Comments on: Why Art Matters: Rebellion, Beauty, Life http://jeffberryman.com/2009/07/21/why-art-matters-rebellion-beauty-life/ Cobbling together the artist's life...acting, writing, directing, teaching...making beauty... Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:40:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: jeffberryman http://jeffberryman.com/2009/07/21/why-art-matters-rebellion-beauty-life/#comment-977 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:42:22 +0000 http://jeffberryman.com/?p=542#comment-977 Cathi,

Thanks for the article. While I don’t agree with the finality of his conclusion, I like the direction of it. I’ve been using the medical school analogy with students for years, but not in quite the same way.

Jeff

]]> By: cathi grandfield http://jeffberryman.com/2009/07/21/why-art-matters-rebellion-beauty-life/#comment-976 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:33:23 +0000 http://jeffberryman.com/?p=542#comment-976 “Art is one of the ways in which we say, ‘I am alive, and my life has meaning.’”

http://www.bostonconservatory.edu/s/940/Bio.aspx?sid=940&gid=1&pgid=1241

Great thoughts, although I don’t agree with his conclusions…

]]> By: Jenny Price http://jeffberryman.com/2009/07/21/why-art-matters-rebellion-beauty-life/#comment-975 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:15:39 +0000 http://jeffberryman.com/?p=542#comment-975 Wow, I just watched the first part of Amelia. Wow. I still have chills. The dance, the expressions, the room. I have no idea what it means, but I was entranced.

I think art is important for this very reason. We spend so much time in our own world, in our own heads, thinking a certain way. Art can remove us from that place and put us somewhere else, if only for a time. It can show us there are other things, other ways to see what is around us, and sometimes can reveal to us a truth we did not before see.

Art can also illuminate beauty. Not all art IS beautiful, but I would argue that hideous art can still point to beauty. Unpack that one if you dare, Jeff. I am not adept enough to do so.

The dance piece is beautiful, stark, tragic, aggressive, and almost violent. Even the poses of absolute stillness (the athlete in me is in awe of the woman’s strength to accomplish those still forms) have energy and anticipation in them. Amazing.

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