The free-play of the imagination and our understanding of, which is our agreement with, a piece of Art is the most sublime example of how beauty pleases us. Our imagination is left free to relate to the form while our understanding is left free to accept the creative play at work or not.
We must have only an emotional attachment to Art. Judging it within the confines of right and wrong is an ignorant practice for Art inherently denies such binaries.
He who experiences a piece of Art must be devoid of all interest in the object i.e. free from any interest in the existence of the product itself. It should merely be a disinterested pleasure. Consider, for example, the unicorn, the Pegasus, or Wilde’s green carnation… Our appreciation of Art is therefore not a logical or cognitive judgement but an aesthetic one. It is the content, not the form, which is important. That is all.
Art has its own inherent purposiveness, as with nature which has two. Nature has an objective purposiveness i.e. we can understand, through experience, what it is doing. For example, we know that a plant grows upwards to reach the light to photosynthesise. The other purposiveness is that everything in nature is unique; we know, through the laws of nature, that no two plants are the same. It is this individuality that is essential to beautiful Art. Beauty is distinctiveness; it is flawed. Thus, beauty is the consciousness of the pleasure we gain from our insight into one’s imagination (Art) and our sound understanding of it.
Beauty to Art can be an accessory but not necessarily its main component. Art is an aesthetic idea (something which may or may not be rational) but it can also be a method of exhibiting a sensible idea, rationally. It has in it the ability to serve a higher purpose; for revolution, for change. Art is, after all, the communication of ideas.
Art is a site for the rich interplay between genius and taste; it can be soulless. Surrealism, for example, is no less capable of revealing a hidden or poetic truth than Realism.
Art works on three levels:
Nature is beauty
Art is our attempt to capture that beauty
And thus what we have is an emotional or intellectual response to that attempt.
All art is immoral.
We must have only an emotional attachment to Art. Judging it within the confines of right and wrong is an ignorant practice for Art inherently denies such binaries.
He who experiences a piece of Art must be devoid of all interest in the object i.e. free from any interest in the existence of the product itself. It should merely be a disinterested pleasure. Consider, for example, the unicorn, the Pegasus, or Wilde’s green carnation… Our appreciation of Art is therefore not a logical or cognitive judgement but an aesthetic one. It is the content, not the form, which is important. That is all.
Art has its own inherent purposiveness, as with nature which has two. Nature has an objective purposiveness i.e. we can understand, through experience, what it is doing. For example, we know that a plant grows upwards to reach the light to photosynthesise. The other purposiveness is that everything in nature is unique; we know, through the laws of nature, that no two plants are the same. It is this individuality that is essential to beautiful Art. Beauty is distinctiveness; it is flawed. Thus, beauty is the consciousness of the pleasure we gain from our insight into one’s imagination (Art) and our sound understanding of it.
Beauty to Art can be an accessory but not necessarily its main component. Art is an aesthetic idea (something which may or may not be rational) but it can also be a method of exhibiting a sensible idea, rationally. It has in it the ability to serve a higher purpose; for revolution, for change. Art is, after all, the communication of ideas.
Art is a site for the rich interplay between genius and taste; it can be soulless. Surrealism, for example, is no less capable of revealing a hidden or poetic truth than Realism.
Art works on three levels:
Nature is beauty
Art is our attempt to capture that beauty
And thus what we have is an emotional or intellectual response to that attempt.
All art is immoral.
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