A
renaissance stunt
A smile on my lips when in a flash I find Plato behind and
Strindberg a fool.
OK, I'm kicking two already lying - my apologies to their memory.
Their times were behind, old fashioned and unscientific.
Or were they?
Plato perceived Art as a sign of bad health.
In the perfect State, Art is redundant.
In the perfect State reality is interesting enough for all classes of
people - Art is worthless.
Strindberg thought that the meteorites emerged out of the cirrus clouds.
Well, knowledge were inadequate one hundred years ago, as well as
two thousand five hundred years ago.
Natural Science vs. Humanistic Science - wasn't Plato more
wrong than Strindberg?
Plato, and his time, didn't know about the art of the old societies
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stone age art and even bronze age art were not recovered yet
(from the walls of unknown caves and soil covered inland rocks).
No one know about "the hunt-and-gather" societies.
Plato should have understood more of the distinct communicative
nature of art in "happy" societies if he had been able to
"read"
the ancient ideograms.
Strindberg and his time were rather uncertain, when it came to
the basics of meteorology, astronomy and geology, but chunks of
iron - from those dancing icy clouds!?
Who is more foolish than the other?
The modern, now living, artist or two of the Encyclopedics of history?
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