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.'