10 Jul '20 21:45>1 edit
@divegeester saidSounds like you've never actually experienced having a creative art.
I certainly don’t see “art as the gestalt of all knowledge and understanding” but then I’m not easily impressed by any of it, from any era, or any genre. I see science as the primary source of knowledge and Christ as the source of all understanding.
I’m not even clear what you mean by art being the gestalt of all knowledge and understanding. To me it reads like something pretentious which you’ve picked up from somewhere.
People counter this with some kind of all-encompassing "I know what I like, and that ain't it."
Calling someone else's feeling of what art means to them "pretentious" just because YOU don't feel it, and presumably never will, is quite arrogant, as well as ignorant.
Mozart, a true genius, was just as well-rooted in the fabric of the universe as Einstein, just in a different way. Same goes for Rembrandt, Da Vinci or Michelangelo. Or Shakespeare.
Edit: Take some Humanities courses. If they don't put you to sleep, you might learn something, something out of your well-worn rut.