tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1656000427056815096.post2200344036975763127..comments2023-05-31T06:11:56.628-04:00Comments on xyjazz: Resistance is Futile!Josh Ragerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14145305239438030807noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1656000427056815096.post-33795864980419920812009-09-22T22:49:11.545-04:002009-09-22T22:49:11.545-04:00I think this also applies to other expressive arts...I think this also applies to other expressive arts. It's easy to confuse "raw" expression with genuine creativity. I know people who write free verse poetry because they think that rhyme and meter have been "overcome" by creative artists who destroyed their repressive bonds. However their poetry comes across as dead and intellectual and they think that that's a new "style" instead of merely bad poetry. The same is true for abstract painting. Some abstract paintings hold me spell-bound for hours, but some cannot hold my attention for more than a few seconds.<br />The difference is mastery of form, not lack of it. Without the dynamic dance of form and content, content is flacid and self-absorbed and needs to be propped up by intellect and/or cliches that communicate at the superficial level of consensus or commonly shared experience. When there is personal push and pull against the form, the artist can engage in genuine creativity which is always a unique relationship between a particular human being and . . .truth?, beauty?, the cosmos?,God?, perhaps just the angels?Johnny Gowanushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11877063729267973110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1656000427056815096.post-50550995862878979752009-09-22T16:46:35.376-04:002009-09-22T16:46:35.376-04:00no! resisters unite!! ;)no! resisters unite!! ;)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com