The big question of the week has been ‘What is art’? What characters of something define it and why? There has been plenty of different views and definitions on what defines art and the more I read and saw about them the more I became convinced that there is definitely not just one overall view on art, it can be anything. As our class has seen and I have read there is a wide array of different art forms on different types of media and defining them really depends on the particular subject who is observing the particular piece of art. In high school I was extremely into photography and what ‘defines a good picture.’ What characteristics make up a legitimate photograph and why? My love for analyzing photography and attempting to define it soon branched out to analyzing films and attempting to define what makes a good film? I believe that analyzing art and questioning what it is and defining it, depend one hundred percent on the person who is viewing it. I believe that in today’s society people can do just about anything and call it art, which I think is absolutely correct. As seen in class, we’ve seen an immense amount of different types of art ranging from a $100,000 statue to be constructed in Eugene, our teacher videotaping herself doing pushups and running on a treadmill until she passes out, and a man by the name of Shepard Fairy who I believe to be an almost modern day Andy Warhol. Art completely depends on the beholder and I believe that anything done by someone ‘in the name of art’ can legitimately be considered art because even though its not art to most people, its art to the creator and to anyone else who believes that its appealing to the eye. As defined by Dictionary.com, art is “the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance.” Different people obviously view different things differently, and attempting to define and clarify what a particular thing is, especially one as vast as art, is obviously always going to be a difficult thing, one with many different opinions and views. A quote that was brought up in class today and one that I read in the book was by Ellen Dissanayake, she argues “that human societies throughout history have always displayed some form of behavior that can be called ‘art’, and that this behavior fulfills a fundamental biological and evolutionary need(pg 38).” I believe that this quote is exactly one that I am attempting to express right now. People have always made art over the course of human existence and will continue to do so until humans don’t exist. Art is beautiful in the mind of the beholder and there is always going to be an immense amount of different opinions on the subject. The mind is an interesting thing and depending on how, where, who and what someone is brought up on, those actions and what that person is taught is going to define that person and make him or her see things in whatever way it is that they see them. Art has existed in so many different forms for hundreds of centuries and like us as humans, has evolved in and developed in so many different ways.
The big question of the week has been ‘What is art’? What characters of something define it and why? There has been plenty of different views and definitions on what defines art and the more I read and saw about them the more I became convinced that there is definitely not just one overall view on art, it can be anything. As our class has seen and I have read there is a wide array of different art forms on different types of media and defining them really depends on the particular subject who is observing the particular piece of art.
ReplyDeleteIn high school I was extremely into photography and what ‘defines a good picture.’ What characteristics make up a legitimate photograph and why? My love for analyzing photography and attempting to define it soon branched out to analyzing films and attempting to define what makes a good film? I believe that analyzing art and questioning what it is and defining it, depend one hundred percent on the person who is viewing it. I believe that in today’s society people can do just about anything and call it art, which I think is absolutely correct. As seen in class, we’ve seen an immense amount of different types of art ranging from a $100,000 statue to be constructed in Eugene, our teacher videotaping herself doing pushups and running on a treadmill until she passes out, and a man by the name of Shepard Fairy who I believe to be an almost modern day Andy Warhol. Art completely depends on the beholder and I believe that anything done by someone ‘in the name of art’ can legitimately be considered art because even though its not art to most people, its art to the creator and to anyone else who believes that its appealing to the eye. As defined by Dictionary.com, art is “the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance.” Different people obviously view different things differently, and attempting to define and clarify what a particular thing is, especially one as vast as art, is obviously always going to be a difficult thing, one with many different opinions and views.
A quote that was brought up in class today and one that I read in the book was by Ellen Dissanayake, she argues “that human societies throughout history have always displayed some form of behavior that can be called ‘art’, and that this behavior fulfills a fundamental biological and evolutionary need(pg 38).” I believe that this quote is exactly one that I am attempting to express right now. People have always made art over the course of human existence and will continue to do so until humans don’t exist. Art is beautiful in the mind of the beholder and there is always going to be an immense amount of different opinions on the subject. The mind is an interesting thing and depending on how, where, who and what someone is brought up on, those actions and what that person is taught is going to define that person and make him or her see things in whatever way it is that they see them. Art has existed in so many different forms for hundreds of centuries and like us as humans, has evolved in and developed in so many different ways.
art?? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7paSzXEe2Q&feature=player_embedded
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