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The Arts and Human Personality

This work delves into the intricate relationship between the arts and human personality, exploring themes of beauty, truth, and knowledge. It discusses cognitive duality and the interplay between logical reasoning and intuitive insight across various art forms, including literature, painting, architecture, music, and dance. By analyzing the psychological underpinnings of artistic expression, the text emphasizes the importance of the arts in enriching human experience, fostering emotional unity, and shaping meaningful lives. It highlights how aesthetic experiences contribute significantly to human understanding and spirituality.

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The Arts and Human Personality

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  1. The Arts and Human Personality Thomas Mastroianni

  2. Beauty and Truth The search for knowledge The search for beauty • Cognitive duality

  3. Dual Cognitive Processes Logic and linear reasoning - truth Intuitive insight - beauty

  4. The Family of the Arts • Details DNA • Literature AnalysisForm • Painting ContentWholeness • Architecture EngineeringConcept • Music TheoryIntegrity • Dance Technique Integration of Movement

  5. Literature • Vocabulary, grammar, syntax Art vs. Information • Essay, article, report - Design • Novel – Form, Insight, Symbolism • Poem – Form, Symbolism • Drama – Meaning, Symbolism

  6. Painting and Sculpture • Image – visual truth or relevance • Materials - rhythm, color, texture • Universality • Design, Form • Meaning, Symbolism

  7. Architecture • Materials • Engineering • Functionality • Harmoniousness • Form • Symbolism

  8. Music • Idiom – solo, ensemble, opera • Tone, time, pattern, harmony • Phrase, color, shading • Form, unity of concept • Integration of meaning, program, symbolism

  9. Dance • Basic steps, technique • Patterns, styles • Choreography • Emotional unity • Representation - Meaning - Symbolism

  10. Human PersonalityBilateral Structure • Physiology • Life patterns, Psychological content • Will, formation -- Knowledge, Truth • Understanding --- Beauty • Aesthetic experience • Meaningfulness, purpose • Spirituality

  11. The Arts • The Quality of Life • The Mind - repository of experience • The actualization of human personality depends upon what the mind contains • A life without the arts is mind impoverishment and mental imbalance Beauty and Truth

  12. Claude DebussyMusic – Poetry - Painting The sounds and perfumes swirl in the evening air

  13. Baudelaire-Harmonies du soir Voici venir les temps où vibrant sur sa tige Chaque fleur s’évapore anisi qu’un encensoir; Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l’air du soir; Valse mélancolique et langoureux vertige! The time is approaching when trembling on its stem Each flower yields its vapor like an incensor; The sounds and perfumes swirl in the evening air; Melancholy waltz and langorous vertigo! ……………………..

  14. Odilon Redon OrpheusC.1903Pastel 'Like music, my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate.'

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