Dinesh's photos with the keyword: The Art Instinct

. . . Kant meant that there can be no preconceived idea of a beautiful novel or a beautiful piece of music in the same way: the work of art is not an answer to a problem out in the world but an object of contemplation in the theater of the imagination that makes up its own problems and supplies its own solution. That is why painting with a paint-by-the-numbers set yields, in the terms described, a craft outcome, while committing to a blank canvas an entirely new, imaginative rendering of the Mojave Desert is an art. As art, it cannot be cranked out according to a routine or plan. - 229

Creative story telling -- perhaps the oldest of arts -- is found throughout history, and like language itself, is spontaneously devised and understood by human beings everywhere. Human pleasure in imaginative fictions, from tales told in preliterature tribes through Greek theater, bulky nineteenth-century novels, and film and televised entertainments today. Far from being derived from sets of cultural conventions, the enjoyment of fiction shows clear evidence of Darwinian adaptation, for instance, in how even every young children can rationally deal with the make-believe aspect of stories, distinguishing story-worlds from each other and from reality with a high degree of innate sophistication. Not only does the artistic structure of stories speak to Darwinian sources: so does the intense pleasure taken in their universal themes of live, death, adventure, family conflict, justice, and overcoming adversity.

The arts in all their glory are no more remote from evolved features of the human mind and personality than an oak is remote from the soil and subterranean waters that nourish and sustain it. The evolution of Homo sapiens in the past million years is not just a history of how we come to have acute colour vision, a taste for sweets, and an upright gait. It is also a story of how we became a species obsessed with creating artistic experiences with which to amuse, shock, titillate, and entrapture ourselves, from children’s games to the quarters of Beethoven, from firelit caves to the continuous worldwide glow of television screens. . . . . Picasso defined art as the lie that helps us to see the truth

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