#aethsetics

...what is it about lava/magma/volcanoes as an aesthetic that comes across as almost cartoonish vs threatening? (And why isn’t anyone ever keeling over from the toxic fumes? Think the only media I’ve seen acknowledge their smell is Shrek.)

It may be maintained that the artist's world is that of imaginative intuition, or of common sense, or of natural science; and this world may be held to include, or not to include, gods, witches, chimeras, and Platonic Ideas.

Art’s purposiveness, free of any practical purpose, is to its similarity to language; its being “without a purpose” is its nonconceptuality, that which distinguishes art from significative language. Artworks move toward the idea of language of things only by way of their own language through the organization of their disparate elements; the more they are syntactically articulated in themselves, the more eloquent they become in all their elements.