The classical period Greeks worshiped two Gods by the names of Apollo
and Dionysus. Apollo was the Sun God. His scope involved reason,
dreams, males, homosexuality, goals, logic, structure, craft, and making
things. Dionysus (later known as Bacchus by the Romans) gender-blending, trees, seduction, unrestrained passion, and more less
sunny things.
The first thing to understand is that they
are not mutually exclusive in an artist or work of art. They interleave
and overlay. Frederich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, wrote about this in great detail in a book titled The Birth of Tragedy, published in 1872.
He thought that the friction between the two was one of the great
wellsprings of psychic energy for poetry, drama and the arts.The
Apollonian emphasizes individuality, the Dionysian a sense of unity -- not
just with others of one's own kind, but ultimately with all things.
This dichotomy represents two types of energy that are at play in everything human, including art.
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