An artistic endeavor revolves around the emotions, creativity and individualism. Typically they involve the humanities and the arts, be it literature, theater, music, dance, painting, sculpture, interior design, etc. The emotional element is always latently or potentially or overtly present in that you feel emotions and intuitions when creating the art. Art is highly individualistic so that whatever I experience, someone else could not totally replicate. Individual creativity is celebrated. With science, objectivity, standard repeatable experiments, logic and rational observation prevail. Emotions are kept to a minimum because they could skew our objective, unbiased, quantitative (versus artistic which is qualiftative) inferences, or reasoning with facts and information. Math is the language of science, whereas regular literary language and other subjective mediums (air for music) and materials (clay for pottery, canvas for painting) preside over artistic endeavours. Precise empirical data, procedures and observations are important in science so that if you make a discovery, other scientific researchers can replicate and thus verify your results. It's a good question. I remember in college I had Chaucer one hour and botany the next hour - art vs science. It was almost like academic schizophrenia in that the two are so opposite in their pursuits.
2016-10-28 14:34:14 UTC
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2016-04-07 07:40:15 UTC
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Language is an art not a science. As such, every usage, if it conveys the writer's meaning is correct. Even Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker, which almost gave me a migraine until something clicked about forty pages into the book. Unfortunately, a great number of writers will use the wrong word when describing something and violate this rule, because they aren't being clear. Far too many people use their thesaurus without their dictionary. To illustrate the Art not science point. I had a recent discussion with someone on the dreaded double negative, the bane of every school teacher. I pointed out that a double negative is merely the equivalent of the word "very". It just stresses the other negative, rather than negating it. If English were math, then it would reverse the meaning, but since there is no confusion as to the utterer's meaning, it is merely stressing the negative. It is merely the equivalent of the multiple exclamation point in the average Twilight reader's answer.
2015-08-11 05:23:45 UTC
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What is an artistic endeavor? Science endeavor?
2016-03-15 09:42:46 UTC
I think in order to break the rules of English or language for the sake of art you need to know the rules and understand the changes you are making and have a more than reasonable understanding of the possible ramifications of your act. Know that how you opt to use language directly reflects the tone you are setting in your work. It addressing the audience and a mood. It is even reflective of your characters and the world that you the writer have created for them. This holds true for school, journalism, articles, essays and even letters. There is 'right' and 'wrong' ways to handle the language however it can be done beautifully and convincingly if the writer takes care and is aware of the risk they are taking with the language. Again they have to have a deeper understanding of words, linguistics and applications of the language in order for words to have the weight that they are meant to carry. Often the origin of words give them a clearer meaning, double meaning and change the view of the story. So I was always taught that before deciding to break the rules know the rules, understand them and then break them with purpose. And if a writer does it well, no one will even notice. Not that's art. Off of the top of my head I can't recall the great authors I've enjoyed except Shakespeare was a master wordsmith. Comedy was often interwoven with heady subjects and colorful language that was shocking when reading deep into it but on the surface were nothing more than words. Philosophers were also writers of some of the most double worded work. Plato, Aristotle. The author of Everyman. I enjoy Keroac who at first was a confusing read until studying closely the interwoven messages and underlying message the way he manipulated words. Vonnegurt was another who played with words to witty end. J...
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