Some questions about ART? Best answers win 10 points!!?

Question

1.What is art? Is it paintings, dancing, fashion, music,...?
2.What is good art?
3.Is all art beautiful? Why?
4.Do some people appreciate art better than others?
5.The celebrated Irish writer, Oscar Wilde, talked about "art for art's sake". In other words, art simply exists to allow people to show off and create a positive image for themselves rather than teach or give the viewer a new perspective in the world they live. do you agree?
6. The conformist fits in with the world around him/her. The unconformist tries to change the world around him/her. Bearing this in mind, do you believe that people create paths for walking or that the walking actually creates the path? Do you belive that sopa operas attempt to reflect real life or that real life attempts to mirror the fictional life in sopa operas? ultimately, does Art attempt to reflect, or project an image of what is real in our lives, or does it try to create or change our perceptions of the world around us in various ways?

Feel free to answer as many questions as you like!
Thank you all who have answered! :)

This is not my homework... And even if it was I would never write what is written in here. I prefer to see the world through my eyes instead. But, yeah, I do like to know people's opinion. :)

Answer 1

1)Art is whatever you think it is.
2)Art is neither good nor bad : you have a connection with it, then it's "good." You are the best judge. It's all subjective. There is no benchmark.
3) Again, subjective. If you think Dali is beautiful, that's up to you. You may be right. I repeat, it's all subjective. It's how YOU view things. Some "art" may be ugly and useless to some, yet strike a chord with others.
4) I don't know. I think it's presumptuous to say so. How can we know what's in another's heart or senses?
5)There are some writers and artists of other genres who may be pretentious. They may write "witty" aphorisms and be noted for such. There may in fact be no pretention in what may be overt pretentiousness - there is a lot of "truth" even in pretention.
If people's work has endured - and even if it hasn't - it's because for many, there WAS no fakery - whatever was said, seen, heard , all in the name of "Art", hit chords in many people, maybe for the poetry of the prose, maybe for the glory of the colours - but who can possibly say what is "fake" and what is not?
So, no, I don't agree at all. That was Wilde's "saying" and may not even have been his private opinion. You don't base an entire philosophy on one man's quotation.
6)Too many unrelated questions in this part, but I'll do my best.
I don't agree with your first two sentences. They are too facile, and people are too complex and many-facetted to be put in labelled boxes like that. Your walking the path question is more thought provoking, but, again, you are placing people in categories, and suggesting that there are ranks of path creators and ranks of path walkers. I feel this question is really a bit obscure; I think if you rephrased it, expanded, explicated, etc., then you might get more out of anyone who wants to answer. I do think, though, that as you create and walk the path, so, then, is the path created by the walking.
Soap operas?
Ridiculous dramatic hperbolic fakery with no relevance to "real" life. A killer of time. (And definitely not "Art," whatever Art is.)
I like your last question.
Why would someone try to paint a tree when it's right there in front of him/her? And far more beautiful than any reproduction on canvas? Because we feel closer to that beauty when we try to make it "ours" by painting it. Art reflects, it projects, and it changes our perceptions, yes, but only if we want it to. There is an evolving relationship between an artist and an "artistee", (for want of a better word). The artist is not the giver. It's a two way street.

Answer 2

1. Art is indescribable. It is beautiful. I believe there e is art in everything, not just paintings or dancing.

2. Good art? All art is good, but what makes something appeal to me is if it has some personal significance to me or what I have been through.

3. All art is beautiful. It just is.

4. Some people do appreciate it better than others, most likely the ones who don't appreciate it are uncultured swines.

5. I do agree. Great writer, great quote, and great perspective.

6. Walking creates the path. You are destined for things. You can change it, or you can go with it. Either way, your future is already planned out for you before you know it. I think Soap Opera's are fictional. It does deal with real life issues (most of the time, unless we are talking about Passions :D), but it is still fictitious. Art can reflect, as it does for me many times, but it also changes our lives and puts new spins on this, in strange ways that are...fictional, like Soap Operas.

