Response to Lacey Benter's post on Abstract Art, Abstract Music, and Abstract Religion

I like your comparison of Beethoven's music to Polloc's art. The idea of expression through a creative medium is very appealing, since there are things that it seems cannot be expressed any other way. Beethoven and Polloc must then have been extremely imaginative people to have emotions or ideas that could not be expressed with words or action. What is fortunate for us is that they were very talented at finding a way to express themselves in the medium of their choice, so that their audience could try to make their own interpretation or comprehend the message/emotion behind the art. Another artist that I can think of who shares this same talent is Bach with the organ. He creates patterns within his music in which eventually the listener becomes lost in with his own thoughts, in order to reflect about life. Most of Bach's music was composed for church mass in his time, and perhaps this was the intention behind much of his work.