Without reasoned and desirable limits, meaning is obscured, then extinguished by the absurd.
The space between one extreme and the next appears empty; close attention dissipates, drawn only to the excessive. Depth of feeling is not called upon, and critical discernment declines. If noise does not dominate experience there is apparent silence. Yet the mind passively demands to be filled.
Art is not intended to serve as a replacement for moral reason and spiritual emptiness. Still, art can, and often does, offer perspectives in sharp contrast to those that are culturally stagnant, banal and enervating. And while such artistic works may be delineated within limits emphasizing subtlety and grace of expression, for example, they are by no means intellectually and existentially confining.
The space between one extreme and the next appears empty; close attention dissipates, drawn only to the excessive. Depth of feeling is not called upon, and critical discernment declines. If noise does not dominate experience there is apparent silence. Yet the mind passively demands to be filled.
Art is not intended to serve as a replacement for moral reason and spiritual emptiness. Still, art can, and often does, offer perspectives in sharp contrast to those that are culturally stagnant, banal and enervating. And while such artistic works may be delineated within limits emphasizing subtlety and grace of expression, for example, they are by no means intellectually and existentially confining.
