Art needn't concern itself with explanations. No excuse or goodly feeling should ever be offered in compromise of its expressive power.
That is what it is right, expression? Expression of my heart and her soul and the overflow of his entire being. It is "us" and we offer that part-of-"us" birth. We give it (if we have guts enough...To all who have eyes or ears or tongue or nose or nerves, those who can be persuaded to feel and smell and taste and hear and see) an existence.
some live in a sterile place, one of cold metal and white skin (or it may be orange if the one is a teenage girl). They live without "being" they've escaped our song. They are still, or if you feel in the mood for a good analogy...Distilled. Take a wonderfully dirty human being, dreaded hair and tattered soles. Take off their cowboy hat, bleach the skin, unwrap their khrama, belittle their dignity, remove their moccasin, confound their pride, create one more, combine the pieces.
peace,
Adam
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This isn't so much a response to the subject of your post, but a comment on the nature of art—the four main theories of art. Maybe you'll find it interesting.
Mimetic—imitation whether as a mirror of the sensory world (as in Plato, who further argues that art is trivial or even contemptable because the sensory world is itself an imitation of the archetypal world; therefore art is twice removed from ultimate reality) or of the forms of the universals themselves (as in Aristotle, who takes art to be greater than history because more philosophical)
Pragmatic—mimesis used by skill as a means to an end, be it didactic or pleasurable (Horace, Classicism, Neoclassicism)
Expressive—expression of feelings, the sublime contemplations of the artist, etc. (Longinus through the Romantics)
Objective
- heterocosmic model—each work as a “unique, coherent, and autonomous world”
- contemplation model—“in which each work is a self-sufficient object that is contemplated disinterestedly for its own sake.”
Brogan, T.V.F. “Poetry, Theories of (Western).” The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Ed. Alex Preminger and T.V.F. Brogan. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993. 942-954.
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Goodness, Adam of the Shire. You have fallen into silence of late. I know, I know. Your life is full of fun chaos which a year ago you'd have traded a limb to acquire. But, I MISS you. So there. I update MY blog even while I'm all post-operative and frail, for heavens' sake! ;-) J/K. Love you, man.
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