RE: Atheism in art
August 6, 2018 at 11:39 am
(This post was last modified: August 6, 2018 at 11:40 am by Simon Moon.)
(August 6, 2018 at 5:11 am)Graufreud Wrote: Religion inspired Goethe and Bulgakov, Titian and Caravaggio, Bach and Mozart
any significant work of art inspired by atheism? I can't think of any
It seems hard to be inspired by a disbelief in an unsupported claim.
But, there are plenty of atheist artists.
Musicians :
Brian Eno - electronic music pioneer
Michael Åkerfeldt - guitarist and composer (prog metal band Opeth)
Georges Bizet (French classical composer Carmen)
Bjork - very creative singer/composer
David Gilmour - guitarist Ping Floyd
Bela Bartok
Leoš Janáček - Czech classical composer
Geddy Lee - bassist and lead singer Rush
Randy Newman - singer/songwriter
Sergei Prokofiev - Russian classical composer
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Russian classical composer
Camille Saint-Saëns - French classical composer
Dmitri Shostakovich - Russian composer
Frank Zappa - rock guitarist, composer,
Artists:
Henri Matisse
Picasso
Mark Rothko
Frank Loyd Wright
Marcel Duchamp
Claude Monet
Authors:
James Baldwin
Tariq Ali
Bertolt Brecht
André Breton
Charles Bukowski
Albert Camus
Anton Chekhov
Franz Kafka
Sinclair Lewis
Pablo Neruda
Joyce Carol Oates
Sarah Vowell
H.G. Wells
This list is just the tip of the iceberg. I am sure you will see that it is a pretty impressive list. Many of those artists, authors and musician are easily in the same class as the ones you mention.
Again, I am not sure it can be said that these artists were "inspired by atheism", per se.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
