Is an aesthetic rush stronger -- as a formal presentation seems to look *more*
like other things?
Or, if one feels puzzlement at what "those other things" might be -- can
there be any aesthetic rush at all?
There certainly are some people who love to be puzzled -- or race their minds
through all the possible suggestions: "Do you see yonder cloud that's almost
in shape of a camel?"
But usually, as Aristotle has noted, an audience enjoys an imitation --
and don't we call something "abstract art" when we don't think an imitation is
occurring because we have no idea what is being imitated?
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"I think the aesthetic rush one gets from "abstraction"
is the relation between unique formal presentation and
its looking like other things or evoking unique ways
to re-imagine other things. It relies on the
paradoxical nature of metaphor....suggesting something
to be "as if" something it is not."
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