The highest art form: what is it?

[Lamo]

Originally Posted by Rome

Stripped of all its hyperbole, mysticism, and otherwise affections, religion, hints at something much more innate. I much prefer it that art can’t be helped.

Ingmar bergman would disagree. Religion and art have always been intrinsically linked. Spirituality, as an abstract form of thinking, has always provided inspiration for artists throughout history. Sadly, that doesn't seem to be case anymore as modern religions have taken a turn for the worse.

 

[matadorpoeta]

Originally Posted by LabelKing

Klaus Kinski said acting was like being a whore.
i agree with klaus kinski, though some actors have been famous for doing things their way and not allowing themselves to be directed. brando was one of them. he was making a movie once with a director who had done some of the muppet movies, and when the director complained to brando that he was delivering the lines as wriiten, brando said to him, 'i'm not one of your muppets with your hand up ******!' or something to that effect.

 

[LabelKing]

Originally Posted by redcaimen

Kant said, "Mime is the art form that speaks to my soul and yet I am having trouble hearing what its saying." One of his pupils spoke out and said, "hes not saying a damn thing", and was immediately removed from the great mans presence.
Kant's conception of art was rather a Platonic method, with usefullness an automatic deduction from the pantheon of art.

 

[Rome]

Originally Posted by Lamo

Ingmar bergman would disagree. Religion and art have always been intrinsically linked. Spirituality, as an abstract form of thinking, has always provided inspiration for artists throughout history. Sadly, that doesn't seem to be case anymore as modern religions have taken a turn for the worse.
The predominant arts inspired by religions seem (to me) to be more so trying to attain or recreate the imagery or ornate-ness of their benefactor in a glorified rendition of understood history/reality. I have yet to see a rendition of Jesus where he is more so depicted as an abstract light illuminating the path to god than as an incarnation of suffering or simplistically holy. Then again for conceptually spiritual art I prefer Buddhist and Shinto. I was not trying to divorce religion/spirituality from art, merely saying that at its most simple core it is in fact art. It is that abstract that art alludes to. If I could try crassly to put it into words, it is that connection that exists only in the ethereal.

 

[Lamo]

Originally Posted by Rome

If I could try crassly to put it into words, it is that connection that exists only in the ethereal.

ah, i'm afraid i didn't read the thread thoroughly. my mistake.

 

[Britalian]

Plastic surgery, maybe?
http://www.joanrivers.com/

 

[muelleran]

Originally Posted by LabelKing

Klaus Kinski said acting was like being a whore.


Oh no, not him

 

[Dragon]

The highest art form?...Culinary

 

[GQgeek]

My vote goes to music.

When I moved in to my new apartment, the first thing i did was hook-up my stereo, toe-in my speakers, adjust the amp for the new space and plop myself down on the couch to listen to Rach 3 at a loud volume.

No other form of art has the same ability to transform my mood. A painting or sculpture might be beautiful, but they don't make me feel anything; they're just nice to look at.

 

[Eiy-Kyu]

Typography, because none of the other art forms mentioned here would exist without the written word.

 

[Rome]

Originally Posted by Eiy-Kyu

Typography, because none of the other art forms mentioned here would exist without the written word.
What about the cave paintings in France?

 

[LabelKing]

Originally Posted by Eiy-Kyu

Typography, because none of the other art forms mentioned here would exist without the written word.
This is not true.

 

[Matt]

trolling on SF is turning into a high art.

The trolls here take time to invent little worlds around themselves, introduce a cast of characters, engage the members, occassionally amuse, and eventually get annoying, get banned and resurface with new names, new characters (ah Hector, we hardly knew ye) and we go round again.

 

[redcaimen]

Originally Posted by m@T

trolling on SF is turning into a high art.

The trolls here take time to invent little worlds around themselves, introduce a cast of characters, engage the members, occassionally amuse, and eventually get annoying, get banned and resurface with new names, new characters (ah Hector, we hardly knew ye) and we go round again.

My favorite is that beach boys guy. There are some people who are still taking him seriously.

 

[chrysalid]

I believe that for a piece of cinema to be regarded as art, it has to be the product of an auteur, the director has to have had an influence in every part of the film, from screenplay through soundtrack to final editing.