I broke up with art a few years ago, and we’ve just gotten to the point where we’re starting to be on speaking terms again. However, I’m still really confused about importance of beauty in the world and whether it’s a justifiable end on its own without other purposes like love.
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This definitely was catalysed by Effective Altruism, but our wider society doesn’t have a coherent relationship with art and beauty at all. It’s like we believe we have a drinking problem whenever we’re consuming art. What’s a recovering artist to do?
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So y’all, what I’m really asking for is thoughts and links on beauty and it’s relationship to things like responsibility, compassion, solidarity. How can you seriously make art without abandoning a responsibility to usefulness, connection, service?
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from a long time ago https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2015/05/how-beauty-fits/ … and something I think about a lot https://www.researchgate.net/profile/James_Peters/post/Is_the_beauty_of_patterns_or_are_the_structures_in_patterns_the_most_important_source_of_mathematics/attachment/59d6287fc49f478072e9bbea/AS%3A272438301003783%401441965761076/download/Rota-mathBeauty-Synthese-1997.pdf …
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Ahhh yess this: ‘Both beauty and utility are qualities of “fit” with the human context.’ and in one sentence is summarised why I hate almost all tattoos ever created - they hardly ever ‘fit’ their wearers or their wearers’ other tattoos.
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yeah it’s actually shocking when you see someone with truly excellent tattoos that do fit
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I know only one such person - and I know a lot of people with tattoos.
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