{"id":2894,"date":"2014-08-18T14:41:22","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T18:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2014\/08\/what-is-art\/"},"modified":"2014-08-18T14:41:22","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T18:41:22","slug":"what-is-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2014\/08\/what-is-art\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Art?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Came across some provocative excerpts from a book written in 1897 by Leo Tolstoy entitled: "What Is Art? \u2013\u2013 part of our ongoing investigation of emotion, or "feeling" vs. intellect in the creative process.  Tolstoy makes the case that the test of art is whether it creates emotional resonance:<\/p>\n

To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then, by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed in words, so to transmit that feeling that others may experience the same feeling \u2014 this is the activity of art.<\/em><\/p>\n

[thanks, Brain Pickings]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Came across some provocative excerpts from a book written in 1897 by Leo Tolstoy entitled: "What Is Art? \u2013\u2013 part of our ongoing investigation of emotion, or "feeling" vs. intellect in the creative process.  Tolstoy makes the case that the test of art is whether it creates emotional resonance: To evoke in oneself a feeling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}