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ART
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essence
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process
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form
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AoA part eleven: Integrity
"Integrity" is the amount of "wholeness" of the work. It is how well it works with itself, how well the component parts are integrated.
Much of the rules of art are concerned with this. Like "blue does not go with green". Or "don't mix past tense with present tense in the same paragraph". Or "don't mix horns with guitars". Whatever. These are all more or less useable observations regarding the cruder parts of Integrity. It take some training to judge integrity well, which is why they say that you have to become a master before you can get away with breaking the rules. As a very experienced driver, you can get away with driving fast with one hand on the steering wheel, as a beginning driver you better keep both your hands on it at all times.
Integrity may be impossible to get perfect. If it ever became perfect, you might also have a perfectly boring work of art. |