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- Essay Name : 866.txt
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- Language : english
- Subject : Art
- Title : What is Art?
- Grade : 85%
- School System : university
- Country : usa
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- What is Art?
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- Art is any expression through any medium. It has to have meaning to
- both the artist and the viewer. Art is an expression of a person's thoughts and
- feelings. Art has to have meaning to both the artist and the viewer. Art is
- feeling.
- The artist needs inspiration through stimulation of visual, sonic, and
- mental senses. The artist has to have an idea and a reason for the art they
- create. Art is never without reason. The artist has to have inspiration and
- experience to create meaningful art for the viewer. The viewer decides whether
- art is relevant.
- A person has to find meaning or feeling from an artists' idea or picture to
- make it art. Art has to make sense to the viewer for it to be art. The viewer
- needs to find something out of the artists' ideas if a person expects to ever be
- any kind of innovator or even be remembered as any kind of thinker.
- Art to me is a meaningful expression of one's thoughts and ideas. You
- have to have feeling and energy to create art. The artist needs stimulation to
- have an idea and inspiration to create something meaningful for others. Art is
- making others feel what you feel and understand what you create.
- A person cannot be an artist if none can appreciate the ideas and pictures
- they are creating. The ultimate artist can convey their innermost feelings in the
- most abstract ways and have their audience completely understand their ideas
- and thoughts.
- Abstraction is the key to successful artwork. If an audience can
- understand an artists' most abstract ideas and pictures it means the artist is
- doing their job. Abstraction is the key to an artist's work. If a person can
- convey their ideas in an their own ways and others truly understand it they are
- the ultimate artist. The ultimate artist can express their ideas in any form and
- anyone can understand it.
- The function of art is to show persons an artists feelings. Art is
- expression of a feeling that is understood by many but is constructed by one.
- The artist is a conveyer of free thinking and knowledge.
- The viewer has a task to research the artist and their ideas. Art is often
- hard to understand without some research about the artists moods, the events of
- the time, and the events in the artists life. Reality creates abstractness.
- Viewing art is an art in itself. It can take a lifetime of study to completely
- understand a piece of art and the artists meaning for creating the piece.
- Art can be simple. Nature is art and it creates art. The beauty and
- majesty of the mountains is an example of nature being art. The night sky or a
- sunset are otherwise nature is art. Driftwood is an example of nature creating
- art. Even though nature itself may not be a living entity or being by the
- standards of many humans, it gives so much feeling and many perceive it to
- have reason.
- Arts' meaning and even whether it is art is often disagreed upon. Art is
- different to everyone. What may be beautiful to someone like a child's crayon
- drawing to their mother is often considered trash to another person. Some
- great artists often perceive their work as trash as infinitely imperfect while it
- seems flawless to the viewer. Art has always been controversial and disagreed
- upon and probably always will be.
- The contravercy and the newness are what make art dynamic and
- exciting. Art has to continue to change for it to be relevant. It is hard it get the
- masses involved in an artist with ideas that died soon after they did five hundred
- years ago. People get excited over new art, they say, "Yes, this is relevant!"
- Art changes with the world or as some would say the world changes with the
- art.
- Art is about stating ideas whatever the cost of conveying them. Art can
- be considered tasteless like the painting of The late Chicago mayor Harold
- Washington in his underwear that was displayed in the school of the Chicago
- Art Institute a week after he died of a heart attack. Robert Maplethorpe's
- photographs showing blatant homosexuality and sexual fetish's were considered
- pornography to many, but others thought they were brilliant displays to shake
- up and rattle mainstream society.
- Art's most important aspects are controversy, relevant meaning to the
- artist and the viewer, change, and abstractness. An persons thoughts are often
- abstract so it is only natural for their expression of art to be obscure and
- abstract. Art is an outlet for humankind's most complex ideas and emotions.
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