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Sorry but I think Michaelangelo and Leonardo knew much more about art than you.
by voldacar 3y ago
Sorry but I think Michaelangelo and Leonardo knew much more about art than you.
- creer 3y agoFor your definition of "art", most likely yes.
- david927 3y agoThe interesting thing is that music composers don't do this. They know music theory. They don't hit a bassoon with a tennis racquet and say, "Your definition of music may vary."
- creer 3y agoThe dancer in Stomp may or may not know music theory. And analogies may or may not be useful. I will argue or grant that most visual artists do learn to see - even though they very much do not all see the same thing because seeing is also subject to preferences and intellectual choices. Visual arts have certainly gone far and wide. For much of it, even calling it "visual" is a stretch. Sure.
- YeGoblynQueenne 3y agoDancers aren't normally trained in music theory. Percussionists are but, having studied modern drums for five years at a conservatory, I can tell you with some confidence that most drummers don't know music theory, because they don't really need it. Because most of music theory has nothing to do with percussions. Why do I need to know harmony to play the drums? So, bad example. A better example would be the intonarumori by Luigi Russolo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intonarumori https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intonarumori But the truth is that this kind of wild experimentation with the limits of musicality has never caught up in the same way as modern art has. There is possibly a reason for that. I suspect that it's far easier to ignore something Duchamp's fountain than Russolo's instruments... just because the latter make noise and you can't stop hearing it unless you run away. Btw, I heard some recordings of the intonarumori at a modern art museum in Switzerland, and I thought they were actually ... pleasant? In some sense. But then I find Cannibal Corpse pleasant so I probably have uncommon tastes (though not rare).
- archagon 3y agoJohn Cage certainly did.
- solomonb 3y agoAnd you speak for Michaelangelo and Leonardo?
- david927 3y agoDo people really believe there are no curators of, say, the Uffizi and the Louvre? Do people think that we don't generally agree on levels of accomplishment and mastery -- that when you go to the Prado, it's not just a random selection?
- solomonb 3y agoAmazing straw man. I said nothing of curation, mastery, or art history in general. My comment was challenging the parent poster's assumed knowledge of the opinions of old masters.