Substance Without Presentation
by Doug TenNapelAmadeus is the best movie ever made. It’s not up for debate. Okay, maybe it’s almost as good as Jaws. We’ll throw in Star Wars, Raising Arizona, 300, Aliens and Raiders above it too.
There are good ideas rolling around in Amadeus but none more central than the idea that being a good artist has nothing to do with virtue. Hitler appreciated the arts, Maxfield Parrish screwed his models, and the best writers are drunk, emotional narcissists. I hope I didn’t miss anyone. Anyways, being correct on any position does jack for one’s artistic ability.
F. Murray Abraham plays Salieri, a jealous Vienese court composer convinced that by remaining chaste to God he should be able to write music that will transcend his own death. Salieri knows his own music is just acceptable so that when he hears the music of Mozart he assumes the composer must be a man of great portence and stature. To Salieri’s horror, his anger at God is doubled when he finds Mozart to be a foul twit.
I’ve been a religious man for a great deal of my life and an artist even longer. I get comments from some folks that my work is, “a great gift.” I don’t know exactly what we mean by that, but even as I study the great gifts in the Bible, art is never mentioned. Given the artists I’ve known it’s no wonder. Perhaps my desire to do art is a gift, because I can never explain why I’m compelled to draw every day. I draw no matter if there’s money in it or not. I just plain dig it. So my appetite may have been set by God, but my talent is not. It’s a skill that comes from a lot of friggin’ hard work.
If we’re using the phrase “gift” in the traditional context, supernatural gifts from God would arrive in a complete package. God doesn’t make junk, so why do I look at my sketchbooks from high school and see sucky art? Gifts can’t be earned. Crafts can only be earned. Gifts are free or they’re no gift at all. So if I got a gift to draw-act-write-sing-speak it should come as a complete, miraculous package…and it never does. Not a freebie. It’s a skill.
I could have saved Salieri a lot of anguish, but he’s dead. Luckily, we’re still alive to ponder the tie between our character and our creation. Nobody seems to be as confused as my fellow Christians, Republicans and the people behind those sucky Iraq movies. I know one hundred Christians in the arts, and many think that their correct position is the ticket to getting a project made. Wrong. Lefties assume that having the correct position allows them to make sloppy, lazy, caricatures of conservatives and their ideology. Finally, Republicans think having the right position gives them permission to remain unable to articulate an argument and sport hair-styles that look like motorcycle helmets.
One of President Bush’s clear faults was that he rarely made a public case for any of his administration’s positions. Bush and Cheney are two of my heroes (You hear that? That’s the sound of me losing three deals in Hollywood just now) but they aren’t my heroes of communication.
While we have a rich history of fine Christian content in the past, it’s the exception today. The rule is for Christian art to be mediocre. We have a high opinion of our correct position but place form a little too far down the ladder from function. There is beauty and truth to be found in a story well told and a position well argued. Look at President Obama. This is a man who won an election purely on form, eloquent sound bites, a snappy suit and backlit with a halo. I would never advocate emptying our heads to dance with Ellen, but charisma is a valuable tool in politics, and we’ll need access to every tool possible to defeat the Democrat party and their media juggernaut.
I don’t think art is just packaging either. It’s not a skin we stretch over an ideology. The artful package is also a kind of an end unto itself. It’s not just a sham or the beauty that is only skin deep. I didn’t spend most of my life drawing to make cute pictures. I draw because there is a wonder to providing an elegant vessel to carry our stories to each other. In fact, being a good artist is no different than being a good Christian or a good politician, since these are all communicative genres that benefit from compelling presentation.
The great artists I’ve known personally or studied with were consumed by their craft. They threw themselves into the study of form, presentation, manipulation of materials and practiced daily. I think my camp would do well in showing a little more respect for the art of presentation because it’s not a gift.
Since it’s not a gift we should continue to work on the craft or assume our role as the patron saint of mediocrity and bad hair.
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Yeah… DM's right it's a gift. I give my kids gifts they don't really earn — I just love them. They get the gift — they then have to USE the gift, sometimes through putting it together or practice like a bike or the piano we bought.
Art in the Bible… go back and read Numbers about the design of the Ark of the Covenant and in Chronicles about the design of Solomon's Temple. Gold work, sculptures, paintings/frescoes, design and architecture. That place was beautifully designed and appointed by art — why? To glorify God. He wanted his temple to be beautiful.
