The two men that we are supposed to look at for the blog have a different but sort of similar style to looking at art. Tolstoy holds more of focus on the individual experience of art while Nietzche holds a more generalist approach to the importance of art.
Tolstoy defines art with three parts. Art must possess individual of feeling, the feeling which it is trying to transmit must be clear and the artist must be sincere in the message they are trying to convey. For Tolstoy any combination of these three attributes in any quantity go together to create art. This individualistic approach to the power of image behind art, makes art valid and powerful. Furthermore if only "spectators or auditors are infected by the feeling the author has felt, is it art.
Like I am sure many other students have talked about in their blogs Nietzche, focuses his discussion on the Dionysian versus the Apollonian forces that drive art. In sort the Apolonian forces seem to appeal to a more individualistic view of the world and through the use of Dionysian forces, the piece and be generalized to the mass of humanity thus making it easier to understand and appreciate. It is through this general applicability that is created when a piece of art can appeal to larger group of people is what Neitzsche would define as good art.
So looking at the two ideologies, we can see how they are both similar and a little different. Tolstoy clearly puts important on the individual much more than Nietzsche, but at the same time both Tolstoy and Nietzsche follow the ideology that art must have an "infectious" effect to use Tolstoy's terminology, thus causing the viewer to understand the meaning that the artist was trying to convey.
Not too clear or applicable, Gunnar: "In sort the Apolonian forces seem to appeal to a more individualistic view of the world and through the use of Dionysian forces, the piece and be generalized to the mass of humanity thus making it easier to understand and appreciate. It is through this general applicability that is created when a piece of art can appeal to larger group of people is what Neitzsche would define as good art." E.g., not clear what you understand by Appolonian or Dionysian forces. Check out e.g. Ann's and Julianna's blogs for concise descriptions of the two.
The two men that we are supposed to look at for the blog have a different but sort of similar style to looking at art. Tolstoy holds more of focus on the individual experience of art while Nietzche holds a more generalist approach to the importance of art.
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Like I am sure many other students have talked about in their blogs Nietzche, focuses his discussion on the Dionysian versus the Apollonian forces that drive art. In sort the Apolonian forces seem to appeal to a more individualistic view of the world and through the use of Dionysian forces, the piece and be generalized to the mass of humanity thus making it easier to understand and appreciate. It is through this general applicability that is created when a piece of art can appeal to larger group of people is what Neitzsche would define as good art.
So looking at the two ideologies, we can see how they are both similar and a little different. Tolstoy clearly puts important on the individual much more than Nietzsche, but at the same time both Tolstoy and Nietzsche follow the ideology that art must have an "infectious" effect to use Tolstoy's terminology, thus causing the viewer to understand the meaning that the artist was trying to convey.
Not too clear or applicable, Gunnar: "In sort the Apolonian forces seem to appeal to a more individualistic view of the world and through the use of Dionysian forces, the piece and be generalized to the mass of humanity thus making it easier to understand and appreciate. It is through this general applicability that is created when a piece of art can appeal to larger group of people is what Neitzsche would define as good art." E.g., not clear what you understand by Appolonian or Dionysian forces. Check out e.g. Ann's and Julianna's blogs for concise descriptions of the two.
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