Art Or Fart Comments

TRADING FART FOR ART NOT SMART

I've always rebelled that art can't be a candle with blurred distorted illumination; but rather art should be independent from all forms of corrupt activities and influence from other sources of power. Art should be a light of grandeur on top of a societal table to bestow wisdom, knowledge and intelligence on the human species. I am aware that there exist a strong religious, semiotic and linguistic dichotomy between what is being referred to by knowledge, intelligence and wisdom, perhaps that can remain a debate for lexicographers, linguistics and philosophers for they are the cardinal sinners guilty of ‘connotation, meaning and denotation'.
Art should challenge social norms while at the same time portraying the world as changeable and help in changing it; its purpose should be to discredit authority as the truth and credit truth as the real fundamental basis where authority ought to be built. The actual quandary faced by art and artists is to create the real in the ideal. So in the best artistic space there exists no conflict between the real and the ideal, between the thought and the dream. For the ideal is nothing but the manifestation of logic and solid reason.
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