Answer 3

1. Art is any way of communicating a feeling in a creative way.

2. Good art is that that stirs someones emotions.That speaks to someone.

3.No sometimes the ugly or distasteful is srt to some people. But then, it speaks to the artist. and he conveys that to others through his art..

4. Yes. Some people do not appreciate any type of art. They wish everything to be only practicle. Although the practicle can be artistic too.

5. That can be true. But there again, The artist is communicating his view. whether or not he cares if anyone else shares it.

6.These are all true in some form. EACH ARTIST HAS HIS OWN VSION, whether it conforms or not. Some may see the world just as it is to everyone else. Others look beyond what they see to what they feel

Answer 4

1) Art- can be all of the ones you listed are forms of
2) good art is in the eye of the beholder-no one person has the same opinion on what is good art and bad.
You might ask a thousand people and get a thousand different answers
3)Im sure to the artist that created the art they think their work is beautiful. But I have looked at some art and thought gee that is so ugly...so again...it is that eye of the beholder thing...
4) I would say yes...I am artist and I have a great appreciation for art...I go into Hobby Lobby and I go crazy and get all excited where someone who has no interest in art it wouldn't mean as much to them...
5) I don't think so....
6) I'll try to take a stab at it...not good with all this tricky stuff..ha!
walking acturally creates the path...Soap operas attempt to try to create or change our perception of the world around us in various ways (although alot of that stuff does go on... ha!)

Answer 5

1. That's a really big question. The examples you list are certainly "art forms"; but for an individual instance (e.g., a specific dance, painting, etc.) to qualify as art, I think it has to accomplish a certain artistic task. Sir Alec Guinness, in a gracious return letter to a fan letter from my father many years ago, wrote: "A truly great performace is something which enlarges the imagination of the spectator and consequently makes life more important for him." I think that if I were to settle on a definition of art, I would incorporate that sentiment.

2. The way I see it, there is art and there is not-art. Some things are art-like, but they don't accomplish the artistic task. "Office Art" is a good example of an art-like object that does something else--sets a mood or something--but it doesn't spark that inner experience of the spectator I indicate above.

3. As I recall--I don't remember the art philosopher who originally made the distinction--there is "the beautiful," which we tend to link with our concepts of "the good" (very Platonic idea), but then there is "the sublime," which is not necessarily beautiful but no less compelling. I think a piece of art can certainly be beautiful, but another piece may be "sublimely grotesque" and yet be no less a true piece of art than the former.

4. Sure, some people are more open to art experiences than others. I don't think it's much different than the disparate aptitudes and orientations possessed of all the people on this planet.

5. There's an idealistic tendancy for people to want art to be "disinterested," unattached or not contingent upon a special context to help with its meaning; art is to be its own context, audience, and referent. Eh, I just think that's unrealistic: all objects are situated one way or another, and all spectators are situated. In fact, one could say all objects and people are "over-situated" (re: Freud's idea of "over-determined"); we have many over-lapping contexts and perspectives at work, and to believe that we can isolate ourselves or that a piece of art can be isolated in such a profound way is just not believeable. Art, any art, probably does many things, evokes lots of responses outside the aesthete's "artistic experience." This broadness doesn't take away from the piece as art, in my opinion.

6. Art reflects, interprets, and creates the world all at once. I think that's what art and human beings have in common.

Answer 6

1. art is, in my own so elloquent words, the outward expression of something inside you; some writers say that thier peticular work was just bursting at the seems inside of them, and they had no choice but to put it down on paper. while painters say that they had a picture in thier heads they just put the paint to canvass. so art, is not one thing, but any thing anyone can express themselves.

2. Good art is completly subject to the viewer of the said art. but a relatively all inclusive answer to your question would be anything that accuratly depicts the said inward emotion to others.

