Philosophy and the Beauty of Art and why the world needs such artwork

[CaptainAmerica]

I found this documentary completely refreshing . To me this makes a lot of sense.

 

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Thanks for posting this, I'll watch it sometime this week.

I do think that being surrounded by beauty is beneficial and ugliness detrimental. It can be very subtle and unconscious, but it can do everything from influence your mood to color your outlook on life.

 

[CaptainAmerica]

Thanks for posting this, I'll watch it sometime this week.

I do think that being surrounded by beauty is beneficial and ugliness detrimental. It can be very subtle and unconscious, but it can do everything from influence your mood to color your outlook on life.

I found this documentary fascinating because it is almost like self defeat that artists would even consider putting a toilet up on a wall as a piece of art because it isn't as if they actually created something...they only placed an idea in place of what should be art.

 

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That was an interesting piece, although before watching it I was assuming it would go in a different direction.

It also seems like some type of game amongst artists to see how much BS they can get away with. You know there are some "jock sniffers", for lack of a better term, who would go to an art exhibit and ooh and ahh over a urinal, messy bed, or can of shit. They'll pontificate on how deep the meaning of the work is, how profound. All the while there must be at least a few artists laughing that they got the stupid sheep to actually accept this garbage as art.

The placement of an idea suprlanting the art itself was quite interesting. I'd probably need more time to mull that over, but that does tie in literature quite strongly into the arts since writing is nothing but placing ideas. Is a description of a beautiful scene then equivalent to a painting of one?