Yes, art, like any other endeavour, is a response to being in the world and may well be called "biological".popeye1945 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 23, 2022 5:39 pmBelinda,Belinda wrote: ↑Sat Jul 23, 2022 1:08 amI think I agree with you. To make sure I understand what you are saying would you please say what, other than context, someone might suggest art springs from ? ( or any other human endeavour springs from ). True, there are what are usually called 'instincts' but these would be dormant or moribund in a context vacuum.popeye1945 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 22, 2022 10:28 pm Belinda,
Frankly, it all sounds like context to me certainly context in transformation at times, but to think what contextual experience has taught us in the past does not determine what is to come is not logical. We are that which experiences and we react out of those experiences, experience is knowledge, art is the management thereof.
Context is in its full meaning the world as object. As to the source of art like all other endevores it comes as a biological extension into the world as object, an expression a manifestation of human nature. Humanity being much more complex than its cousins it is also creatively more complex. Art is a human endevor for though in nature there is much beauty it comes to be though a natural process but basically unintentional. I believe art is a celebration of object/s in the widest sense. Beauty is the most healthy well adapted samples of its kind and according to kind it has measures of structure and form which in itself determines function. The essence of life being the same in all creatures, it is the complexity of organism and structure and form which makes for differentiation, but not essence, essence is the same across the board.
Art is communication between elements of a common biology and what is the communication about, it can only be about what it is to be and be in a human world. Biology creates objects through the energies that affect change in that same said biology thus, you might say that objects are ideas of the body as mind interprets, for the body is the idea of the mind. We know all meaning is the property of the subject, read biology because apparent reality is a reaction to the energies of the physical world which is composed of pure energies. I'll try not to babble on to much longer, so, art is the expression of the nature of humanities relations to itself for there is no separation between the object topic and the biological sensing of it.
Some people (but not I) may claim a work of art is a direct and irresistible influence from God. Athena was the Greek (polytheist) goddess of art and creativity. Polytheistic gods are unpredictable supernatural forces that are inexorable like natural disasters are inexorable.
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Belinda,
Much like the Hindu gods which are not the ultimate, but represent the verious energies that manifest in human nature.
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I think all gods are explanations of the world and of our human condition, and I don't believe gods intervene in history to arbitrarily influence the course of events. One event is the creation of a work of art, and I don't believe gods ever intervene on special miraculous occasions to get an artist to create something. Since miracles are never the case what remains is what you call "biology" or "context".