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日本語訳は下方にあります。 --- METHOD NO. 23 (JUNE 1, 2003) Email-Bulletin "METHOD" is a free monthly on "Method Painting, Method Poem, Method Music (Methodicist Manifesto)." Publishers are three Japanese artists, Hideki Nakazawa, a (visual) artist, Shigeru Matsui, a poet, and Masahiro Miwa, a composer. You can read the manifestos of Methodicism at http://aloalo.co.jp/nakazawa/method/ This issue, METHOD NO. 23, carries a text by Shigeru Matsui and a web piece by Masahiro Miwa, and word and info by the three Methodicists. >>>METHODICIST'S TEXT OF THIS MONTH: The Measure of the True Joy by Shigeru Matsui, poet As a Methodicist, I do the appreciation of art on the basis whether a work has logical inevitability or not. According to the definition of Methodicist Manifesto, I perceive a painting how a colored plane has logical inevitability, a poem how the row of letters has logical inevitability, and music how vibrating time has logical inevitability. After the logical inevitability got the measure of my appreciation, I often came to evaluate the work low which I had felt pleasant, and high which I had felt tedious physiologically before. The value judgment of "Method" does not insert one's taste into a work. That is natural because the Methodicism requests stoicism and discipline. In order for Methodicists to obtain true joy, physiological pleasure is not only unnecessary but also harmful. We are able to give absolute evaluation to a work by eliminating physiological pleasure. This can be called the measure of the true joy independent of physiology. I am dealing with Ballet as an example. "The Swan Lake" and "The Sleeping Beauty" are famous ballets. I liked "The Swan Lake" as my taste better than "The Sleeping Beauty." Because whichever productions of "The Swan Lake" evoked physiological pleasure. On the other hand, "The Sleeping Beauty" was tedious to physiological feeling. However, the work that offers the true joy suited to the Methodicism is "The Sleeping Beauty." Ballet is the art that consists of dancing, a tale, and music. I, as a Methodicist, would like to esteem the work in which the logical inevitability exists among elements. We can recognize the logical inevitability in "The Sleeping Beauty" as followings. Many works of the Romantic ballet were arbitrarily formed by dancing, a tale, and existent music in the first half of the 19th century. On the other hand, the Classical ballet, completed by Marius Petipa in the second half of the 19th century, arranged each
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