Beauty has a moral component, whether the artist realizes it or not.
Republicans or conservatives have generally just assumed traditional values were so obvious that they just were. Never defended or justified. Norman Rockwell was able to visually capture it. He has been consistently berated for not really being an artist, i think in part because of his subjects. Discrediting the messenger, and let the message be ignored.
Bush failed to fight back. Newt Gingrich and Tom Delay were left to fend for themselves. Again, destroy the messenger, ignore the message. They have tried to destroy Sarah Palin the same way. We shall see how that turns out, but we must defend and justify our culture and each other.
I think there is something in the psyche of democrats and republicans to consider. democrats seek results through group action, republicans tend toward more individual effort. Its hard to improve your skill if its killed in infancy and never able to grow.
Rational thought has been replaced by slogans, logos and pictures. e
Usually the language about a talent being a gift, no matter how much effort went into perfecting it, is simply a linguistic reminder to avoid the sin of pride. People really aren’t born with the same potential. It’s right to thank God.
And when it means more than that, it’s probably a subconscious way of excusing yourself for not being able to sing, or draw, or create.
Doctrinally a “gift” is a spiritual gift that is, actually, supernatural. And no, that’s NOT art.
More love for “Raising Arizona” — thank you!
Scott – My definition of an artist – like that of a genius – is a lot more restrictive than the popular culture. Today, the term "genius" has been so diluted as to mean anyone with a 160 IQ.
You bring an interesting point about the Hollywood culture today and my interpretation of what an artist should be.
The fact that Hollywood has turned off at least half their potential audience – should that be interpreted as artistic achievement because they (producers, writers, directors) "say what they want" and ignore a sizable percentage of their audience?
Or do they simply wish to make political statements (connecting with their blue audience)?
If they were equally critical at times of left politics a case could be made that they are true artists but they are simply trying to appeal to half the country. Or perhaps more accurately in their world there is no red America.
When a diVinci made some of his drawings – or Mozart some compositions – I am sure that many of their contemporaries were confused as to the meaning…
But then because an artist has commercial success should that held against him?
Certainly one should consider a Hemingway as an artist because of the way he was able to create such powerful imagery with relatively simple sentences. (as a corollary I have always felt that an "expert" in any field who cannot describe what he does in simple words to a layman – doesn't fully know his own discipline) If they have to dazzle you with techno-babble they don't really know their own discipline thoroughly – or it really isn't that difficult and they want the listener to believe otherwise.
In short I have no easy answer nor explanation to your question – there are true artists today just as there have always been – but how to differentiate them from the poseurs who want to call themselves artists isn't a simple task.
You look at a Picasso – I still don't "get" many of his paintings – one would have to think that he made many of them not in the hopes that they would sell – but from a desire within him. I am sure that in the 1930s to 1950s others were equally perplexed at his work.
And yet others "get" him and his paintings are worth millions.
And Jackson Pollack? I don't know what to think about him
Certainly I am not the arbitrator of who should be properly considered an artist – but only to offer my own thoughts.
And even a true artist has to at least think of his potential audience – or starve!
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ScottDS – February 8th, 2009 at 7:32 pm
Bill Brandt – you make an interesting point. However, your sentence:
“In writing this I have come to believe that a true artist makes his creations without regard to the current popular tastes – he makes them from within without worry whether the audience will appreciate them.”
How would one reconcile this with movies today? One of the common complaints here is that Hollywood is out of touch with mainstream America, yet these two ideas seem to contradict each other.
Or is it that the true artist is in tune with his audience and doesn’t have to worry about being out of touch?
I’m not trying to start anything. As usual, I’m genuinely curious. If I have a story but I don’t think anyone will be interested, does that mean it’s a story not worth telling?
This is a good article to ponder. What has happened to my beautiful country?And art, and music…these beautiful things have been replaced with hope we can believe in.Yeah, right. I suspect that if Patrick Henry were to show up on most American doorsteps, the first question he would be asked was, “What did you bring me?”
“The Deed of Paksenarrion” was by Elizabeth Moon.
An excellent set of books, BTW. Some of the plot points are hackneyed, but they’re all approached in ways that make them new and bracing.
On the one hand, Amadeus was a very fun movie and the source of one of my favorite segues (the scolding turning into an aria from “The Magic Flute”).
