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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
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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 AnalysisForm • Painting ContentWholeness • Architecture EngineeringConcept • Music TheoryIntegrity • 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 The sounds and perfumes swirl in the evening air
Baudelaire-Harmonies du soir Voici venir les temps où vibrant sur sa tige Chaque 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 stem Each flower yields its vapor like an incensor; The sounds and perfumes swirl in the evening air; Melancholy waltz and langorous vertigo! ……………………..
Odilon Redon OrpheusC.1903Pastel 'Like music, my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate.'