Selasa, 14 Oktober 2008

What is art?

Ok. Art is wonderful. art is interesting. art is ( arrrgh ) educational. Great adjectives but what exactly is art?.



Now does that definition really help you understand what art means? Probably not. Welcome to the problem. Art is subjective, which means its definition changes depending on who experiencing it, so virtually any definition for art has to use words that are subjective .

Words and phrases like "beautiful", "appealing', and "more than ordinary significance" mean many things to many people, and often mean different things. This problem of defining art has plagued society for centuries. ( In fact, there is a whole arm of philosophy, called "aesthetics", dedicated just to debating what is and is not beautiful.)

One more problem in defining art is the emotional aspect of it . In its simplest form, art is really just another form of communication. But usually what an artist is trying to communicate is a feeling-the words to a song or the colors in a picture have been combined to bring about an emotional reaction in the audience. And no all artist are aiming at bringing out warm and fuzzy feelings! Some artist want their art to make you angry or sad...

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