{"id":28865,"date":"2015-04-27T12:34:46","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T00:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=28865"},"modified":"2015-04-27T12:34:46","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T00:34:46","slug":"the-perfect-quote-on-art-to-start-your-week-from-aristotle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/04\/27\/the-perfect-quote-on-art-to-start-your-week-from-aristotle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Perfect Quote On Art To Start Your Week &#8212; From Aristotle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>~ Aristotle, 384-322 BC<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>When I saw this quote recently, I thought how perfectly it expressed my understanding of art and creativity.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most apt analogy from writing is found in Japanese haiku poetry. Although based in concrete observation of the real, the haiku should nonetheless add up to a whole that is greater than the sum of its constituent parts&#8212;what is sometimes referred to as the &#8216;a-ha!&#8217; moment when, to return to Aristotle, the reader realises that inner significance that is more than the concrete elements (usually in nature) that are being described.<\/p>\n<p>Also something to reflect on, given on our age of incessant &#8216;chatter&#8217; (what Herman Hesse, in his novel, <em><strong>The Glass Bead Game<\/strong><\/em> referred to as The Age of Feuilleism, which is now even &#8216;more so&#8217; with social media) &#8212; Aristotle&#8217;s reflection on art was made almost two and a half millennia ago and is still just as relevant today.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.&#8221; ~ Aristotle, 384-322 BC &#8212; When I saw this quote recently, I thought how perfectly it expressed my understanding of art and creativity. Perhaps the most apt analogy from writing is found in Japanese haiku poetry. Although based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28865"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28871,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28865\/revisions\/28871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}