One of my favorite banjo solos is in this video: (Gimme Some of That) Ol’ Atonal Music—Merle Hazard feat. Alison Brown . It’s extremely relevant to the post, as well—making the point that there are multiple levels to art appreciation. The video makes the distiction between emotion and thinking, or heart and brain, but your distinction about timeframes and types of impact (immediate pleasure vs changing/improving future interpretations of experiences) is valid as well.
That said, I’m not sure that it’s the art which contains the differences, so much as the audience and what someone is putting into the experience of the art. Ok, both—some art supports more layers than others.
One of my favorite banjo solos is in this video: (Gimme Some of That) Ol’ Atonal Music—Merle Hazard feat. Alison Brown . It’s extremely relevant to the post, as well—making the point that there are multiple levels to art appreciation. The video makes the distiction between emotion and thinking, or heart and brain, but your distinction about timeframes and types of impact (immediate pleasure vs changing/improving future interpretations of experiences) is valid as well.
That said, I’m not sure that it’s the art which contains the differences, so much as the audience and what someone is putting into the experience of the art. Ok, both—some art supports more layers than others.