Art

[diesel]

Expression of mental illness or the extension of consciousness?

[Undermind]

Can't it be both?

[Phenoptosis]

We should make a conscious to avoid false dichotomies.

[indjaseemun]

It's bad when the word Art is understood as a bunch of stuff scattered in a room with "artful" stuff. Or street performance. Not that there is not art involved in those, but think Martial Arts and get a whole new meaning of the word Art. When properly done I think it can be divine even, but not to be taken as an end in itself.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UG1B1aU3SLU/T2FgbEbWgYI/AAAAAAAAKkE/HHL1OoOz-iI/s1600/Icon+of+Christ+the+Bridegroom,+sitting+above+the+star+at+Golgotha+in+the+Church+of+the+Holy+Sepulchre,+Jerusalem.jpg

http://papaherman.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/mother-of-god-softening-of-evil-hearts-2-tatiana-vodicheva.jpg

To give a majestic example of true Art, when you not think of a bunch of paint scattered but of real things... Religious Art. Religious Art is just too true to be ignored.

[Everdarkgreen]

True art!

[diesel]

The world of art has turned into an ego masturbatorium.