The goal in the essay is to relate the view of Eco or Tarkovsky (I am looking for your opinion but I want you to describe to the best of your ability using quotes from the respective chapters). The ‘A’ paper utilized quotes and accurately relates the author’s view as presented in the respective chapters
The book is Sculpting in Time by Andrei Tarkovsky
1/2 – 1 page per question
1. Based upon the excerpt from Tarkovsky below: What is Tarkovsky’s View on the relationship between ‘truth’ and ‘art’?
2. Why according to Tarkovsky is the beautiful hidden from the eyes of those who are not searching for the truth?
3. How does the reduction of artistic taste to the limited range of individual subjectivity: “I like it!” “I don’t like it!” mask the person’s refusal to consider the aim and meaning of their existence?
4. Finally, how does the contemporary culture, aimed at the consumer, cripple people’s souls by destroying people’s awareness of all that goes with the conscious sense of the beautiful. Relate this answer to your response to #3. Give an example.
Excerpt for question 1-
The beautiful is hidden from the eyes of those who are not searching for the truth, for whom it is contra-indicated. But the profound lack the spirituality of those people who see art and condemn it, the fact that they are neither willing nor ready to consider the meaning and aim of their existence in any higher sense, is often masked by the vulgarly simplistic cry, “I don’t like it!” “It’s boring!” It is not a point that one can argue; but it is like the utterance of a man born blind who is being told about a rainbow. He simply remains deaf to the pain undergone by the artist in order to share with others the truth he has reached.
But what is truth?
I think that one of the saddest aspects of our time is the total destruction in people’s awareness of all that goes with a conscious sense of the beautiful. Modern mass culture, aimed at the ‘consumer’, the civilization of prosthetics, is crippling people’s souls, setting up barriers between man and the crucial questions of his existence, his consciousness of himself as a spiritual being. But the artist cannot be deaf to the call of truth; it alone defines his creative will, organises it, thus enabling him to pass on his faith to others. An artist who has no faith is like a painter who was born blind.
(Another set of 2 questions below)
Using ideas from Tarkovsky’s chapter 2; Art—A yearning for the ideal Tarkovsky writes concerning the goal of art that:
(excerpt below)
In an case it is perfectly clear that the goal for all art—unless of course it is aimed at the ‘consumer’, like a saleable commodity — is to explain to the artist himself and to those around him what man lives for, what is the meaning of his existence. To explain to people the reason for their appearance on this planet; or if not to explain, at least to pose the question.
(excerpt done)
What according to Tarkovsky is the proper goal of art, provided that it is not aimed at being a saleable commodity?
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Added on 25.03.2016 20:11
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