art

My fella and I watched an old movie a couple weeks ago about Michelangelo starring Charlton Heston called, The Agony and the Ecstasy. It was alright. This past weekend we started watching the Vincent Van Gogh movie called, Lust for Life, starring Kirk Douglas. We didn't watch the whole thing. Van Gogh was kind of a nut. Anyway, there was a line in the movie where another character asked Van Gogh what he wanted to do. He said, I want to paint something that moves people and inspires them. He wanted people to look at his painting and think, he felt deeply and tenderly.

Have you ever been moved by art? Excluding music/theater/movies. I mean, art...a painting, a drawing, a sculpture. What does it mean, to be moved by art? I don't think I've ever been "moved." Mostly when I see art, I'm captivated by that person's talent. It never has to do with the subject of the painting. Is that weird? But I've never laughed or cried or felt a personal connection, to art.