Comments on: Making Art Enjoyable http://www.spreadinghappiness.org/2010/02/making-art-enjoyable/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:58:38 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Soraya http://www.spreadinghappiness.org/2010/02/making-art-enjoyable/comment-page-1/#comment-514 Soraya Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:33:18 +0000 http://www.spreadinghappiness.org/?p=548#comment-514 Hi Nick, I enjoyed this post very much, too. I would like to list another dimension, which makes any form of art not only enjoyable, but also extremely valuable for the spectator, listener or reader. The object of art, once it's finished, usually does not change over the years; however, the person who is interpretating while gazing at a sculpture, listening to a piece of music or reading a play/novel, does sometimes undergo crucial changes during a timespan of ten or twenty years. Therefore, in my opinion, it is always worthwhile coming back to certain objects and re-discovering them after a certain period of time. Since your experience has altered, your viewpoint/ interpretation will most likely not be the same either compared to the moment you first discovered the painting, piece of music or book. Certain features which you hadn't noticed before, might catch your attention right away, or some passages suddenly become meaningful. I guess Nick, you were referring to that with your comment about elderly people and their ability to connect to a variety of depicted scenes. My claim would be nevertheless, that art is for people at every age, they only need to be introduced to it the right way -for example via this post :) Hi Nick,
I enjoyed this post very much, too. I would like to list another dimension,
which makes any form of art not only enjoyable, but also extremely valuable for the spectator, listener or reader.
The object of art, once it’s finished, usually does not change over the years; however, the person who is interpretating while gazing at a sculpture, listening to a piece of music or reading a play/novel, does sometimes undergo crucial changes during a timespan of ten or twenty years. Therefore, in my opinion, it is always worthwhile coming back to certain objects and re-discovering them after a certain period of time. Since your experience has altered, your viewpoint/ interpretation will most likely not be the same either compared to the moment you first discovered the painting, piece of music or book. Certain features which you hadn’t noticed before, might catch your attention right away, or some passages suddenly become meaningful. I guess Nick, you were referring to that with your comment about elderly people and their ability to connect to a variety of depicted scenes. My claim would be nevertheless, that art is for people at every age, they only need to be introduced to it the right way -for example via this post :)

]]> By: Nick http://www.spreadinghappiness.org/2010/02/making-art-enjoyable/comment-page-1/#comment-511 Nick Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:44:56 +0000 http://www.spreadinghappiness.org/?p=548#comment-511 Hi Tom, great, thank you very much for pointing to this! Hi Tom, great, thank you very much for pointing to this!

]]> By: Tom http://www.spreadinghappiness.org/2010/02/making-art-enjoyable/comment-page-1/#comment-480 Tom Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:35:01 +0000 http://www.spreadinghappiness.org/?p=548#comment-480 Great post! Since you have difficulty in differentiating between two 'different forms of beauty' and are also interested in Romanticism, perhaps this triggers off some more thoughts, in case you have not come across it so far: "the beautiful and the sublime"; for a quick first glance, see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublime_(philosophy) Great post! Since you have difficulty in differentiating between two ‘different forms of beauty’ and are also interested in Romanticism, perhaps this triggers off some more thoughts, in case you have not come across it so far:
“the beautiful and the sublime”; for a quick first glance, see also:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublime_(philosophy)

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