(July 26, 2015 at 9:59 am)Nestor Wrote: What do you mean by emotional truth?
I'm not sure, really. I've heard the term bandied before and wanted to know what you think of it. I think it's sometimes used as a code word for "belief" in order to avoid the obvious subjective implications of the latter, but at the same time, I do myself feel that some things are true, yet I'm unable to express them coherently.
(July 26, 2015 at 9:59 am)Nestor Wrote: If by aesthetic truth, you mean something like, "Jackson Pollock's 'Number 11, 1952' [1] is more beautiful than anything a child could do [2]," or, "Leonardo da Vinci's 'Virgin of the Rocks' [3] is more aesthetically pleasing than Andres Serrano's 'Piss Christ' [4]," and that these statements cannot be objectively true or false, I'm not so sure I agree. It seems objectively true that some art possesses the ability to move us - most people, or those with exquisite knowledge about art - by what we call beauty more than others.
I generally agree with this myself, and was again simply soliciting your opinion; although I think beauty is not the raison d'etre of art as much as conveying the artist's vision is the task of the artwork. That obviously isn't always beauty, at least in the colloquial sense of the word. Is there a philosophic sense I'm unaware of?
