Saturday, December 12, 2020

Aesthetics and the Christian Musician—part 6

 

Aesthetics and the Christian Musician—part 6

          After French impressionism, came several schools of artistic thought that had an effect on music philosophy and composition.  Dadaism was one of those movements that struck out at traditional aesthetic and moral values.  This school of thought, starting around 1916, used chance techniques and was a very irreverent and often irrational artistic absurdity.  Proponents of Dadaism were Tristan Tzara (1896-1963), Jean Arp (1887-1966) and others.

          This movement gave rise to surrealism which was formulated by AndrĂ© Breton (1896-1966) and made famous by Salvador Dali (1904-1984).  The philosophy of surrealism came from Breton’s automatism philosophy that what a person thinks, feels or wills is determined by physical changes in that person’s body.  This philosophy purports that although one is fully conscious, actions come from subconscious images over which that person has no control.

 

Thought for the Day

At the time of Impressionism morals and theology weakened before the fine arts become distorted. This is spoken of in 2Timothy 4:3-4, “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.”   It is also mentioned in Romans 1:24-25 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.”

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