one way to do art and trying to restrict it to some one way or narrow rules is virtually criminal. It still remains, though, that there are various kinds of art that at first glance have nothing to do with each other. What does music have to do with painting? What does sculpture have to do with dance? Yet these activities are all called art. If they are art despite their differences then they must have something in common that makes them all art. The commonality is simply that they are all imbued with human created patterns. In no way does that deny that various individual or collections of art invoke an emotional response in various people. But the varying emotional responses are not what makes it art. If that was the case I would not have recognized that piece of sculpture that I described earlier as art because it never evoked any emotional response in me at all.
On 1/6/2016 4:11 PM, Alice Dampman Humel wrote:

There is not one correct way to approach art, not as an artist, not as a viewer, listener, reader, etc. Creativvity, imagination, interpretation, symbolism, sound, words, poetry, music, color, composition, shading, nuance, emphasis, none of these things is some kind of rigid or exact concept or medium.
Try this approach, written by the great Pierre Boulez, may he rest in peace.
"The aim of music is not to express feelings but to express music. It is not a vessel into which the composer distills his soul drop by drop, but a labyrinth with no beginning and no end, full of new paths to discover, where mystery remains eternal."
-Pierre Boulez, RIP (1925-2016)


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