• spacesweedkid27 @lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Hmm I think I have to disagree to the definition of poetry, because I think art in any form can also teach somebody something.

    Art is always a mirror: In seeing how you react to art, you learn about yourself.

    For example I think for me I really valued for example the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion and the manga Berserk, because both talk a lot about themes I had to struggle a lot with in my life until now.

    But I think that this aspect of art does not have to be in every art there is. Impressionist paintings for example often don’t have any lesson to tell but, like any art, tell a story about some emotion and in Impressionism, a moment and you feel that moment.

    I would argue that things that shock yourself are more likely to induce this self reflection, which is of course natural in a sense, because there is no obvious point about thinking about yourself, when you enjoy art, because you just want to enjoy it and not think about it and reflect why you thought about it like you did.

    Interestingy I had a conversation about a hard question with somebody recently: What makes art good? I argued that for myself anything that changes me or makes me feel a lot is good art and they argued that the more art makes you think about yourself, the better it is. So to speak I had a more consumeristic view, and they an intellectual view.

    But I think that both opinions are in a way what I truly love about art: It makes me think and reflect. By either being shocked and processing this experience or by being actively motivated to think. Neon Genesis Evangelion and Berserk did both of these things for me.

    In summary: I again rambled about something not at all relevant to this post, but I wanted to say it.