Does the artist present us with opposites or does he give us a something manifold?
Ascending art represents the manifold that the artist has tapped into (think Tarkovsky and Fellini and the world they give us). Descending art is more interesting in a certain sense because it offers to a riddle to be solved, why can't the artist overcome the contrasts he presents us (don't say the world is really that way because there is always a higer perspective from which the elements can synthesize). In this way art imitates life because the average person who is sick is more interesting than the healthy person who is the exception (though this value hardly redeems them in comparison).
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- “The historical sense (or the capacity for quickly guessing the order of rank of the valuations according to which a people, a society, a human being has lived; the ‘divinatory instinct’ for the relations of these valuations, for the relation of the authority of values to the authority of active forces)... has come to us in the wake of that enchanting and mad semi-barbarism into which Europe had been plunged by the democratic mingling of the classes and races: only the nineteenth century knows this taste, as its sixth sense.... ‘historical sense’ almost means the sense and instinct for everything, the taste and tongue for everything- which immediately proves it to be an ignoble sense... a dissatisfaction with what is one’s own, and admiration for what is foreign” -Nietzsche