On the other hand, it was pretty much historical slander against Mozart, based on a couple of dirty letters he sent to his sister and ignoring the next decade or so of his life.
And on … a foot, I guess, That Guy with the Glasses did a five-second version of Amadeus that had me in stitches. It’s a toss-up, I guess.
Those who practice “art and music” are hangers on. They only have a living because millions of others actually make a living by making and selling things people really need. Wait for the depression. The first to go will be artists, musicians and restraunteurs. When people can only afford the “neccesities” the frivolous things go by the wayside.
If your in the frivolous business, you will suffer first.
Doug, what a thought-provoking piece. I believe that the world is full of Salieris, who either believe themselves or society believes to be artists that transcend time. I believe to be a true artist one must check their ego at the door and create out of a sense of inner compulsion, not something that may “sell”.
I have often wondered in our pop-culture world how many will be listening to the music of the Stones, Beatles, et. al. in the 23rd century – and yet Beetoven and Mozart persist. Then too there are no princes or kings to finance a Beethoven today.
Two scenes of Amadeus remain with me after seeing it years ago: One of them pouring the lime on his body in an unmarked grave and second his making fun of Salieri with a bit of, ugh, flatulence.
In writing this I have come to believe that a true artist makes his creations without regard to the current popular tastes – he makes them from within without worry whether the audience will appreciate them.
I agree with you on George Bush – for the life of me I could never understand why he chose to be a Pinata instead of defending his positions.
I think the point may be lost here…
Conservatism has developed a tendency toward a grim utilitarianism. Finance, prosperity, and order. But always packaged in a plain cardboard box, delivered with all the aplomb of a filling a mailbox.
The great Republican leaders have always stood above this. They understood that there were things more important than a dollar bill. Liberty, honor, glory…things not to be bought with money, but only with the Churchillian commodities of blood, toil, tears, and sweat. And these leaders spoke of these matters with rhetoric that resonates through the ages. Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Reagan were not the prettiest of men…but they did not hesitate to speak of greatness in the best terms they knew how.
And did not hesitate to study the arts of rhetoric. It’s a subject we might want to study again.
OK, since SOMEBODY has to say it…
Salieri was hardly neurotic, or incompetent, or mediocre, or egotistical.
Indeed, at the time, the man actually OUTSHONE his younger rival, and was the Kappelmeister of the Holy Roman Empire. However, since Mozart’s tragic death and the scandal surrounding it, Salieri has largely gotten a bad rap.
And it is tragic to say that “Amadeus” actually was an IMPROVEMENT in regards to his presentation as opposed to the norm.
There. I had to say it.
Once upon a time art was great because Christian artists realized that they were created in the image of God and that all of Creation was created for the glory of God but fallen.
Their goal was use the creativity that they inherited from God to create beauty in this fallen world to glorify Him and to uplift man.
Modern secular art has abandoned this notion and focuses on eliciting emotion, any emotion, even disgust or anger.
Modern Christian art often apes its secular counterpart, surrendering creativity for acceptance.
president bush had no faults. this is an outrage!!!
Wonderful post, Doug. Being right means little without developing excellence in the skill of presentation. May we follow in your fine example here.
You write:
“even as I study the great gifts in the Bible, art is never mentioned.”
Let me refresh your memory:
Exodus 31 has the first record of artists filled with the Holy Spirit
1 Then the LORD said to Moses,
2 “See, I have chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah,
3 and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with skill, ability and knowledge in all kinds of crafts-
4 to make artistic designs for work in gold, silver and bronze,
5 to cut and set stones, to work in wood, and to engage in all kinds of craftsmanship.
6 Moreover, I have appointed Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, to help him. Also I have given skill to all the craftsmen to make everything I have commanded you:
7 the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the Testimony with the atonement cover on it, and all the other furnishings of the tent-
8 the table and its articles, the pure gold lampstand and all its accessories, the altar of incense,
9 the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, the basin with its stand-
10 and also the woven garments, both the sacred garments for Aaron the priest and the garments for his sons when they serve as priests,
11 and the anointing oil and fragrant incense for the Holy Place. They are to make them just as I commanded you.”
This repeated in Exodus 35.
Here we come face to face withe fact that God gives artisans and artists His Spirit to empower and create.
We are called to create with excellence, “with skill, ability and knowledge.”
