RE: Has art jumped the shark after WWI?
January 6, 2015 at 12:23 pm
(This post was last modified: January 6, 2015 at 12:23 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(January 5, 2015 at 8:27 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: The ones I've always cherished the most were the ones that shaped sadness into something sublime. Happiness is good, but everyone wants to share in your happiness. Grief is such a private place...pouring it out and shaping it into something for others to see...it's terrifying and has the potential to be appreciated by a smaller but much more in-tune set of individuals.
There are technical mistakes and theoretical jumps all over this -- but it is art, to me, because speaks to some really dark days I've lived, and lived through. Even without words, I know what the hell this song means.