Why is it that some literature, songs, paintings seem to be immortal and are lauded for generations? What is the difference between those pieces, and art created that seemingly eventually disappears from memory or that’s popularity is short lived?
Was wondering if it could have something to do with a shared experience of the art or a shared emotion?
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6 responses to “What is it that makes some works of arts seemingly immortal?”
craftsmanship
level of influence on everything that comes after
& a good accompanying story doesn’t hurt
I think it has a lot to do with Jung’s concept of a common consciousness.
They have to tell a good or interesting archetypical story. (Even a score of music tells a story, using a type of grammar and syntax very similar to spoken language).
And if an artist produces several such works, all of their works garner more attention and scrutiny.
Which can then gain historical value as a cultural snapshot.
@griz I thought maybe they all have something in common such as making us feel a desirable emotion.
@Scarlett
I think the commonality is more in primitive narratives that then triggers the emotions. That’s handed up to the cortex to apply language, and then to the prefrontal cortex to further experiment with.
That’s maybe why children are often fatally attracted to beautiful things like water, fire and precipices but can’t articulate why; and why trying to teach them art appreciation before their frontal cortex starts to develop just frustrates both parties!
I’ve never really thought of myself as a work of art…but I have heard it said of me by some through out history, “You’re a real piece of work you know that”…lol
Some art lasts awhile, some is forever.
People want to believe things that are not true, and tend to like the same lies across the generations.
But then, there is truth.
True beauty is disguised, and to reveal it, as an artist… is to show the morning. It is a dawn you never forget. That first true dawn.
Then all the scribbles of the night, are lost forever.
Until we get there, we won’t know.