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Manythingsmakepeoplethinkmodernartistsarestrangeandthestrangestmaybethis:artists’jobi...
Many things make people think modern artists are strange and the strangest may be this : artists’ job is to examine feelings, and yet they choose to focus on the ones that feel bad. This isn’t always so. The earliest forms of art, like painting and music, are those best suited for expressing joy. But somewhere in the 19th century, more artists began seeing happiness as false, or worst of all, boring as we learnt from Wordsworth’s works to Baudelaire’ s.
You could argue that art became more doubtful about happiness because modern times have seen such misery. But it’ s not as if earlier times didn’ t know cruel war, disaster and the killing of people. The reason, in fact, may be just the opposite: there is too much so-called happiness in the world today. After all, what is the one modern form of expression almost completely devoted to describing happiness? Advertising. Artists almost exactly track the emergence of mass media, and with it, a commercial culture in which happiness is not just an idea but an action.
People in earlier times were surrounded by reminders of misery. They worked until overtired, lived with few protections and died young. In the West, before mass communication, the most powerful method of giving information was the church, Which reminded audiences that their souls were in danger and that they would someday be meat for devils. Given all this, they did not exactly need their art to be bummer too. Today the messages the average westerners meet with are not religious but commercial, and forever happy. Fast-food eaters, news broadcaster’s, text messengers, are all smiling and smiling. Our magazines show shining celebrities and happy families in perfect homes. And these messages have a purpose---to persuade us to open our wallets.
“Great! Celebrate!” commanded the ads for the patients of heart trouble before we could find out it could increase the risk of heart attack.
What we forget – what our economy depends on is forgetting – is that happiness is more than pleasure without pain. The things that bring the greatest joy carry the greatest possibility for loss and disappointment. Today, surrounded by promises of easy happiness, we need someone to tell us as religion once did: remember that you will die, that everything ends, and that happiness comes not by refusing to accept that but by living with that. It’s a message even more bitter than a well-known cigarette, yet somehow, a breath of fresh air. 展开
You could argue that art became more doubtful about happiness because modern times have seen such misery. But it’ s not as if earlier times didn’ t know cruel war, disaster and the killing of people. The reason, in fact, may be just the opposite: there is too much so-called happiness in the world today. After all, what is the one modern form of expression almost completely devoted to describing happiness? Advertising. Artists almost exactly track the emergence of mass media, and with it, a commercial culture in which happiness is not just an idea but an action.
People in earlier times were surrounded by reminders of misery. They worked until overtired, lived with few protections and died young. In the West, before mass communication, the most powerful method of giving information was the church, Which reminded audiences that their souls were in danger and that they would someday be meat for devils. Given all this, they did not exactly need their art to be bummer too. Today the messages the average westerners meet with are not religious but commercial, and forever happy. Fast-food eaters, news broadcaster’s, text messengers, are all smiling and smiling. Our magazines show shining celebrities and happy families in perfect homes. And these messages have a purpose---to persuade us to open our wallets.
“Great! Celebrate!” commanded the ads for the patients of heart trouble before we could find out it could increase the risk of heart attack.
What we forget – what our economy depends on is forgetting – is that happiness is more than pleasure without pain. The things that bring the greatest joy carry the greatest possibility for loss and disappointment. Today, surrounded by promises of easy happiness, we need someone to tell us as religion once did: remember that you will die, that everything ends, and that happiness comes not by refusing to accept that but by living with that. It’s a message even more bitter than a well-known cigarette, yet somehow, a breath of fresh air. 展开
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