Blind Dancers
This chapter is hard to explain and I don't fully understand it but ill try. The author talks about aesthetic experience. An aesthetic experience he relates to being closely related to death, life, and divinity. He also says some of us call it a religious experience. Also that its hard to explain because our verbal language is not designed to describe new experiences. An example would be, how would you explain color to someone that is blind?. In the authors experience of having an aesthetic experience he was at a museum at the Chicago Art Institute. He spent almost a whole day there looking at paintings as a well trained formalists analyzing each piece. The more his mind became fatigued the more he went until his mind was entirely fatigued. All his analysing had gone. Then he found himself standing in front of Rothkos art, he stood there as a passive viewer experiencing art visually and unconsciously. he literally felt the presence of God, although he is not or was a Christian. In this chapter I found that many experience this in different ways.
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