T here are many things that we call “art”: cave paintings, a child's drawing, Greek sculpture, Shakespeare's plays, adolescent love poetry, and (in the twentieth century) Carl André's bricks, or the Queen in her carriage attending Royal Ascot horse racing (prestgious Turner Prize)
Not everything called “art” deserves the name, however, because not everything so called does what true art is meant to do: namely, give sensuous expression to free spirit and thereby create works of beauty.The work of idealization in Art is undertaken not (like modern fashion photography) to provide an escape from life into a world of fantasy, but to enable us to see our freedom more clearly.
Idealization is undertaken, therefore, in the interests of a clearer revelation of the true character of humanity (and of the divine).
The paradox is that art communicates truth through idealized images of human beings (and indeed—in painting—through the illusion of external reality).
Not everything called “art” deserves the name, however, because not everything so called does what true art is meant to do: namely, give sensuous expression to free spirit and thereby create works of beauty.The work of idealization in Art is undertaken not (like modern fashion photography) to provide an escape from life into a world of fantasy, but to enable us to see our freedom more clearly.
Idealization is undertaken, therefore, in the interests of a clearer revelation of the true character of humanity (and of the divine).
The paradox is that art communicates truth through idealized images of human beings (and indeed—in painting—through the illusion of external reality).
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