"And so eventually, the simple appearing of beauty is [...] but only a shadow.
[...] "And so, natural difference survives the terrible equalization that is democracy."
This is illustrated hilariously, gruesomely well in a recent film called 'Triangle of Sadness.' Highly recommended.. It appears very shallow to begin with but descends, and describes this idea magnificently by the end.
I could spoil it to make a clearer argument, but won't in case anyone needs a good film. I saw it over a month ago and still flash back to it every few days for its relevant insights.
"The Idea of Beauty does not explain how the beautiful work of art comes to be."
Ananda Coomaraswamy asserted artists were virtually a protected species in India once, by those with rasa or 'taste'; an artist would be sponsored by such a rasa'd man. The Idea of beauty existed in the mind (of the man with rasa/taste) who recognised beauty flowing through the artist from a transcendent principle. In a religious sense one could say the artist is being used as God's medium, and the artwork is the filtered result of the life of the artist. The man with rasa wasn't able to use the Idea as it stood within himself, but was able to see it channeled through the artist.
Perhaps the man with rasa could answer “What type of life leads to the creation of beauty?” by funding the lifestyle of the artist because an artist can't create if they are constantly battling to survive, which is also the most significant problem with the west, according to Coomaraswamy. What happened to great art? Survival.
Modern art is a form of money laundering these days...
"And so eventually, the simple appearing of beauty is [...] but only a shadow.
[...] "And so, natural difference survives the terrible equalization that is democracy."
This is illustrated hilariously, gruesomely well in a recent film called 'Triangle of Sadness.' Highly recommended.. It appears very shallow to begin with but descends, and describes this idea magnificently by the end.
I could spoil it to make a clearer argument, but won't in case anyone needs a good film. I saw it over a month ago and still flash back to it every few days for its relevant insights.
"The Idea of Beauty does not explain how the beautiful work of art comes to be."
Ananda Coomaraswamy asserted artists were virtually a protected species in India once, by those with rasa or 'taste'; an artist would be sponsored by such a rasa'd man. The Idea of beauty existed in the mind (of the man with rasa/taste) who recognised beauty flowing through the artist from a transcendent principle. In a religious sense one could say the artist is being used as God's medium, and the artwork is the filtered result of the life of the artist. The man with rasa wasn't able to use the Idea as it stood within himself, but was able to see it channeled through the artist.
Perhaps the man with rasa could answer “What type of life leads to the creation of beauty?” by funding the lifestyle of the artist because an artist can't create if they are constantly battling to survive, which is also the most significant problem with the west, according to Coomaraswamy. What happened to great art? Survival.
Modern art is a form of money laundering these days...