I just read a poem on here that I really enjoyed. It was very dark, and therefore not for everyone. (One person said it wasn't poetry, and that the author should write about birds, trees, and flowers.)
While everyone's opinion is valid, and they are free to say they don't like something, does a negative opinion mean it's not poetry? Or not art?
Thoughts, please?
2006-07-19 05:46:50 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
a negative opinion can be at least as strong as a positive one, wouldn't you agree? if one of the purposes of art (and music, and poetry, all literature if you want to take it that far) is to get the viewer to interact/react, then i'd say dark poetry (and graphic art) is just as legitimate as ballads of butterflies. it's just not as socially accepted by everyone... not yet.
you go on enjoying the kind of art you like, and don't worry about what someone else might call it. a rose is still a rose.
2006-07-20 15:04:02 · answer #1 · answered by patzky99 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well now once art is defined it is no longer art really. It is a soulless structure. Art is pure form devoid of its function. When the function is rendered, then a piece of the form is lost. A machine may have a beautiful structure and when that machine's function is understood, its form tends to diminish. One will not see the beauty of form in a machine when it is broken down in all its parts.
"All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril."
"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope."
-Oscar Wilde
2006-07-24 00:16:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. There's no unargueable definition of art. Everytime someone tries to make one, someone else says they're wrong. Everytime someone new does something new or controversial (like the guy who suspended a plastic rosary in a jar of urine, the guy who ripped a urinal out of a wall and hung it (Mutt), the guy who draped several miles of countryside in clear plastic, or the guy who painted an outhouse seat (Pollac) people debate whether it's "art" or not. Just do what pleases you and don't worry about finding a universal definition.
2006-07-19 12:54:33 · answer #3 · answered by rickthewonderalgae 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never judge a work of art by it's defects.
2006-07-19 13:30:44 · answer #4 · answered by sweet & sour 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