What Is Art?
“What is art?” has been a question for hundreds of thousands of years that still has an answer at the same time as having no answer at all. Cutting down constraints of art is impossible to do because of its subjectivity. Art has everything to do with you and nothing to do with you at the same time.
Classifying the borders of art is a cyclical paradox. What most people can agree on is the idea that art is expressive and is created in a multitude of forms. Art can be painting, sculpting, carving, dancing, performing, spray-painting, cooking, lighting, welding, molding, sewing, and that is only the beginning of it. Some crowds disagree with the preceding statement because of arts differences in perception with each single person. Some do not think that graffiti is art, but vandalism instead. Others have dedicated their lives to such street art. Art can be made intentionally and unintentionally. Certain day to day situations can even become art. Everyone’s differentiating independent views on art stem from their own personal aesthetics. An aesthetic is a style or an art, or just anything that someone finds appealing to the eye. Aesthetics are subject to change since art is expanding every second.
Art can have everything to do with you and nothing to do with you. Every single art that you view may have been made out of expressiveness of an artist. Upon experiencing the art, you may resonate with/understand an aspect or the whole thing. Any piece of art that you see has the potential to affect you, make you view things a different way, and relate to you based upon your emotions and past life experiences.
Art does not have to be some extraordinary, elaborate, or expensive process. For example, I find cheeseburgers to be one of the purest forms of art. Everyone likes their cheeseburgers in a different way, cooked a certain way, and with different things on them or off of them. They can be made by almost anyone and made to a perfection based upon ones likings. Another form of inexpensive art is basic photography. Obviously certain cameras are insanely expensive, but cameras on phones and disposable cameras and polaroid cameras are less expensive. Making things out of what you already have is an admirable way to create art.
I reread “Philosophical Aesthetics: A Way Of Knowing”, but Marcia Muelder Eaton after this year of taking art history and I can honestly say that I don’t understand it too much more than I did after first reading it. The idea of aesthetic experiences makes sense to me especially through the example of people responding differently to the same music or song. What is difficult to understand about aesthetics that they are constantly changing every millisecond that time goes by since art appears to be ever-expanding.
“What is art?” has been a question for hundreds of thousands of years that still has an answer at the same time as having no answer at all. Cutting down constraints of art is impossible to do because of its subjectivity. Art has everything to do with you and nothing to do with you at the same time.
Classifying the borders of art is a cyclical paradox. What most people can agree on is the idea that art is expressive and is created in a multitude of forms. Art can be painting, sculpting, carving, dancing, performing, spray-painting, cooking, lighting, welding, molding, sewing, and that is only the beginning of it. Some crowds disagree with the preceding statement because of arts differences in perception with each single person. Some do not think that graffiti is art, but vandalism instead. Others have dedicated their lives to such street art. Art can be made intentionally and unintentionally. Certain day to day situations can even become art. Everyone’s differentiating independent views on art stem from their own personal aesthetics. An aesthetic is a style or an art, or just anything that someone finds appealing to the eye. Aesthetics are subject to change since art is expanding every second.
Art can have everything to do with you and nothing to do with you. Every single art that you view may have been made out of expressiveness of an artist. Upon experiencing the art, you may resonate with/understand an aspect or the whole thing. Any piece of art that you see has the potential to affect you, make you view things a different way, and relate to you based upon your emotions and past life experiences.
Art does not have to be some extraordinary, elaborate, or expensive process. For example, I find cheeseburgers to be one of the purest forms of art. Everyone likes their cheeseburgers in a different way, cooked a certain way, and with different things on them or off of them. They can be made by almost anyone and made to a perfection based upon ones likings. Another form of inexpensive art is basic photography. Obviously certain cameras are insanely expensive, but cameras on phones and disposable cameras and polaroid cameras are less expensive. Making things out of what you already have is an admirable way to create art.
I reread “Philosophical Aesthetics: A Way Of Knowing”, but Marcia Muelder Eaton after this year of taking art history and I can honestly say that I don’t understand it too much more than I did after first reading it. The idea of aesthetic experiences makes sense to me especially through the example of people responding differently to the same music or song. What is difficult to understand about aesthetics that they are constantly changing every millisecond that time goes by since art appears to be ever-expanding.
