A comparison of global fine
arts including visual, aural and literary art, is becoming increasingly
exciting and compelling because of the vast scope of the Internet. It becomes increasingly obvious that there is more to discover with respect to
their inter-relationship, partly because they function independently, as well
as have a complementary relationship.
The Department
of Comparative Arts at Aoyama
Gakuin University (AGU) in Japan,
offers “fine art, music, performing and visual arts
in both the East and West” in
a “cross-disciplinary approach”.
They suggest that “in
the age of uncertainty which
the boundaries between arts are becoming increasingly ambiguous, comparative
analysis between the modes of visual, aural, and literary representation and
humanistic scholarship can be interdependent and complementary in order to
illuminate the nature of the arts.”
One must suggest that the fine
arts as a whole, intrigue the five senses which include visual and auditory
senses, taste, touch and smell, as well as extrasensory perception, often regarded as the sixth sense. Because a person is a whole, what affects one
sense may affect the other senses, either knowingly or unknowingly.
Any kind of stimulus can
trigger a response of the senses including visual, aural and literary stimuli. For
example, artwork as a visual stimulus can inspire a musician to write a piece
of music. This music becomes an aural or auditory stimulus to trigger
inspiration for a literary work like poetry.
An aural stimulus or an
auditory sound, like the song of a bird, may lead to the creation or writing of
a new play with accompanying music performed in the future. Any work, such as a
book written by a literary artist, may inspire a visual artist to create a
wonderful, new painting to which an artistic singer responds to as a
ballad.
Defining what happens with
taste, touch and smell appears less apparent, but one must argue that a picture
of a delicious meal, touching something like the soft skin of a peach or
smelling a fragrant aroma from a flower can lead to various forms of artistic
expression. Perhaps in many ways, extrasensory perception serves to unite the
senses.
In reality, there is a
lot to learn about how the senses interact together, as well as in terms of
visual, aural and literary art. Maybe there is an undiscovered, distinct
relationship between inspiration and extrasensory perception?
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