Destruction and Creativeness

[heslopian]

I believe pain can be made beautiful through the expression of it in music, poetry etc. That, I like to think, is the crux of my aesthetic. It's why I love Anne Sexton's work. The stuff of her poems was abortion, abuse, suicide and preriods, yet the simple fact of those things I don't find beautiful. Mengele pinning a child's eyeball to a notice board (which he apparently once did) isn't beautiful, and it isn't art, regardless what anyone says, I believe. Art is indeed subjective, but what Mengele did isn't art, like cutting yourself isn't art. Art, as defined by Wikipedia (in an article I assume was written by those with some expertise) is "the product or process of deliberately arranging items (often with symbolic significance) in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect". Mengele's actions affect my emotions only in a negative sense, repulsing and disgusting me to no useful end. Anyone who reacts otherwise to atrocities such as the Holocaust and considers them art is in my opinion a maniac. The kind of person who'd kidnap and torture a child to death in his basement then call it art. The Bradys and Hindleys of the world.
I know I don't have to take your suggestion but I like it very much, Aish, and may implement it at some point so I can improve my work