Hello all,
Something about art and Quality has troubled me a bit for some time. I am an
artist of sorts; visual arts mostly, but i have some experience with music
also. What bothers me is that when I work on a piece i often keep certain
techniques and devices in mind. (There are many well known artistic devices
that were developed in the Rennaissance). I am not implying that all artists
always base artwork from devices, but (for me at least) the devices do work
and they do look "good". But all such devices -- certain "rules of
composition" in an art piece and certain rules of harmony in music pieces--
are all static devices. "Itsy bitsy rules for itsy bitsy people" is what
Pirsig referred to rhetorical devices in ZAMM. Shouldn't the process of
creating art be inspiration, not just collecting artistic devices?
I think the answer is that no artwork is one-hundred percent
Quality-inspired. There is no perfect piece of art. Some artwork is more
inspirated than other art. I think writer JRR Tolkien best explains the
nature of Quality and how it inspires Man's art.
"Man, Sub-creator, the refracted Light
through whom is splintered from a single White
to many hues, and endlessly combined
in living shapes that move from mind to mind. "
Values are the many hues of splintered light. Tolkien was pointing to God
when he said Light, and in the sense that he meant Quality, he was right.
Take care of your goodness,
Lee
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