The importance of the artists intentions in beautiful creation

When the artist’s intentions are aimed at the discovery of what is ultimately good, or true, and there is an openness to change, and a receptiveness to learning.  This is what for me makes something beautiful.  In a presentation by Claire Rielley on the art in the album Darkside of the Moon by Pink Floyd, she touched on how the album was meant to reach out to those who feel overwhelmed with the enormity of life, and battle dark feelings of sorrow, sadness and confusion.  Claire referenced Leo Tolstoy’s belief that art is “communication of feeling”.  The band was seeking to communicate these pure emotions of darkness in the hopes that people might gain some understanding of their own darkness by listening and relating to the emotions in the album.  This communication of feeling is especially powerful in art and seems to be something essential for human life.  Art seems to be able to reach and inspire people when they feel like other forms of communication don’t encompass how they feel.  Perhaps this is because art is the attempt to see deeper, and share this vision of beauty that we can’t always tap into.  This “call” to recreate and communicate our feelings, even when we know it can’t possibly be done, but must try anyway, has been a recurring theme in the group discussions about beauty and art.