pardon me, sir

[wordsofyoureyes]

I was doing my vocabulary homework and this is what I came upon:

Surrealistic - stressing imagery and the subconscious and sometimes distorting ordinary ideas in order to arrive at artistic truths I'm sorry, but can someone please tell me what the HELL an artistic truth is? Are the personal belief conclusions of artists somehow different from

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[spunky1042]

are you really this flustered over the phrasing of a vocabulary word's definition?

[dirtyrob666]

An artistic truth is the academic world's way of teling you that you have no soul and that you are only a tool in the system.

The following is a waste of your time:

[nltl119]

Jeez, Justine, sometimes I think you actually look forward to TOK

I actually like how they defined it

[_comeondieyoung]

This definition kind of sounds like the person wants to defend the validity of surrealism, or a case of surrealism...

I think by using the words "artistic truth" it is trying to say that surrealism isn't necessarily just the OPPOSITE of reality, but rather creates its OWN reality that expresses an actual idea or an actual feeling. that it isn't completely bogus just because it doesn't conform to common standards. it still has a meaning and a purpose, but the process of arriving at that purpose was a-typical.

[bladestogether]

Your all right, your all wrong. Is Theory of Knowledge and IB thing? I've never heard of it, so i assume so.

[wordsofyoureyes]

first of all, you'RE

second,... joey you are my hero and damn TOK is going to be amusing haha
only ill retract that statement at 2:00 a.m. by aout April I'm sure

[nltl119]

first of all, aBout...haha, just kidding

and I like the "damn TOK" part