I define traditional great
art as the affirmation of the sacred, and modern art as the denial of
the sacred. We could also say that high comedy is the denigration of
the noble, and low comedy is the denigration of the ignoble.
Raymond Cattell wrote
about how society must have skill in distinguishing between creative
revolutionary originality and purely destructive revolutionary
hubris. The survival of society can be seen in how well this is
measured. This applies to art too.
T. S. Eliot more or less
said that before we can define art, education or politics we need to
answer the questions “what is man?,” and “what is man for?.”
I give the answer that we are here to evolve to Godhood, and all
things follow after that.
Modern art has been a big
debauched pause in the history of art. I prefer “Evolutionary
Realism” in art, which relates to the realism of traditional art,
along with evolution of the new, potentially all the way to Godhood.
Now that is art philosophy.
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