I am very sensitive and discriminating in relation to the literary arts (prose, poetry, drama), and also to music including singing; less sensitive to the visual arts - highly responsive to portraiture and architecture (and landscape); and hardly-at-all responsive to sculpture (Rodin is the one and only sculptor to move me); and I am almost-completely artistically insensitive to 'dance' such as ballet (I might enjoy the music and animal grace and beauty of the dancers - the not the artistry of 'dance' as such).
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Some people have a *very* specialized artistic sensistivity: Charles Williams lived for poetry and literature but was completely indifferent to the visual arts and even to landscape; and was 'tone deaf' - in other words found music meaningless, could not sing in tune and was unaware that he could not sing in tune.
"Blind spots in the Arts"
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Sculptures? Pack your boots and rucksack, and drive over here. Magnificent.
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/celynog/Dumfries/sculpture_walk.htm
9 December 2011 at 14:31
Errr...
Nothing.
Sorry.
9 December 2011 at 14:43
No, go and look. A sunny, breezy day on the moors and a wee treck - it's all very invigorating.
9 December 2011 at 23:43
Sculpture?
Bernini!
And don't say "Errr... Nothing. Sorry."
10 December 2011 at 02:16