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- Subject: Re: Singularity (Gordon's idea)
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- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 11:42:33 CST
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- nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson) writes:
- > I complained that, while this may be, the problem with
- > "fictional truths" is that there's no useful way to talk
- > about them, anaylze them, or assess them. The truth in
- > a work of art is purely subjective precisely because art
- > lacks the intellectual discipline that makes science work.
- > It provides no means to step outside of our own personal
- > experience of it. Art offers no means to reach closure.
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- art is subjective not because it lacks intellectual discipline, but
- because its all from one persons point of view. (excepting of course the
- multipersonality disorder victims) truth is subjectiv no matter where it
- is found, because it is true only to that particular person and therefor
- also based on one persons point of view. art takes a great deal of
- concentration. to sculpt something you mist have absolute tunnel vision
- and be able to exclude EVERYTHING but the sculpture. it allows not only
- for a person to step outside of personal experience, but to experience
- what another person is feeling, thinking, and how they perceive reality.
- try looking at a good painting sometime. if youre in the same frame of
- mind as that person, you understand EVERYTHING that they have put up
- there on canvas. it isnt a picture, but a visual story. usually, however,
- you dont come across art that good, because as ayn rand's philosophies
- intended you to realize, good art is not welcomed. makes the other guys
- look bad.
- anyway, the whole point of art that is done because it MUST be
- done is that it takes the unspoken things of a human and crystallizes
- them in a display for people to see. by the unspoken i mean feelings that
- have no adjectives and colors that have not yet been named. to describe a
- feeling is much different than if you were to paint it. and theyre just
- as hard, but art is more expressive.
- art, i suppose, is the true "science" of emotion. and its just
- as hard to capture as an emotion...well..if you didnt understand me, you
- probably dont understand art, either...so..just ignore me, please..
-
- squid
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