Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts

Sunday, July 27, 2008

A Quick Thought on Vomit

One of my goals for this blog will be develop, over the next several months and through my reading of various books, a Biblical view of beauty.  This is to answer questions like: what is beauty?, what is art?, is there an objective, Biblical standard to beauty?, what are the criteria for evaluating art?.

Obviously, we need to start with definitions.  But since I have not yet thought up my own or read a good, Biblically grounded definition of art, I'll start with what art is not.

"Art is the process by which all our emotions and feelings come bursting forth from ourselves as creative expression."  I hear this a lot, in one form or another.  It has also always seemed like a rather curious definition to me, as on the list of "Things That Come Bursting Forth From Ourselves" includes things like vomit.