In her blog Denise asked the question:
Is art just an attempt to capture the experience of being alive?
I absolutely adore this question and I think it captures the essence of most of art. Put simply, yes, art is a simple and desperate attempt to capture some of the emotion and being of being alive. Is this not the purpose of many things in our lives. Love stories, love poems, romantic movies all want to capture the feeling and essence of being in love. Even for those who have never felt that feeling of loving and being loved in return, these movies still touch us and make us feel something. Good art, such as a good book or a good movie or a magnificent painting make us feel something. That "something" is not the raw or pure emotion but somewhat of a knockoff of that emotion, a generic if you will. Without the true experience and true emotion, we will never really feel love or anger or passion, but art gives us the next best thing. Art gives us those emotions, captured in a painting or in a book or a film or in a song and it displays it to us in an easily digested fashion. It is this attempt to capture being alive and the feelings of being alive that we enjoy so much . However, as I said before, these are not the true emotions and these are not the true experience and that is why art sometimes leaves us with an empty or wanting more feeling. We want these almost tangible and almost real emotions that are given to us through art but we cannot but see or read or watch them play out. Do you think this is why art a lot of the time inspires us, we want these emotions and feelings?
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