subject: Emotion in Modern Art: Cause or Effect? [print this page] Perhaps you might object to the way I phrased the original question. Maybe you think that emotion is both a cause of modern art, as well as an effect of looking at it, and that it would be a mistake to make such a categorical distinction. I wouldn't argue with you. There are ample reasons to see things this way. In fact, given our human nature, it would be pretty difficult to separate the two. Modern art is such a wonderful thing because it both rises from emotion, as well as gives rise to emotions in the viewer. It is both cause and effect.
