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Position:Home>General - Arts & Humanities > When it comes to your taste in art would you rather feast on art that is "rQuestion: When it comes to your taste in art would you rather feast on art that is "rechtsch㶮" or "schrecklichsch㶮"?I am inquiring here about taste in all forms of "art," not just the visual arts. Please include music, literature, film, etc. in your consideration as well as painting, sculpting and so forth. 9 months ago 9 months ago Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
As with most things in life, you should never approach and/or appreciate art – in all its living, breathing, dynamic, glorious, and some perhaps not so glorious manifestations – with a set frame of mind. Art is NOT only meant to enlighten us, help us feel our bond with The Creator (for those who require one), lead us to come closer to our oneness with the Universe, bring happiness and/or pleasure to our lives, set us on the path to enigmatic anomaly, help us march to war or dream of peace, pump us up to cheer our heroes, put the beat in our booddy??s, console us in our times of need, assist some in their egocentric quest to presumptuous cultural know-it-all-ness, serve as the easy meal ticket for the human mediocrity, or even help us transcend the obvious niceties in Being itself. ?? But at times, it is merely intended for setting/creating a mood - a perfect background, if you will, for us to unleash our imagination and better express our own state of consciousness. Not unlike a canvas or a piece of blank paper on which you make your own marks. In other words, art is NOT always destined to be "interpreted" or even "intentionally enjoyed", but at times simply "employed" as the ideal backdrop against which you explore your own being, artistic needs, or otherwise. Many writers, for instance, have a thing about listening to a piece of music while creating their literary works of art; not with the idea of really "listening" to it so much, as to let its befitting vibrational states and concealed inspirational energy create the perfect background mood for what they aim to express. I, for one, can honestly tell you, that in the course of realizing my own (scientific) work, I desperately require the artistic assistance of, and exposure to, all kinds of art, by all kinds of artists from all over the world (way too many of them to enumerate here). On more than a few occasions, for instance, I have found ??my noodles?? lost in museums, movie theaters, public concerts, or listening to marathon sessions of my favorite music (from Classical to Classic Rock to Jazz to Blues to New Age to Heavy Metal to Pop to Regional Music to ????. well you get the picture) at home, all in accords with the shifting requirements of my being. ???? Art is not a limited and static state of mind, a yuppie cultural wet dream, or a German Black Forest Cake recipe to be approached with selectivity, exactness and rigidity, it is rather an integral, fluid-like and ever-changing/evolving component of the overall human experience itself. Feast on all kinds of art and for all kinds of reasons, the more the better - ENJOY! |