Lee,
I enjoyed your post on art. I believe that all artists, no matter how
revolutionary their work, still employ certain learned techniques or
patterns when composing their opuses. However I would argue that this is not
an indication that all art is less than perfect. I believe that much art is,
by nature, perfect and that the use of familiar patterns to create it
provides recognizable territory against which the new and dynamic can be
contrasted. It is the ability to see, hear or feel what is dynamic that
makes great art exciting. All change (dynamic quality) requires a point of
reference or it doesn't exist.
Regards,
The Bard
----- Original Message -----
From: Lee Tessler <dunadan11@yahoo.com>
To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 7:29 PM
Subject: Re: MD On Art
> 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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