--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Patrick Gillam" <jpgillam@> > 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*. >
The contrast would be with whatever darkness is left within the knower. If all of life is bliss, is there non-bliss, non-art? > I don't know > > what her position might be these days. Someone in > > Fairfield could ask her, maybe. Pam Lipman is her name. > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
