investigate the conflicts inherent in classifying advertisements as a form of art
2006-11-06 23:24:31 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Other - Visual Arts
Advertising is one of the "applied arts." They have specimens of ads and ad posters in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Besides this, I'll say the same thing about ads that Harvey Pekar said about comics, which is that it's pictures and writing, and that those pictures and writings can be as good as you can make them, the fact that it's "only an ad" notwithstanding.
Of course, the problem inherent in this analysis is that the ad always has a very short-sighted goal, which is to make you buy something. No noble exploration of the human spirit; just "Buy this foot powder." Also, ads always contain some sort of lie -- not just "Buy this foot powder" but "Buy this foot powder and be sexy and famous and glamorous and loved."
Art may be "A lie that tells the truth", as Picasso said. But I don't think this is what he had in mind.
Peace
2006-11-06 23:45:06 · answer #1 · answered by martino 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Norman Rockwell's famous images are from magazine covers - that is advertising. Most of the Group of Seven artists began their careers in advertising - they couldn't have been great painters unless they were artists first.
It's an art form that requires all the elements of a good painting, even if it uses only type and no images - balance, design, value, etc.
2006-11-07 09:23:01 · answer #2 · answered by joyfulpaints 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Advertising is definitely art. It is art with a motive or purpose beyond that of evoking the senses. It is there to create a powerful message to society. To sway opinions. Change directions.
2006-11-07 13:35:56 · answer #3 · answered by pg 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
anything and everything is 'art'. If humans did it its artistic in nature.
2006-11-07 07:28:54 · answer #4 · answered by psycgirl25 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