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What makes a human expression a work of art for you?
Do you think that art always reflects an artist’s main philosophical premise? How do you distinguish art from junk? Does whatever art that you really like express your own philosophy or sense of life? In other words, in a movie, a novel, a painting, a sculpture, a piece of music, any artistic expression that you really like is there a philosophical message about your life that you can describe?
Rare Spirit ------ So, if art is defined as freedom of expression, it seems to me that an artist is free to express basketballs floating in a tank. According to your definition, that picture should not be considered junk. There are people who do ponder on that art, whatever they are able to ponder about it. My reason for not considering it art is that even if the artist is excellent at painting the picture like a photograph, he is expressing only form without content. The artist sees art only as the ability to duplicate what already exists in reality without creativity. What is missing from that picture is the message which responds to this question: What did the artist want to idealize with his artistic effort?
Shah K ---- Yours is an interesting answer. You say that art involves skill and creative imagination. I agree. You need both skill and imagination to write a novel and to paint a picture that must be objectively considered a work of art. But then you end up saying that some of Picasso’s art is highly prized even if it is exuberantly pointless. I think some of his art is meaningless just like a child’s scribble, devoid of both skill and creativity.
Şрhĩņxy- Hijinxs. --- Thank you for your answers, so nicely well designated. Your definition of art is a bit broad, for me. If at the moment I feel to throw a ripe tomato at the canvas, I guess I can claim that I made a work of art.
There Aint No Barb Here, Pal --- My comment above applies to your “very broad” definition, too.
mintyf --- “While a huge white canvas with a big black dot in the middle could get someone to feel some sort of intense emotion I would just think the artist forgot to paint the rest.”
“One mans junk is another mans treasure seems like the accurate saying for this.”
What these statements amount to is that there is no standard for distinguishing junk from art. Beethoven’s symphony is just as valuable as my strumming “Happy Birthday” on the guitar. But I think that the value of art is no different from any other value, from any virtue. You must be civilized to value what money stands for. A stack of $100 bills is something to throw on the fire for a savage. Therefore, if I don’t have an education to evaluate an artist’s work, I can only use like or dislike as my emotional standard of judgment. But even emotions reveal a lot about the artist who paints a black dot and about the observer who is ecstatic about it!
Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist’s metaphysical value-judgments. Man’s profound need of art lies in the fact that his cognitive faculty is conceptual, i.e., that he acquires knowledge by means of abstractions, and needs the power to bring his widest metaphysical abstractions into his immediate, perceptual awareness. Art fulfills this need: by means of a selective re-creation, it concretizes man’s fundamental view of himself and of existence. It tells man, in effect, which aspects of his experience are to be regarded as essential, significant, important. In this sense, art teaches man how to use his consciousness. It conditions or stylizes man’s consciousness by conveying to him a certain way of looking at existence. --- From the Ayn Rand Lexicon
5 Antworten
- ?Lv 6vor 9 JahrenBeste Antwort
Art is a well coordinated and disciplined activity that may be result of skill or natural talent or years of practice and learning that may be expanded to include a distinctive way of looking at the world. Art is skill at performing a set of specialized actions, as for example, the art of gardening or of playing musical instruments. Art in its broader meaning, however, involves both skill and creative imagination in a musical, literary, visual, or performance context. Art provides the person or people who produce it and the community that observes it with an experience that might be aesthetic, emotional, intellectual, or a combination of these qualities.
Most of the artistic creations Painters, musicians, cartoonists, writers etc. these days conform to the needs of the clients rather than expression of artist's own feelings. However, some artists especially painters, authors and poets produce their work according to their own feelings. That is why the work of Pablo Picasso is highly prized even though for ordinary people it may appear as wonderfully irrational and exuberantly pointless.
- ?Lv 6vor 9 Jahren
Q: What makes a human expression a work of art for you. My Answer: The way it is portrayed in the moment it is shown at the time.
Q: Do you think that art always reflects and artist's main philosophical premise? My Answer: It depends on how open the artist wishes to be with their audience.
Q: How do you distinguish art from junk? My Answer: One wo/man's junk is another wo/man's treasure.
Q: Does whatever art that you really like, express your own philosophy or sense of life? My Answer: Yes most of it does represent/stands for something that I believe in, whether it's freedom of choice, beauty, romance, humour etc.
- vor 9 Jahren
No I do not think that art always reflect an artist's main philosophical premise. It depends on the one who calls him/herself the artist. I distinguish art from junk by applying the definition of art to the piece I am looking at. Art means 'freedom of expression'; if the piece I am looking at is basketballs floating in a domestic fish tank then it is junk. If an artist expresses his/herself in a way that makes me think, ponder, wonder then it is art. The art that I really like often does express my own philosophy or sense of life, but if it coaxes me into thinking from a different perspective then I like it even more.
- mintyfLv 7vor 9 Jahren
I think it can vary from person to person. My sister does a lot of artwork, some of it its just something she enjoys painting or drawing, others are for expression. It varies with the artist. Some may pour their soul into their work, others just do it for the enjoyment. Having said that, its also based on our unique perceptions. Theres some pieces of music that get you feeling exactly what the artist is trying to portray, or you feel like you can relate. A novel, movie etc. Same thing. For someone like me something such as a painting or sculpture isn't something I can relate to at all. I can stare at it for hours, tilt my head, look at the contrast and brush strokes and I feel nothing. We're all unique in the way we see things. While a huge white canvas with a big black dot in the middle could get someone to feel some sort of intense emotion I would just think the artist forgot to paint the rest.
One mans junk is another mans treasure seems like the accurate saying for this. I mean an artist like my sister could draw something and feel nothing towards it while an onlooker would be like I feel what shes trying to say. What if she isn't trying to say anything at all? I was always curious about that..
Hmm in particular I can relate to a few things which honestly wouldn't make sense to another person.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2XmLcnYSwQ
This song for example, I never liked the original. Didn't have any thought provoking feelings, but than the dj was able to remix to a point where certain parts where emphasized and I felt like I could completely relate to what the singer was trying to say and what the dj felt as well and what he felt was important. There was a point in my life where I had to drop everything in my life and just do my own thing and consider myself instead of friends and my love. I needed my space to breath to find myself. Being oceans away wasn't about to help our situation and I always felt strapped down. There was other guys I met, I didn't trust them, and the ones I did trust I wasn't attracted to them. Think song just happens to portray that point in my life so perfectly. Another person could totally find this rubbish.. all in the eyes of the beholder. =]
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- Too-Da-Loo!Lv 7vor 9 Jahren
My definition of art is more broad than the average person. So I think that if someone wants to call something "art", then art it is. As long as it is a sincere expression of the individual, and strays a little outside the norm.
