Atheists & Agnostics

uriel1972

(4,261 posts) Tue May 28, 2013, 10:13 AM May 2013

It seems that "bean-counters" can't understand art...

because art is something like religion. I am not sure but it seems to me the poster is trying to argue the truth of religion by the existence of art which is something the bean counters (athiests?) can't get.

It's very confusing and also untrue. This little bean counter gets art, so the premise is false.
Oh well. I await the next try.

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It seems that "bean-counters" can't understand art... (Original Post) uriel1972 May 2013 OP

I remember that thread. Warpy May 2013 #1

Maybe you should make some art JNelson6563 May 2013 #2

Not really... rrneck May 2013 #3

Warpy

(111,261 posts)

1. I remember that thread.

Reply to uriel1972 (Original post)

Tue May 28, 2013, 10:44 AM

May 2013

I remember calling the OP several unflattering things, "disingenous" being one of them.

JNelson6563

(28,151 posts)

2. Maybe you should make some art

Reply to uriel1972 (Original post)

Tue May 28, 2013, 10:45 AM

May 2013

out of beans.

Julie

rrneck

(17,671 posts)

3. Not really...

Reply to uriel1972 (Original post)

Tue May 28, 2013, 11:04 AM

May 2013

As far as I'm concerned religion is a subset of the arts.

In an age where religion has made itself look so foolish, art carries the torch for the sort of transcendence that art and faith once shared. Kapoor's work, for instance, rightly resists categorisation.
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The Marxes and Millers of this world are a mortal danger to true art for they are constantly seeking some reductionist explanation of its value. It may be that some conclude that art (and religion) should therefore have nothing to do with the state and thus give up on state support. I have some sympathy with this. But the alternative may be that these arts executives will then spend their time schmoozing wealthy funders in the Ivy, lunches that always come with strings attached. And art is too valuable to be placed in the hands of those who think value means money.

There is no assumption that "bean counters" are necessarily atheists, but that damage is done to the arts and religion by turning them into a product without consideration for the function of art (and religion) in culture. Religion, as a form of artistic expression, is not synonymous with god. It just seems that way through aggressive, and frequently coercive, marketing.

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