But are those types really who you want to throw in with? I don’t think anyone here is doing any of that. The same sort will also scoff at and dismiss any explanations you may attempt as pretentious overreading. Movies like Inland Empire, books like The Obscene Bird of Night, and paintings like The Angel of the Home are largely obscure to me, but remain powerful works I’m grateful to have experienced, works whose value to me outpaces innumerable things I apprehended at first glance.Ī strain of anti-intellectualism, a pride in ignorance and incuriosity, surrounds those who scoff at difficult or opaque art works for having those qualities. You don’t have to fully understand something to like it or find it valuable. There is a value in making things to be wrestled with, worked on, understood through effort and increased familiarity. There are other goals to art than being immediately apprehensible. Hell, by that logic the entire modernist period of art, literature, and music would be a failure.
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