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Tada!

Jan 17, 2006 22:19

I am going to take it upon myself to write the first Post With Substance. *chews fingernails nervously* As per the rules (see the user info page if you missed them [they're really not overly restrictive, I promise]), my thoughts are going under an lj-cut. I'm abbreviating The Man Who Was Thursday as TMWWT, because that just makes sense, and I'm ( Read more... )

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Art Disorder ;) belovedwarrior January 18 2006, 20:40:22 UTC

You have certainly appealed to a moderate's heart!

Dictionary.com defines art as "The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colors, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the sense of beauty."

Syme argues that it is in the order we find art and Gregory argues for the chaos and I agree that they are both wrong. It is in the fine balance between the two, really. Furthermore, there is something artistic about a paradox.

Art does come from order but has a twist of of grandeur (chaos?). Something greater to set it apart from the mundane.

Heh. But I don't think an anarchist is an artist. Perhaps both prefer a great moment to everything but for very different reasons and in very different contexts. I really cannot say too much more because I am neither anarchist nor artist and cannot accurately pinpoint either one. :S

Re: Art Disorder ;) _haydee_ January 20 2006, 21:43:47 UTC

And of course I wouldn't even think of looking the word up in the dictionary, ha. I think I agree with the objective dictionary and say that order is more essential... or something.

But no, anarchy is not art in itself.

belovedwarrior January 18 2006, 20:49:36 UTC

The second quote, at times, seems a matter of semantics.. but I know there is more to it than that. How does one say, "The world is round" and mean it? I do understand the 'thank you' reference as we do say pleasantries that we never really mean. When asking "How are you?" in a greeting, very rarely to people actually intend to hear how the person is other than a quick little, "Fine. Good. How are you?"

What determines whether you 'mean' something or not, if not the truthness of it? Is it purely the amount of feeling and emotion that one puts into it?

On the chaos or the order of Art... esteliwyn January 29 2006, 20:14:15 UTC

Just want to say, firstly, that I'm so glad we're discussing this book... and so glad that I found my way here. I've just read the first chapter, and it's quite strange and fascinating all at once. Chesterton is so curious ( ... )

Re: On the chaos or the order of Art... esteliwyn January 29 2006, 20:15:02 UTC

(Post continued; seems I exceeded the character limit, eep.)

Admittedly I've had to read those quotes (and the writing from which they came) over and over to make sense of it; I realize I am very much a child of the world of 'towering materialism which dominates the modern mind' when it comes to the supposition that repetition inevitably becomes boring. Well, in fact, it does play out that way for us, but if, like Chesterton says, the ideal is that one thing could be so fascinating and could bring so much joy as to make us happy doing it forever, then we have some idea of God's joy in the order of the universe ( ... )

Re: On the chaos or the order of Art... israfael February 6 2006, 22:03:50 UTC

As I see it art is about the harnessing of chaos, like the lampost illuminating the tree. Chaos can be everything from your own latent talent to draw to the potential that nature has to create, without order in their systems there is nothing beautiful and nothing which makes sense. You could be the most talented poet the world had ever seen but the random arrangement of words on a page will not show this nor a great a poem nor will scribbling like a toddler on a page produce a Da Vinci ( ... )