Perhaps art is seeing the obvious in such a new light that the old becomes new.
--Madeleine l'Engle. WALKING ON WATER, p175.
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Behold, I make all things new.
--Jesus, in the aptly-named book of Revelation.
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I've learned a ton about art this past decade or so. We've been to museums and galleries in San Diego, Tucson, Phoenix, Oklahoma City, Chicago, Boston, and both the Portland and Colby Museums here in Maine. I've been fascinated recently in reading about the intersections of art and world history...and literature, architecture and culture.
Applying the term "art" to all the creative enterprises, l'Engle offers a valid way of getting under one roof all of our open-ended, imagination-fueled pursuits, from painting to poetry, from sculpting to scripting. She also recognizes that there are creative, non-rule-bound creative leaps in the sciences, be they nuclear physics or sub-cellular mechanisms, brilliant computer programming, or the solution to Fermat's "unsolvable" Last Theorem.
Okay, perhaps that's a bit windy--let's try again: Madeleine sees creativity everywhere, in all jobs and tasks. Some jobs are more up-front in the use and need for creativity--other jobs require the worker to be creative in order to not die of boredom!
Applying the term "art" to all the creative enterprises, l'Engle offers a valid way of getting under one roof all of our open-ended, imagination-fueled pursuits, from painting to poetry, from sculpting to scripting. She also recognizes that there are creative, non-rule-bound creative leaps in the sciences, be they nuclear physics or sub-cellular mechanisms, brilliant computer programming, or the solution to Fermat's "unsolvable" Last Theorem.
Okay, perhaps that's a bit windy--let's try again: Madeleine sees creativity everywhere, in all jobs and tasks. Some jobs are more up-front in the use and need for creativity--other jobs require the worker to be creative in order to not die of boredom!
I also like Madeleine's observations on our reactions to disorder:
--some see chaos and bring cosmos out of chaos.
--others, seeing chaos, only reproduce chaos in their art.
I'd add to l'Engle's thoughts:
--there are probably many more who, trapped inside chaos, cannot escape it and thus are chaos.
For those of you who like word games...turn "OLD" into "NEW" via one-letter substitutions in the fewest steps possible.
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mebbe not the shortest, but after a coupla missteps:
OLD
odd
ode
ole
owe
............not gonna go.....
OLD
odd
add
and
end
any
ana
............phooey, again....
OLD
odd
ole |
ale |
are |
ore <--
ort
oat
cat
caw
saw
sew
NEW
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