But this is most certainly not all from the perspective of the audience. For the perspective of the creator of art, this makes sense — Agustino
What effect does art have on the soul? They aren't creating new being. So what enthralls them about art? — Agustino
Why did cave men paint, and other cave men regard and care for their paintings? — Agustino
My apologies — Bitter Crank
there are more people producing than in previous times, and with less elite control over what gets done. — Bitter Crank
That's just it, beginning with the assumption that it needs an evolutionary reason to arise is a fallacy. — Noble Dust
Have you studied much art? — Noble Dust
So yes, I've studied a lot of art. — Terrapin Station
If it is inauthentically driven by ambition, money, the desire for fame, then it will be tainted by mediocrity, and lessened by submitting itself to a market. — John
Have you studied much art? — Noble Dust
I was using "creative act" in a broader sense than you, it seems, to include any act of 'art-making'; whether it be writing a poem, painting, drawing, composing music, and so on. — John
So, that I would say the creative act is authentic is perhaps equivalent to your saying it is a creative act at all. — John
But I don't draw a necessary distinction between religious art and secular art. They are both equally spiritual, when authentic, in my view, just in different ways. I'm not sure if you draw that distinction yourself. — John
Well, I'm also using it to at least include those things. lol. I'm a little bit confused. — Noble Dust
I think the latter is what you mean by 'creative act' and that is what I would refer to as 'authentic creative act'. — John
What gives art (literature, poetry, religious texts, visual art, music, etc.) its power over the human soul? Clearly, art never helped man to survive, except in a very abstract kind of way. It's more likely that we live in order to create art, rather than create art in order to live. So why do we create art, and why do we enjoy art? — Agustino
Show me an artist with completely pure motives and I'll believe it. Motives are a spectrum, not a binary "this or that". — Noble Dust
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