10/17/2011

Apollinian art to be a style of art that seems to focus on dream imagery. The images from dreams one sees is a subconscious mixture of the things people dwell on most and is representative of subconscious thoughts or ideas that one has that is put into a physical example (images), this applies to even just dreams in general as well. Dionysian, in comparison with Apollinian, is more of an abstract or, in a sense, more unpredictable, focusing on abstracts such as music. Music's emotions are never solid or correct, or incorrect for that matter: everyone hears a piece of music differently. One person may think a song is happy, while another person focusing on a different aspect of the same piece says that it is said. This makes Dionysian art very "mold-able" to what a person wants to hear or feel, compared to a specific image from one's dreams, which though may also have differing opinions when it comes to it's meaning or mood for outsiders.