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In sum, the speaker has overlooked a crucial distinction between the nature of discovery
and the nature of creation. Although serendipity has always played a key role in many
important discoveries, at least up until now, purposeful intent is necessarily the key to human
creation.
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"In order for any work of art---whether film, literature, sculpture, or a song---to have merit, it
must be understandable to most people."
The speaker's assertion that art must be widely understood to have merit is wrongheaded.
The speaker misunderstands the final objective of art, which has little to do with cognitive
"understanding."
First consider the musical art form. The fact that the listener must "understand" the
composer's artistic expression without the benefit of words or visual images forces us to ask:
"What is there to understand in the first place?" Of course, the listener can always struggle to
appreciate how the musical piece employs various harmonic, melodic, and rhythmic principles.
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Yet it would be absurd to assert that the objective of music is to challenge the listener's
knowledge of music theory. In fact, listening to music is simply an encounter--an experience to
be accepted at face value for its aural impact on our spirit and our emotions.
Next consider the art forms of painting and sculpture. In the context of these art forms, the
speaker seems to suggest that ifwe cannot all understand what the work is supposed to
represent, then we should dismiss the work as worthless. Again, however, the speaker misses
the point of art. Only by provoking and challenging us, and inciting our emotions, imagination,
and wonder do paintings and sculpture hold merit. Put another way, if the test for meritorious
art were its ability to be dearly understood by every observer, then our most valuable art would
simply imitate the mundane physical world around us. A Polaroid picture taken by a monkey
would be considered great art, while the abstract works of Pollock and Picasso would be worth
no more than the salvage value of the materials used to create them.
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