Let that be our rallying cry.
Doug, I think you are on balance wrong and “Amadeus” is on balance wrong.
To make a wonderful work of art one must have talent. But that is not enough. Talent alone gets one nothing.
What one must have, and every successful master artist in their field has it, is dedication, and focus. It requires the ability to work long hours at a stretch, intensely focused on a task and to continue to do so sometimes for years.
This is not strictly a moral component, but it sidles up next to one.
Dissolute writers like say, Dylan Thomas or F. Scott Fitzgerald (who thought a liter of Vodka was a convenient, single serve size) tried to unlock creativity through boozing it up (or drugging it up for other artists) and ended up failures because whatever creativity and connections they unearthed, they were unable to focus diligently to create anything interesting. It’s fascinating, the only real drug of use to an artist is caffeine. Allowing intense focus and concentration. Along with a tolerance for drudgery.
I’ve know a few extremely talented musicians, writers, and photographers, true artists all, and what stands out among all of them, is their ability to focus so intently, sometimes for years.
A dissolute clown as Mozart is portrayed cannot compose so much great Opera. Da Vinci was known for his ability to focus intently, as was Ansel Adams, or Weegie, or Duke Ellington. What accounts for the idea that Artists are often tortured freaks is that a lot of people with talent and emotional turbulence tend to congregate to art in the distracting or calming process of creation. Requiring intense focus that stills (for a while) emotional turbulence. But most accomplished artists are rock-solid emotionally — they have to be in order to focus for often, decades. Blake labored for years to write “Jerusalem.” Probably the most epic Christian poem ever written.
The ability to do sustained work does not require a person be “good” in the conventionally Christian sense, but it does correlate highly with emotional and physical disclipline, an ordered mind, a positive attitude towards creating and working, a minimal ability to work alongside others, and so on that are considered the mark of a middle class man or woman. Not every artist will fall into these categories but enough will that the real picture of an artist will be:
*Highly disciplined, in his/her work at least. Works on the art/project/etc. nearly every day.
*Finds emotional satisfaction and achievement through completing artistic works.
*Ability to work alongside others in creating works.
*Even temperament, no wild mood swings.
*Optmistic about the chances of finishing most works.
*Conventional if boring family life provides emotional support.
This by the way is why most films about artists are terrible. The real process of creation which every artist knows, is boring. It’s like watching paint dry. A guy or gal thinking a lot, trying this, that, the other technique, to get across the goal, which is often very clear but highly abstracted and not yet physical. A film about Mark Twain writing is not particularly interesting. Stuff about his adventures in life … or Van Gogh cutting off his ear, that’s interesting. But has little to do with art. “Lust for Life” with Kirk Douglas is bunk … 99.99% of art is pure abstract thinking plus drudgery.
Most great musicians are like Branford Marsalis, Louis Armstrong, or Duke Ellington than Jim Morrison or Jimi Hendrix. Most great painters are like Thomas Eakins or Claude Monet than Theo Van Gogh. Most great poets are like William Blake than like William S. Burroughs. Most great writers like Mark Twain or Arthur Conan Doyle than F Scott Fitzgerald.
Because you can’t really be much of anything without avoiding self-destruction.
A deaf composer knew who he was and what God expected him to be.
“Every real creation of art is independent, more powerful than the artist himself,
and returns to the divine through its manifestation. It is one with man only in this,
that it bears testimony to the mediation of the divine in him. ” – Beethoven
I don’t think there’s any question that artistic abilities ARE, in fact, gifts from God. The USE of those gifts are OUR responsibility, however. Mozart’s father obviously recognized the brilliant gift his son had and encouraged and nurtured it as best HIS talents allowed so it would bloom. Mozart’s works–especially at such a young age, clearly reflect that gift and Mozart Sr.’s encouragement and guidance. My own father was a VERY good, “natural” artist. He truly enjoyed drawing and, without ever having had a lesson, used to make pastel drawings of his children and frame them to give as gifts at Christmas when times were lean in the 50’s. After our mother died, my siblings and I paid for him to take instruction in oil painting (it was something he’d always wanted to do) and he got VERY good at that, too. We divided up his works after his death in 2003 and I have one proudly displayed in my den. Sadly, I did NOT inherit his talent for painting/drawing, as much as I would have liked to. What talents I may have, probably lie in being able to clearly put my thoughts down on paper, but I’ve never been “taught” to do that–other than learning common English spelling and grammar. I, too, loved Amadeus–most particularly the music, however. I don’t really CARE whether or not it was historically accurate. I wonder how many of the 50 million babies we’ve allowed to be killed since 1973 may have possessed similar “gifts.”
