--- In [email protected], "Patrick Gillam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In [email protected], "Patrick Gillam" 
<jpgillam@> 
> > wrote:
> > <snip>
> > > The arts are an especially rich source of sweet suffering. Or 
> > > maybe I'm listening to too much opera, and seeing too 
> > > many heavy movies. But artists seem to revel in mixing beauty
> > > and pain. I figured that was not just an artist's trick, but
> > > a reflection of life.
> > 
> > Something I've always wondered about: What happens to 
> > art in a (hypothetical) Age of Enlightenment?
> > 
> > Can you take pain and suffering and struggle out of
> > the mixture and have art just be about joy?
> 
> I had an artist friend from my MIU days who insisted
> that artists should only bring light, yeah.

Bring light, fine...much of art does that anyway.
But only *by contrast*.

 I don't know 
> what her position might be these days. Someone in
> Fairfield could ask her, maybe. Pam Lipman is her name.
>






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