Tag: true art
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True Art is Flawed Redux – C.S. Lewis on Imperfect Art
I recently looked back on my blog post, True Art is Flawed, and then I came across this quote from C.S. Lewis about Hamlet. And it’s another great example of what I’m trying to say. Lewis describes the literary debate over whether Hamlet is a good play, and whether it is flawed or whether Shakespeare…
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Broken Genius: True Art is Flawed
Well, that’s pretty obvious, you might say. Nothing in this world is perfect, so why should we expect any piece of art to be? Yet you point out faults in something that everyone accepts as ‘genius,’ and people wonder who you are to criticize the work of such a great artist. This is despite the…
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