Friday 9 December 2011

Blind spots in the Arts

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I am very sensitive and discriminating in relation to the literary arts (prose, poetry, drama), and also to music including singing; less sensitive to the visual arts - highly responsive to portraiture and architecture (and landscape); and hardly-at-all responsive to sculpture (Rodin is the one and only sculptor to move me); and I am almost-completely artistically insensitive to 'dance' such as ballet (I might enjoy the music and animal grace and beauty of the dancers - the not the artistry of 'dance' as such).

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Some people have a *very* specialized artistic sensistivity: Charles Williams lived for poetry and literature but was completely indifferent to the visual arts and even to landscape; and was 'tone deaf' - in other words found music meaningless, could not sing in tune and was unaware that he could not sing in tune.

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4 comments:

dearieme said...

Sculptures? Pack your boots and rucksack, and drive over here. Magnificent.
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/celynog/Dumfries/sculpture_walk.htm

Bruce Charlton said...

Errr...

Nothing.

Sorry.

dearieme said...

No, go and look. A sunny, breezy day on the moors and a wee treck - it's all very invigorating.

Kevin Joyce said...

Sculpture?

Bernini!

And don't say "Errr... Nothing. Sorry."