3. Of course not all art is beautiful, and that is only because not all art is created in with the right frame of mind, and wheather the art is beautiful is completly up to the viewer of the said art. a five year old's picture of his family might look like garbage to an art critic, but to his parents it is the most beautiful thing that has ever graced thier eyes... but all honest art is beautiful in a sence... if that makes sence...

4. Most definitley... there are some people among us who do not see the worth in something unless it can create dollar signs... there are others who are just too criticle to see the emotion behind the art in question, and insist on seeing the imperfections... the period where a semi colon sould have gone, the differing brush strokes etc.

5. I believe that Wilde had a point. there is good in art for art's sake... but art can also provide a picture of truth and experiences for people that will never have the chance to have them first hand. ie: i read Ask the Dust by John Fonte and get a wonderful picture of LA in that time period that i could never get otherwise...

6. the simple answer is that both sides are true... someone must walk where there is no path for the path to be followed by others... and not every walk results in a path made mind you. just because i walk into the thick of the woods does not mean a road will appear behind me and others will follow behind. it is a unique experince that only i and whoever is with me will get in this life. in other words me walking into the thick of the woods is art for art's sake. while if i take a steam roller and a cement truck with me to tear down the woods and make a road for others to follow in, i have forever affected the world arround me...

Answer 7

Art is the objectification of the subjective life, or so someone once wrote.

Personally, I know what art is and I know what it isn't. But then again- art isn't the same thing to all people. Not all art is beautiful, not all art is appreciated by all people and some art, even to the appreciators of it, can be downright morose and
perverse. I mean, Maplethorpe crucifix in a jar of urine to ME was brilliant! Showed the TRUE value system of the Catholic church, the morallity of their priests and the corruption level amongst their followers ( Hitler.. Musselini, Franco...). Yet, oddly, others were completely OFFENDED by his art!?!?! GO figure!


And No, not all people appreciate art the same way. I was at a Gallery opening and standing before a piece whose colors and use of colors, the way the artist had applied the colors made the scene seem almost like velvet... it wanted to rub up against it, it was almost errotic for a landscape. And then this skinny little blonde in a barely-there dress that cost about $20 bucks at the gap walks up, tippling on her stilted heels and coos to her 'friends', an older gentleman who was obviously embarassed by her already " ooooh baby!! Wouldn't THAT one look good in the bathroom?!?! It TOTALLY matches my TOWELS!!" . He could have died. We looked at each other and he shrugged , making a quick exit. So you see, some get it, some don't. I mean, everytime I see Picasso 's Guernicca, I start to cry.
Art is what it is. its art. It can be what you make of it. It can be quirky and fun or deep and meditative, depending on the artist and yourself. The artists' representation and your impression. The messages may be crossedand perspectives may get mixed but after all is said, Art is art.



So next time you have an assignment, do your own homework sparky and quit coming online for us to answer your questions for you.

Answer 8

Art can be many things including the ones you have mentioned. Art is beauty to the one who has an interest in it, not everyone likes or loves art as someone else may.I feel that each person has his or her own opinion and taste so it would depend on the piece of art who thought what about it.

Answer 9

1. Art is a combo of all those things... except put on paper at different times.
2. Good art is whatever art the artist thinks is good.
3. All art is beautiful in its own way and someone might like something more than someone else.
4.yes
5.no
6.yes and no

Answer 10

1.art is all of those things.
2.any art is good,depends on if u like it or not.
3.some art can be beautiful and some art can be plain old UGLY but it depends on wat u think bcuz everyone has thier own opinion for everything.
4.of course some ppl appriciate art more than others,there are many different types so some ppl mite be more passionate towards wat they consider art.for example;some ppl may consider music art nd they will love it and have deep passion for it while others mite think its a piece of crap nd just a bunch of noise.personally i love music =D
5.well sometimes ppl create some things to show off but others mite not.usually an artist has an inspiration that makes him/her create that piece of art wheter it may be music,a drawing,etc.
6.i got confused on this question but yea.lol.