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Sept 8, 2012 3:57:02 GMT 10
Post by Sambrina on Sept 8, 2012 3:57:02 GMT 10
Would be interesting to know different views on this! Without civilization would art be necessary? Something I am curious about and have tried to discuss in Art class. How important is art in culture? Does art define culture? Is our artistic skills dwindling due to modern art? It seems now the skill and thought doesn't seem important, that is maybe what I perceive. Maybe I am wrong, please discuss if you feel it is something worthy of your time I know William Blake challenged the "old school" art societies but he still had a wonderful artistic skill full of meaning and allure. Blessings Ayshia Attachments:
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Sept 8, 2012 9:48:19 GMT 10
Post by Tamrin on Sept 8, 2012 9:48:19 GMT 10
I believe art can challenge and expand the boundaries of what we call civilization. Art can make clear the way before we have words or clear concepts to otherwise express what we feel and need to express. In all genres there can be great art. Isaac Newton, by William Blake
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Post by Sambrina on Sept 9, 2012 20:05:05 GMT 10
Wonderful, so maybe Art and Mathematics could be the languages of the universe? as primitive men created art in order to communicate their ways of life. Maybe art and Mathematics are not so different as they both require creativity and structure...
Blessings
Ayshia
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Sept 9, 2012 20:44:56 GMT 10
Post by Tamrin on Sept 9, 2012 20:44:56 GMT 10
Art complements mathematics and vice versa.
To Pythagoras is attributed the saying, "All things are numbers." However this abstraction does not quite capture the continuum of reality.
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Sept 9, 2012 21:19:13 GMT 10
Post by Tamrin on Sept 9, 2012 21:19:13 GMT 10
Did Blake not approve of Newton? I had read it somewhere briefly before. In "Jerusalem," Blake wrote: I turn my eyes to the Schools & Universities of Europe And there behold the Loom of Locke whose Woof rages dire Washd by the Water-wheels of Newton. black the cloth In heavy wreathes folds over every Nation; cruel Works Of many Wheels I view, wheel without wheel, with cogs tyrannic Moving by compulsion each other: not as those in Eden: which Wheel within Wheel in freedom revolve in harmony & peace
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Sept 9, 2012 21:24:25 GMT 10
Post by Sambrina on Sept 9, 2012 21:24:25 GMT 10
A beautiful poem, Blake was full of expression I guess that is why I respect him so but at the end of the day we need them both maths and art they have both created civilization without them we couldn't build and without art we couldn't feel or express...art expresses what maths cannot and maths build what art cannot.
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