Is art still art if it makes you feel furious?
disgusted? or just plain offended?
Perhaps it could make you feel depressed
and sad and maybe a little lonely.
I have always had a morbid fascination with the macabre. Stories. Paintings. Films. You name it. I've watched Faces of Death several times before I was 15. Read and listened to countless ghost stories and horror novels. I have even scoured Deviant Art and other sites like it for hours for twisted depictions of the most morbid art I could find.
Though, this is not to say I can't appreciate beauty as well. In fact I feel it allows me to appreciate it even more than I would otherwise.
In my opinion, art is meant to instill emotions into people regardless of what emotions those are, or how you may feel about those emotions. I like being scared. I like being disgusted. I like being happy. I like being sad (sometimes)...
I don't think people should shy away from certain emotions simply because they don't like them; as long as they don't be too excessive. Like all good things, you can easily have too much. So I challenge you to scare yourself. to disgust yourself. and to weep from whatever makes you sad.
...You'll feel better in the morning
