Expressional art cannot communicate unless, as Dr. Van Til often observed, it denies its own philosophy and borrows the artistic philosophy of the Christian. Having no objective standard, it is incapable of maintaining one internally or artistically. By its radical subjectivity it denies communication in favor of expression and thus cannot maintain continuity. Humanistic art expresses. Communicative art assumes order.
Expressional art denies it.
The former is a dynamic, but ordered, assembly of musical components, the latter a random collection of noise. Contemporary music is steadily abandoning the use of musical principles, like rhythm and harmony, in its relentless plunge toward total autonomous expression. Conclusion Christians should not casually adopt the philosophy of expression, but should recognize it as an intrusion of the unbelieving world on the arts. Art in its true form is not meant to be an expression of the artist, but a glorification of God. In his perversion man uses it in his attempt to be his own god, expressing the wickedness bound up in his heart.