by nomad » May 28th, 2007, 4:49 pm
I was thinking about the contrast between my artistic endeavors and academic pursuits, and came up with the following:
<<When you present art, the point is to share. You can play music or paint or write for its own sake or for your own enjoyment. But if you put it before others, it is an invitation to them to join you and participate. The audience is invited to be part of the process. Good art can carry a message, but it cannot lecture. It must always be generous, always vulnerable. It is essentially an offering. If artists have a reputation for being sensitive, it is probably because every artist knows what it feels like to be Cain.>>
Seems like every once in a while someone starts a thread asking why Christian film/contemporary music isn't very good. That is, of course, a broad generalization and one can easily find exemptions. And a fair amount of secular film and music isn't all that great either. But I'm wondering, if what I've said above has any validity, is there an inherent tension between artistic creation and an attempt to "tell" people the truth, whether that truth is religious or political? That would explain why I've also seen so much bad politically-driven art.
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