The beauty of art lies in the riddle, the mystery it contains, in its ambiguity.
If everything was certain, evident, known, and resolved, art would not be art. It would be much closer to science, I suppose. It is the beauty of art that there can be many understatements. How wrong I was when I started to criticize deep in my mind the author of perfumes who called the new scent “The Moon.” I already wrote about it in one of the previous posts. My first thoughts were something like:
How could someone dare to name the scent “The Moon?” How could someone be so imaginative as to call the perfumes the name of Earth’s satellite?
After few seconds, I realized that someone who did it, undoubtedly, is an artist. We do not know what the smell of the Moon is. Luckily, there are people with bold imagination that they can name the scent “The Moon.” For me, in the case written above, it is the essence of the beauty of art. We do not have to know how the Earth’s satellite smells to name the earthly scent “The Moon.”
In the same case, fantasy artists did not have to know what the Moon looked like to paint, draw or describe it in their works of art. In art, there does not have to be a piece of scientific, detailed information (unless the artist works for NASA). It is the remarkable imagination that counts while creating art. Of course, there are beautiful minds among scientists, but these people have to stick to hard data while doing their work.
On the other hand, artists can freely move around everything their imagination tells them.
They can leave the riddle in their works. Scientists want to solve the mysteries of our world. Artists can give many doubts not only to scientists but to the whole of humanity. Luckily, we do not have to know the answers to all questions. The beauty of art lies in its boldness and mystery.
PS
I wrote this text on the 1st of June, 2021.