Finally! Someone else that understands that there is work involved with the development of a particular talent! Imagination is a gift from God, but the ability to utilize it and create works of beauty and order from a chaos of raw materials is purely a learned form that must be practiced!
Christian Art has been sorely lacking in quality on a large scale lately. Gone are the days of the Church being a great Patron and promoter of the arts, and its sad to see the state of it. However, with the lack of understanding of the difference between “Gift” and “Talent” maybe its not such a bad thing right now…
One of the great points of this piece is that you have to work, God might give you nudge, but you’ll fail if you expect everything to work out just because “God wills it”.
Too many great points here to top with anything I’ve got, but let me second David Marcoe, Mike M and Whiskey.
Particularly Mike M on the “grim utilitarianism” bogging down the Right, Whiskey’s contention that “A dissolute clown as Mozart is portrayed cannot compose so much great Opera.” And David Marcoe’s observation: “You talk about the mediocrity of Christian art today, but could that perhaps go hand-in-hand with the intellectual and spiritual decline of the Church in the West?”
That said, Doug’s still one of my preferred contributors here at Big Hollywood.
Doug,
I think an element of this “laziness” in making elequent presentations comes from the christian conservative roots, (especially evangelicals) wherein the long standing mentality is that we are all screwed anyway in the mid and long term, due to their interpretation of the “end times prophecy”, perpetuated by false prohets such as Hal Lindsey (John Hagee’s mentor).
And this is a message to the Hal Lindsey cult followers who might be lurking here… ..
for the record: Hal Lindsey IS a false prophet, because his predictions didn’t come true.
How do I know this?
By using the same Bible for reference as you do for your “end times prophecy” … any prophet who’s uttered predictions don’t come true MUST be considered a false prophet, not followed and utterly banned from consideration for any word he says or has said!!
And you might say that doesn’t negate some elements of his points.
Your wrong.
Because, you missed the point of “don’t listen to the false prophets”.
Not too mention that there are as many as four (4) different interpretations of the same composition of Bible “prophecies” that have had a “smartest false prophet in the room” interpretations for times past, ad nauseum.
I know from experience that this laziness towards excellent presentations comes from these “end times prophecies” because when I have encouraged more involvement in the political process in order to improve the conservative cause among said evangelicals, I always get this blank stare into the distance (obviously looking for the rapture) and a verbal response that goes something like this: “Well, with the end times being fulfilled as we speak, I don’t think that there is much we can do about it anyway.”
P.S.
Check out the validity of my factual statements by the responses from said evangelicals here in the comment threads.
P.P.S. I know that I’m NOT saved because I DON’T believe in the rapture.
P.P.P.S. Next question.
Funny, I didn’t see Mozart shown as “dissolute” as much as the entire society around him was portrayed as straitjacketed, primitive and small — too small to accomodate such men as Mozart.
Salieri was uniquely able to see what Mozart was capable of — but with his two feet planted firmly in that culture, his response was not one of appreciation for Mozart and his work, but of envious hatred.
That is why I have never accepted the idea that artists are innately warped or screwed up; I tend to see them as victims of the culture they are born into. Rare and heroic are those who manage to get their shields up in time to save their art and themselves before they surrender… or are destroyed.
After all, the modern-day birth rate is what, ten times more than his day (to grab a figure)? Why aren’t we seeing ten times as many Mozarts now?
P.S. I have a small disagreement with the article. Although “Amadeus” is one of my favorite movies, too, it must be pointed out that it does not present a true picture of Mozart. Patrick Kavanaugh, whom I mentioned above, also wrote a book called “Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers,” which opened my eyes to the fact that the Mozart in the movie is a bit of a caricature and doesn’t do justice to the spiritual depth and complexity of the man.
…and this is why a film like Fireproof does nothing to help the cause of Christian ideology in America. It’s still a Jesus-themed, after school special.
Will, I wouldn’t be so hard on Fireproof. The only thing worse than a bad Christian film that makes money is a good one that loses money.
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