What is the goal of art?

Answer 1

Expression for the artist, to create a thing of beauty, to raise awareness, to reflect reality, make people think, etc. Sometimes there's no goal. Some might say art is what you make it.

Answer 2

The goal of all art is to evoke an emotional response in the viewer or audience.

Art is not useful. Art which becomes useful is a craft.

The arts are music, theatre, dance, sculpture, painting & drawing, photography, and architecture.

Yes, architecture is an art. The building based on the architecture is a craft.

Answer 3

Art's goal is the aspiration of the artist to intrepret life. Art is an outlet, a means of coping with the good, the bad and the in-betweens in our lives. As an artist/writer, I have been blessed with the ability to both write and draw.

Answer 4

Art is psychological. It can be reduced to a perception of a subject of a constructed visual stimulus, predictable in regards to probable response of its intended target spectators. Art is an experience based upon interrelationship between people and their world. Art includes such relationships as between viewer and art object, artist and viewer, society and artist, and the unconscious and the conscious. Thus, as Gestalt psychologists envision a sense of wholeness that the human mind provides to the static and isolated nature of real world stimuli, artists engineer things which capture this sense of unity among the apparently disparate things or events of our environment. Like the scientists, the artists search to discover a new reality through accomplished means of extending the limitation of today's reality. Science does this through advancing technology whereas artists use these new techniques to expand creative awareness of their contemporaries.



Art only exists in the minds of its selected perceivers. Some of these psychological factors influencing the perception of art include culture, sex,, age, formal art education, politics, economics, and value systems. Besides these variables of aesthetic perception are biological components like the way our consciousness functions, as an end product of evolution. Art thus includes the perceptual cognitive factors of the unconscious and psychophysical sensory mechanisms of the human body. There is also the influence of time and materials used in fabricating the art. Some aesthetic factors identified from these variables include the following: "boredom", "surprise value", "familiarity", "novelty" and "nostalgia".

Together all the above are interactive within the perceiver's brain, resulting in an immediate reaction to the artwork affixing attention. One "feels" whether he likes it or not. Some call this the intuitive way of "knowing what I like". "Art appreciation" as defined can then be described as an aesthetic perceptual model built upon interrelationships of these variables of perceiving art:

Answer 5

The goal of art is appreciation and enjoyment. It doesn't matter if it's Painting, Drawing, Sculpturing, or Music.