What Kind of Art Moves You?

Here’s a question for all of you to answer: What kind (or kinds) of art moves you? And why does it do that? What are you passionate about? What stuff do you read/see/hear that makes you understand something deeper? You get the idea. I had been thinking of how I love music and writing. Naturally, I wondered what other people liked. So I thought I’d start a little conversation about it on my blog.

And to start off, here’s mine.

First and foremost, I’m a music guy. I think music is the best art form on the planet! Anything from John Williams to Kutless will get me excited. I feel like music is a universal expression (any human can understand a song). Every culture has it. Also, merging that universal aspect (i.e. the non-lingual portion) with poetic words can express meaning or revelation better than anything.

That said, reading a book still gets me. A great storyteller can capture my imagination and send it off to places I never knew to look for. Movies apply here too. I love Star Wars (all six!) for its story. It’s an epic, and it deals with deep human emotions. Babylon 5 also has that kind of story (although I’m only through season 2).