/jp/ - Otaku Culture

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Painting is not comparable to this because within it there is no such thing as a score or similar interface in which all the chromatic and tone values that constitute a piece can be written down in characters for anyone else to read, interpret and so reproduce a piece faithfully enough: that's simply not how a painting is made. Also, in music there's no such things as mimesis in the traditional sense: while we normally paint "trees", "clouds", "people" and other stuff we can see and try to copy by the means of some technique and materials, music do not emulate pre-existing sounds; it works differently: music is been abstract art from the very beginning; it might emulate other disciplines' rules of organization, as in the stochastic music of Xenakis, but never aims for "naturalistic" stuff, not even in impressionist or some of Messiaen's music, neither on aleatory or ambiance experiments like Cage's: that's simply not how music is made.

So comparing music and painting is much more problematic than it might look at first. And being able to do either of them competently, doesn't mean you actually understand what you're doing let alone being capable of explaining/teaching them to others. Unlike the masters, average artists are very talented technicians but extremely poor esthetes.