compare painting to music,why many people think that paintings are harder to understand?

Question

music is easy to understand,i think.

Answer 1

Often music has lyrics... there are generally no words written on a painting to explain what a painting is about.

Answer 2

Fewer people criticize another person's musical acommplishments. Likely that is because msuic is transient, existing only in real time, even recorded music is played in the present. Art, however, is constant, and from childhood, there is an abundance of criticism. "Trees aren't red," "Stay in the lines," "Is this a person or an animal?" Then we learn to avoid art believing "I can't even draw a straight line." And that becomes, "I don't know much about art, but I know what I like." The desire to learn has waned. Music is carefree...you can listen and interpret as you wish, without having to explain your satisfaction to anyone. Opera is tough because the story generally is told in a foreign language, and you have to work at listening and following the story. Classical music is complex, beautiful and easier to follow...no story. Pop music is basic, and many people relate to the simple beat and lyrics ( I can dance to it). I consider Sunday painting to pop music...realism, common subjects, similar interpretation. Classical music is Renaissance art...allegorical, beautiful, ideal. Jazz is abstraction and Pop Art is BubbleGum...and so on. The aural experience, as I said, happens in the present...but the visual is a continual feed of the same information. On top of this is that we are educated and trained toward realism...even though we first draw or paint in abstraction. We are led to believe that realism or represenationalism is the goal of doing art. Then we are confronted, with little explanation, with abstraction and we tend to seek out the familar cues of realism. (I see people). Thinking back on your education, wasn't the preponderance of gudiance based on realism?

Answer 3

This question goes to the heart of two very different sensory experiences, seeing and listening.
Perhaps seeing a painting often requires a more 'active' action than listening to a piece of music. I often find the more I know about a painting or art movement the more I enjoy a work.
Music speaks to the very rhythm in our blood, a rhythm which we all share.

Answer 4

The difference between music is basically the difference between different types of art.

When you listen to pop music the singer/songwriter lays out the whole story, through the lyrics, for you. They are telling you what to think. Whereas with classical music you are expected to think for yourself, to listen to it with your imagination, your heart and your soul.

With more realistic art the painter is also basically telling you what to think because he or she has provided you with a very specific story line to follow. With more abstract art the artist is asking you to think, to delve into the work with your own interpretations.

With both abstract art and non-lyrical music you should try to 'feel' the music and art. In doing so you'll understand it better on a more emotional, personal sub-conscience level.

Personally, I prefer art and music that expects me to think and provide my own input.

Answer 5

Painting is Visual Music, they play their paintbrush as it were a flute. Their palette as if it were a Harp. Oh yeah they're more related than you can imagine...

Answer 6

For not all have a taste for good art...................