Tuesday, February 12, 2008

ART?

I believe that overall it is by social consensus that we decide what real art is. Whatever the general public says about art is the definition of art for that moment in time. When it comes down to it, anything made that is significant to someone, if it really means something, can be considered art. What I think is beautiful, you may think is hideous. What I think is a brilliant or amazing poem, someone else may think is retarded and useless. First and foremost the piece of art will have some sort of significance to the artist, making it art. Then whoever else finds meaning and significance in that piece; to them they have just defined that as art. Though subjective, we must accept that this is how art is defined. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, right? So who is really able to define art? When in reality it is completely indefinable. People still try, but we will never reach one right answer. There is no right answer. That is what is amazing and beautiful about it, art is what you want it to be, it is subjectivity by definition. And no matter how hard people try to boil art down to a formula or a right or wrong, Art will always be art to somebody.

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