Noble Dust

By mechanics I just mean the physical workings of the brain, and this sort of thing: That's all, metaphorically, the mechanics of human experience. It...

It's actually Elijah, by Nicholas Roerich. He has his own museum in NYC. I visited and had the place to myself. I saw that one last, as it was on the ...

I guess what i mean is that as your tastes refine, you become pickier. For myself, it's harder and harder to enjoy generic indie bands that have a nic...

I don't have a problem with a given piece of intellectual content being beautiful, I just don't think beauty is inherently apprehended through the int...

The problem is that evolutionary science doesn't even address metaphysical or ontological questions, for instance, let alone aesthetic questions, as p...

I'm still having trouble seeing how beauty is intellectual.

What I was trying to point out is that a sense of being a part of something bigger is something science can only describe the mechanics of; it doesn't...

For clarity, are you still talking about beauty when you say "it requires a grasping"?

If the "something bigger" doesn't actually refer to anything and only serves to prolong life (why exactly?), then isn't that idea essentially a form o...

Isn't it also a fundamental aspect of that transcendence? I agree with everything else you said.

What I was saying is that the socio-economic pressure on art industries changes how the value of art is perceived, which means it doesn't play the sam...

Tragedy can be beautiful because it highlights the human condition; it highlights the gap between beliefs and desires versus reality. But that's beaut...

I agree to an extent, but again, I think it's even more complex than what you're saying. A large part of why there is such a large and ever-increasing...

*Takes a look at his computer wallpaper* : https://uploads1.wikiart.org/images/nicholas-roerich/elijah-the-prophet-1931.jpg

Well, they're certainly connected, but how do they become equivalent? What line of work made this your life's work btw? (edit: did you mean sales?) Wi...

He also said "Art has shown that universal expression can only be created by a real equation of the universal and the individual." :P http://theoria.a...

Hmmm, it could be too simplistic, but wouldn't the converse assumption also be too simplistic? Admittedly, we're making broad strokes here, and we're ...

Ok, no worries, sorry to misinterpret. Well, I work in retail, and we have to play music in the shop for 8 hours every day, 5 days a week. My boss yel...

You keep replacing "work matters" with "please others". They aren't the same. Again, I'm wondering, in general, do you think people want their work to...

On my phone, will respond to everybody soon.

Ok, but do you disagree that in general, people want their work to matter? Is it wrong for a professional artist to want their work to matter?

Are you suggesting "true" art (which you say is still very difficult to create) would be art that is less immersed in the artists culture? And I was n...

Sure. The quote from Mondrian does suggest that he was painting and developing his style before he was introduced to some of his main contemporaries. ...

I took your question as to whether it was my experience to be sarcastic, since none of us were alive in the time period I was referring to. I assumed ...

What I'm trying to point out is the quality of the experience of art in the internet age, vs. past ages. That was pretty explicit in my OP.

Do you disagree with the statement you quoted?

Do you disagree?

Everyone needs to feel like their work matters in some way. Someone endeavoring to become a full time artist wants to feel like their work matters, an...

Right, I remember the one at the University that my dad worked at. It seemed awesome. Libraries for literature have been around forever, which is grea...

Maybe you should just not read any more of his posts in this thread. >:O

:s What is with this "I won't be responding" thing these days? Is Thanatos/Harris really having that negative of an effect here?

Did you read the OP?

I agree.

So you don't think the ubiquity of art in the internet age changes anything about our consumption and experience of art? Sorry, you're right, it does.

True; wise words. I disagree; it's natural to want to share art. The audience is something like 50% of the work, in my estimation. Artists like myself...

But I'm arguing that the social and psychological pressures of a globalized world do affect our ability to be creative. The art world is still run by ...

How do you know that? How are you a person "irrespective of social class"? I didn't mean that; I was referring to "unapproachable contemporary classic...

Can you back this up? Atonality, the evolution of the whole tone scale, on the one hand, and the focus of the tonic and using only chords that relate ...

I disagree; the lines are more blurred but only because there's so much more art that exists in the middle somewhere. But unapproachable contemporary ...

Socially, they exist in two different worlds. But they absolutely influence one another. I'm still not sure how this relates to the questions I'm aski...

Right, so that's the difference between "folk" art and "high" art. Maybe it's an unfortunate distinction, but my OP here is essentially about high art...

Sure, can you enumerate further? I gave a few specific examples from personal accounts of people from those times. Maybe you can offer counter example...

It looks like you're missing the forest for the trees here, with regards to the questions I'm asking. I'm relating the state of the experience of art ...

This is exactly the problem. "Rules".

That's the irony of the world we live in. It's wrong for men to force those characteristics on women; but it's liberating for women to force those cha...

Do you disagree that women have lower testosterone levels?

This is a statement about his opinion on the state of submissiveness in the sexes. It's not specifically sexist. Same No mention of gender Vague; not ...

But yes, that is sexist, and I'm surprised to find that Agustino said that. but it's not a direct quote, so I would appreciate a proper quote so as to...

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But, like all of us, your username is now part and parcel to how we all perceive you. We don't perceive you as a bitter crank; it's rather that there'...