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It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes.

Oh, dear.

I don't think I misunderstand the spirit of classical art quite that badly. There is a 17th century Dutch landscape painting in the Frick Gallery in New York (can't remember the artist right now, will post the name if I do) It's a bucolic scene of a thatched-roof country cottage with a wrought iron fence in front of it. From a distance of at least 5 feet or so, that fence looks like it was painted in the most astoundingly accurate and meticulous detail. But if you look very closely, you see a technique was used that produced that effect with a relatively few simple but carefully placed brush strokes, and the "realism" dissolves.

The artist there effectively evoked the idea of the peaceful beauty of the countryside, letting the eye see what it wants to see, without coming anywhere near what we might call "photographic" realism or detail but with superb technique just the same. That is the spirit of great art of any era, imo.

Great modern art and music, including abstract art and "atonal" music, can have the same impact.


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