All representations of reality are artificial in nature, whether they express concrete objects or abstractions.
What the art reveals may be fact or fancy; one may be artfully disguised as the other.
To be deceived by a false perception of idea or event is utterly different from being briefly fooled by a recorded sound or the effect of a trompe l'oeil illusion. The latter are simply auditory and visual; the former may prove to contain the genesis of fatal errors in judgement.
For the composer, it is the difference between glamorizing the base, absurd, or benighted, and imparting the essence of the real.
What the art reveals may be fact or fancy; one may be artfully disguised as the other.
To be deceived by a false perception of idea or event is utterly different from being briefly fooled by a recorded sound or the effect of a trompe l'oeil illusion. The latter are simply auditory and visual; the former may prove to contain the genesis of fatal errors in judgement.
For the composer, it is the difference between glamorizing the base, absurd, or benighted, and imparting the essence of the real.
