the arts and human personality thomas mastroianni
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The Arts and Human Personality
Thomas Mastroianni
Beauty and Truth
The search for knowledge The search for beauty
• Cognitive duality
Dual Cognitive Processes
Logic and linear reasoning - truth
Intuitive insight - beauty
The Family of the Arts
» Details DNA
• Literature Analysis Form
• Painting Content Wholeness
• Architecture Engineering Concept
• Music Theory Integrity
• Dance Technique Integration of
Movement
Literature
• Vocabulary, grammar, syntax
Art vs. Information
• Essay, article, report - Design
• Novel – Form, Insight, Symbolism
• Poem – Form, Symbolism
• Drama – Meaning, Symbolism
Painting and Sculpture
• Image – visual truth or relevance
• Materials - rhythm, color, texture
• Universality
• Design, Form
• Meaning, Symbolism
Architecture
• Materials
• Engineering
• Functionality
• Harmoniousness
• Form
• Symbolism
Music
• Idiom – solo, ensemble, opera
• Tone, time, pattern, harmony
• Phrase, color, shading
• Form, unity of concept
• Integration of meaning, program, symbolism
Dance
• Basic steps, technique
• Patterns, styles
• Choreography
• Emotional unity
• Representation - Meaning - Symbolism
Human PersonalityBilateral Structure
• Physiology• Life patterns, Psychological content• Will, formation -- Knowledge, Truth
• Understanding --- Beauty• Aesthetic experience • Meaningfulness, purpose• Spirituality
The Arts• The Quality of Life• The Mind - repository of experience• The actualization of human personality
depends upon what the mind contains• A life without the arts is mind
impoverishment and mental imbalance
Beauty and Truth
Claude DebussyMusic – Poetry - Painting
Baudelaire - Harmonies du soir
Voici venir les temps où vibrant sur sa tigeChaque fleur s’évapore anisi qu’un encensoir;Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l’air du soir;Valse mélancolique et langoureux vertige!
The time is approaching when trembling on its stemEach flower yields its vapor like an incensor;
The sounds and perfumes swirl in the evening air;Melancholy waltz and langorous vertigo!
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Odilon Redon
OrpheusC.1903Pastel
'Like music, my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate.'
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