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• teawrecks@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Due to its nature, I’m not going to be able to explain art to you. Cheers.

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  • Jumbie@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Art is escapism. Otherwise it’d be a structure instead of architecture.

    There, I explained it to you.

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Art isn’t just escapism. Sometimes it’s a way to help us understand, contextualize, and/or cope with our own reality.

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      • Jumbie@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You realize you just described escapism in that second paragraph?

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    • teawrecks@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This feels like you’re doing the “qualityslop” troll lol.

      I think you could make art that is escapist in theme, but by definition escapism is any effort you make to “escape” your reality, or the reality of the human condition. In contrast, the value of art is that it gives us a way to communicate about our reality and/or the human condition using a language that lives past literal interpretation.

      Art doesn’t help us to escape our reality, it specifically embraces it and helps us understand and communicate about it. Art is the opposite of escapism.

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      • Jumbie@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You’re throwing contradictory definitions into the same thought. Your second paragraph specifically contradicts your conclusion, for example.

        I’m sure plenty of people assume that someone having an opposite idea from them is a “troll,” but you seem smarter than the usual Reddit reject.

        Are you really not seeing what I’m pointing to or are you the one being a troll?

        Escapism: Using any method to interpret reality instead of directly facing said reality.

        So, if you’re using art to interpret the reality it portrays, you are directly engaging in escapism. Simpler: If you’re looking at a picture of a tree and using your imagination to marry it to the real thing, that is escapism. If you were not doing escapism, you’d go stare at the actual tree.

        How strong is this whiskey?

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