On 27/08/2009 02:38, "Frances Kelly" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Frances to Armando... > In the production of art, it would be my feeling that the somatic > material act of making it likely motivates the cerebric mental > act to adapt somewhat most of the time. In the sphere of say > visual art, the graphic pictural act or the plastic sculptural > act will stimulate the rational act of planning and predicting > the work to alter or change the expectations of mind perhaps half > the time, before the artist finally settles or completes or > finishes the work. It is rare that the material graphic or > plastic act will merely report on the mental or rational act > somewhat precisely as designed in the mind. The artistic act in > its stuff and form will have the power to feed back to the mind > unexpected surprises that are pleasurable or joyful or admirable. > In the consumption of art, any thinking or knowing or reasoning > about it is another logical aspect of aesthetic art altogether. I agree with what you have very clearly written above; the process of making art involves an intention and an interactive feedback system that incurs modifications, serendipitous and others, as the art unfolds, but that cannot be considered compatible with what follows: > In any event, the work of art as found or made is objectively > independent of the subjective mind, because it is the external > work or object that is art or nice and not the internal sense of > it. Found in the sense of suddenly come upon, no, found in the sense of discovery through seeking and responding, yes. Independent of the subjective mind, no interactive with the mind as the mind thinks through a process towards something evaluated as art; a random feedback system and outcome is not being proposed above, and would not describe what occurs either. Curiously, Toodle-pip, Allan. -- http://braesidecottage-garden-music.blogspot.com/
