10-16-2009, 04:16 PM
Hoofhurr Wrote:I'm not sure what you're getting at Vllad. It's getting fairly existential. Is Bach really that different from Mozart?
To put my questions in perspective Tupac has more in common with the Dixie Chicks then Bach had with Mozart. I would still throw Music out of the Art discussion though because Music isn't art with exception of the performance factor. Music is so mathematical that it was never destined for artistic variences anyway. I think that is why Music will always be a constant because Music is constant by its nature.
That isn't true for the other mediums.
Hoofhurr Wrote:There is a lot of original sounding stuff out there.
Are you sure? Let me expand.
Has paintings really improved since the time of David? Is Picaso famous because he was better then David? No. His works are famous because they were original. The common individual knows Picaso and Monet and the many inbetween mattered because the medium was still being expanded upon. The same could be said for fictional books.
In other words did technology kill books or did the lack of new stories kill books. One would think that books would translate well to the today's technology but that really hasn't panned out. Has it?
Hoofhurr Wrote:Your questions seem more about new technologies replacing the old and the relevancy of old technologies and not the relevancy of the art itself.
No I am not talking about new tech because with new tech comes new mediums and with new mediums comes new idea's. The younger a medium is the more original the idea's are. Guitar Hero is a great example. It is an original product when put to gaming standards.
I am asking the question; Does technology dismiss older mediums or does technology advance because older mediums have run there course? Ask yourself what are the most important mediums today?
Are Books, Scultures, Paintings and Photography less influencial today then in the past? If so why? Will movies and television have the same slow death as books? Because of the lack of new idea's for television and movies will a new medium of entertainment be successful because of the lack of new material from the older mediums?
Vllad