Is there actually any point to art? Life is full of beautiful things, why would we need to copy them? Why do we need another form of communication or self-expression?

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Anonymous Thu Jun 18 02:27:26 2020 No.15635781 [Reply] [Original]

Is there actually any point to art? Life is full of beautiful things, why would we need to copy them? Why do we need another form of communication or self-expression?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 18 02:28:26 2020 No.15635783 >>15635781 Art doesn't "copy" beauty, it elevates it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 18 02:29:53 2020 No.15635793 >>15635783 By creating a derivative?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 18 02:32:32 2020 No.15635807 File: 141 KB, 900x736, elijah-taken-up-into-heaven-in-the-chariot-of-fire-pieter-symonsz-potter.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Humanity is part of Creation, too, so one can make the argument that art is, itself, natural.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 18 02:35:05 2020 No.15635824 >>15635793 Sort of? I guess. Doesn't sound wrong at least.

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