I think serious or high art has usually been an affirmation of the things that we have held sacred, which included religion, nature, and human beauty; un-serious or low art also often affirmed the sacred but with less sophistication, which is okay for its purposes. The highest art affirmed Godhood, which was valued higher than human beings---although humans have to be included in the overall affirmation of the sacred since humans also evolve toward Godhood.
Saturday, May 23, 2020
Making the sacred concrete in art (from 2013)
I think serious or high art has usually been an affirmation of the things that we have held sacred, which included religion, nature, and human beauty; un-serious or low art also often affirmed the sacred but with less sophistication, which is okay for its purposes. The highest art affirmed Godhood, which was valued higher than human beings---although humans have to be included in the overall affirmation of the sacred since humans also evolve toward Godhood.
Religious tradition says
that man is best understood as an embodied spirit, whereas the
theological materialism reverses this and says man is best understood
as the embodied material will to life, or Tirips, activating life to
evolve to material and supermaterial Godhood while being shaped by
natural selection and evolution.
Evolutionary realism seems
best to affirm this view of the sacred, evolutionary realism is the
ideal choice in making the sacred concrete. Definitions of human
beauty relate to Godhood as the zenith of beauty. The ancient Greeks
were on the right track in their idealized realistic art creations of
the Gods. Modern art forms have been mainly devoid of the sacred, or
they hold individual hedonistic expression as “sacred;” modern
artists tend to communicate only with each other, or only with
critics hip to their experimentations, as Tom
Wolfe criticized so well. And the public has largely turned their
backs on high art.
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