Poetry in art Divination of the spiritual and the things of sense Relation to the world is too much with us far and near there is a tendency of the feeling of the world as it is today saturated with visuals o Today Warhol doesn t mean too much People are stuck on tradition They must make art in such a way because art is with them in such a way Publicity and art We think we have choice but we are very influenced by things We think of the image of something as what we are told it should be When we are told something over and over again we accept it as given When we think about poetry and things we need to think about that quote is about the senses Stop and think about the senses The divination of the spiritual and things of sense suggests artificial material In the material world we are given things that are strictly physical Response of our senses Children are pure They know when they are given the splendor of beauty we know that truth is obscure The inexplicable People will always try to explain something To try to identify something that you can t identify is put into riddles We know mythic stories there are riddles Oedipus attempted to answer the riddles Saying you know how to make art when you don t thus we have the riddles that reveal the inexplicable in other words riddles are indecipherable If you can say you understand the riddles but don t the penalty is death Mythical world Jesus was a carpenter Harmony carpenter s word When you know how to cut pieces of wood they fit with each other they were in harmony Other deities significant figures that took a making lifestyle to accompany their wise spiritual one They were makers harmony makers Cosmos Cosmic harmonies are reflected by the way 2 pieces of wood are put together by carpenters Form is that which that makes the thing that it is Being that which is Existence that which is in time and space Form explicitly but inexplicably reveals the nature of the being of the thing in time and space We make that which has content The thing is very material but made to go beyond that is spiritual Form is always in the process of becoming Poetic element adds speaking to matter a physical experience you must have to be doing The world is too much far and near to advance the element of form 1 being itself wholeness and integrity 2 existence Duality time and space 3 form process of becoming between the 1 and 3 4 recoming Coming back to the thing duality of the two binary opposites Everything that has an up has a down The reality of it Amidst the most male man feminine features Most female man masculine features Eliot the still point of the turning world Pascal space between Becoming another Space between neither this nor that The creative moment The moment it is becoming art A moment we cannot identify the creative moment the moment of becoming transcendental one 1 Being itself Being that which is Transcendental of oneness It is which it is Pure being must be whole and 2 Next is truth It is what it is Badness or evil in sense of the nature of things when it says its one thing but its actually something else When there is some loss When its not by our choice 3 Next the good is an affirmation When maybe instead its actually just well made 4 Next the beautiful the splendor of things perceived by the senses the experience of a being itself is all Pure is all Truth is awe Experience of good is ah intellectual virtues wisdom prudence art wisdom is usually connected to truth Truth prudence is usually connected to doing things rightly Prudence art is usually connected to doing something outsight the self Wisdom is beautiful as art is true remember each and every is associated with the whole The all Being The one Isness is associated with true Affirmation with good Radiance and splendor with beautiful Senses Sight is usually used to express beauty All sights equally experience beauty 3 types of beauty Physical the nature of the thing Aesthetic the arrangement the way your proportion is The tone of your voice Transcendental 3 definitions 1 that which being seen pleases Pleasure on sight 2 Splendor of form as it shines on the portion parts of things that are dispersed 3 beauty is as beauty does suggests action to beauty Beauty is not the eye of beholder Beauty is embedded in the thing that is All things that are own their own beauty if we do something with the material reality of the thing we have lessened its being beauty is in the thing to be seen everything that is is in its own way beauty Masterpieces are things that appeal beyond their own territory They must be appreciated by a different culture A different time in the history of things Locale elements Are absorbed in a masterpiece Must be appeal beyond its own realm Able to be experienced beyond its time The 3 things that establish the meaning in art are 1 form 2 image what it appears to be 3 concept what it is about the divination of the spiritual and the things in sense states of being and emotion happy is an emotion which comes and goes joy of being is an emotion that stays with us A thing has a thing which has a whole existence Aesthetic existence when it is being experienced then has existence Music doesn t have existence when its not being experienced Maritain odious hateful things are pretty charming and quaint Too associated for loving things of the world for the way they look The decorative art That which is superficial to the spirit of the thing But is attractive one night I sat beauty on my knee and found her bitter Why is beauty gives pleasure on sight but when you posses it you find it bitter Mystical Beauty is momentary We don t want to have beauty leave us and flee There is bitterness for our experience because we experience it with the senses the part of beauty that needs order and harmony The portioning parts of matter The way things are portioned and fit together The whole part of the relationship is the portioned parts of matter