Throughout the past week we have analyzed an excerpt (Art as Communication) from Leo Tolstoy's book "What Is Art", in which his personal ideas and opinions of defining art are expressed. So far I have enjoyed Tolstoy and hope to read more of his works in the near future because anyone who is a pacifist will always be accepted by positive people in everyday society. But the question that I have been pondering in the past week is one that exists in the Question and Answers. Does Art have to contain only one specific emotion to be successful? This question can go either way because I believe that a specific emotion (primary) more or less is an embrella for other emotions (secondary). For example, fear is more of a primary emotion and joy, sadness, and anger are secondary emotions because they are the bi products of the given emotion. But whenever I analyze a specific object of art there are a wide collage of emotions being expressed at the moment, just not being limited to only one singular emotion such as in Vincent Van Gogh's famous painiting "The Starry Night". But if anyone takes a good look at this painting to analyze the masterpiece, its is obvious that multiple emotions are being expressed. Specifically the painting portrays a small European village with a dark gloomy structure towering over but on the other side, the moon is enlightening the villlage to neutralize the darkness. Honestly the meaning of the masterpeice can be complex, simple, or neither. However the masterpiece, more or less illustrates Van Gogh's state of mind while expressing his emotions pictorally, and this is evidence that can either prove or reject Tolstoy's philosophy of art. But mainly I would like some feedback from anyone who agrees or disagrees with my theory and if possible does anyone also feel that Tolstoy knew of the intentionality thesis before he wrote this book?
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