Comments on: Pete Pinnell on fine art that functions http://theaestheticelevator.com/2009/06/26/pete-pinnell-on-fine-art-that-functions/ For a well-considered visual environment Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:21:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Tim J. http://theaestheticelevator.com/2009/06/26/pete-pinnell-on-fine-art-that-functions/#comment-13565 Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:32:31 +0000 http://theaestheticelevator.com/?p=2802#comment-13565 Thanks for posting this. I watched the entire video last week and have been meaning to comment. Some very good points.

In particular, the remark on dissonance you quote above is striking.

It seems to me that any really beautiful art makes use of things like darkness, chaotic or unresolved areas, etc… and that these kinds of things serve to bolster the meaning of areas that are fully resolved, more brightly lit and colored.

Mere prettiness is every bit as much an enemy of beauty as is mere ugliness for the sake of ugliness. The masters of the old academy understood this, but they had many imitators who did not, and so they unwittingly inspired a tidal wave of insipid and over-pretty artwork.

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