Some of the best art unites both in interesting and beautiful ways.

I think the point that is overlooked here is that art is for the most part inherently subjective. Therefore I think that your que... [show more]

I think the point that is overlooked here is that art is for the most part inherently subjective. Therefore I think that your question is redundant and and that it misses its mark terribly. [show less]

I have some notes from Renaissance discussion of poetry as something which inherently lies: In fact, poetry was even referred to a... [show more]

I have some notes from Renaissance discussion of poetry as something which inherently lies: In fact, poetry was even referred to as the "mother of lies" by harsher critics at the time. Against this accusation, Sir Philip Sidney argued that "the poet, he nothing affirms, and therefore never lieth. For, as I take it, to lie is to affirm that to be true which is false [...] the poet (as I said before) never affirmeth. The poet never maketh any circles about your imagination, to conjure you to believe for true what he writes."

Now if the artist makes a claim to honesty--then yes, they can lie. But even then, a claim to honesty might be part of the art itself and not to be trusted. Think of the opening of Coleridge's "Kubla Khan"--I'm not sure he's telling the truth. Or when Dan Brown said bits of _The Da Vinci Code_ were fact. Hawthorne has started books with proclamation of "truth" that you have to take with a grain of salt. [show less]

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