Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Aesthetic Enjoyment

  Art is the imposing of pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
Alfred North Whitehead,
           
                  The primary purpose of all art forms, whether it’s music, literature, or the visual arts, is to say something to the outside world; in other words, to make a personal thought, a striking idea, an inner emotion perceptible to other people’s senses in such a way that there is no uncertainty about the maker’s intentions. This is why hex signs on barns and other structures has and is so very fascinating. They are uniquely an American art form and best know work of the German and Pennsylvania Dutch communities. It is with these signs that farmers sought the fortune of earth, wind, sun, and rain, favorable to the farming communities in which they lived. It seems that the rest of us are benefactors of the beauty and history of the unique and compelling designs that have originated from the cultures that make American a truly amazing place to live. The above image was taken on a beautiful fall afternoon in Madison County.

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