[MD] Art as Experience

[Khaled Alkotob]

> [Arlo]
> I think they would appreciate art if they experienced it period. 
> This gets back to the whole ZMM thing. "Art" has become a frivolous
word, applied 
> to things hanging in museums, and divorced for being a meaningful part
of 
> everyday experience. The mechanic who approaches his motorcycle with
the eyes 
> and heart of a craftsman, will develop the same appreciation for
art-experience 
> as someone who studies how to paint or chisel marble statues. "Art" is 
> NOT an elective to be applied like syrup over the syllabus (I'm not 
> suggesting you imply this), "art" is an integral part of the experience
of math, 
> poetry, cookery, rhetoric, fixing motorcycles, building bridges and
raking 
> leaves. It is the "right way" of doing anything, that exhibits the
beauty, 
> harmony and rhythm of existence.

[Khaled]
Arlo

So would you say that once you have been told to see the 'green flash' as
the sun sets you would tend to notice such nuances in other things too,
or do you think that you have to be told about each green flash as it
relates to its subject.

To put it in another way, if you get trained to appreciate the nuance in
one discipline, that training carries over to other disciplines?