Which is the best form of art?

Answer 1

To ask "which is your favorite" is possible to answer definitively. To answer which is best requires more consideration.

There is no best form of art. Each has its own particular strengths and weaknesses. What one person can use to express themselves may be inadequate for someone else. The form of expression is one of personal preference. No hierarchy is applicable.

The need to have a "best" seems to be a sticking point of western culture. Why is it necessary to have a best? What determines perfection? You recognize how futile the questions of what is best and what is prefect are the more experienced you become.

So choose the form of art you create by what serves your need for expression and where you find your talent, not by some convoluted perception of "what is best."

Answer 2

Totally agree with Magic One.
Btw, Leonardo da Vinci tried to demonstrate the superiority of picture over music saying that once a song finished, the object which has produced the artistic emotion does no longer exist, while a painting hasn't this "temporal" limitation. It seems a little odd to me...after all, nowadays you can listen to the same melody over and over again. Even if the effect may be different each time.
But as the others said, there is no "best form of art" merely because you cannot evaluate them all using the same criterion.

Answer 3

There cannot be a best form of art any more than there can be a best jellyfish, a best continent or a best galaxy.

Everything depends on the context we are looking.

Best...for what?

;-)

Answer 4

Traditionally fine arts, and music perhaps tops the list of 64 such fine arts !

Answer 5

There is no "best" form--it is 100% a matter of opinion.

Answer 6

The one that draws the most moving response from the viewer.

Answer 7

The creativeness within you..It is original and unique..one of a kind !!..

Answer 8

sex ........ lol no ummm paintings =0)