What Is Good Art: Crash Course Art History #6
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Date: 2024-05-30
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HistoryfortheAges
I cover this with my students when I talk about Michaelangelo and others from the Renaissance. Long story short they had standards. Then you get the impressionists and standards began to slowly fade. To the point today where are is all relative so someone can put a big rock someplace and call it art or have a blank white canvas and say it is art This may upset some folks, but think about this way. Are there any artists today that people will be familiar with 500 years from now and seen as genius the way we see the Renaissance artists My guess is no. There is always something to beauty in the eye of the beholder, but if we are honest with ourselves, there is also objectively amazing art and objectively bad art.
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I cover this with my students when I talk about Michaelangelo and others from the Renaissance. Long story short they had standards. Then you get the impressionists and standards began to slowly fade. To the point today where are is all relative so someone can put a big rock someplace and call it art or have a blank white canvas and say it is art This may upset some folks, but think about this way. Are there any artists today that people will be familiar with 500 years from now and seen as genius the way we see the Renaissance artists My guess is no. There is always something to beauty in the eye of the beholder, but if we are honest with ourselves, there is also objectively amazing art and objectively bad art.
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imaginairydotcom
Would love to hear your take on art and its location, and how location (space and setting, white cube vs. a wall at home, etc) can not only affect the perception of an artwork but also add to or subtract from its meaning. I wrote an essay on this topic a while back, but I’m curious to hear what others think. Always enjoy your contributions to the discourse of art!
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Would love to hear your take on art and its location, and how location (space and setting, white cube vs. a wall at home, etc) can not only affect the perception of an artwork but also add to or subtract from its meaning. I wrote an essay on this topic a while back, but I’m curious to hear what others think. Always enjoy your contributions to the discourse of art!
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shadw4701
Pretty much anything that takes skill, time, and patience.
If it's a blank canvas painted a single color it isn't art, it's money laundering.
Art is creative expression. Nothing is creative about a single color canvas
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Pretty much anything that takes skill, time, and patience.
If it's a blank canvas painted a single color it isn't art, it's money laundering.
Art is creative expression. Nothing is creative about a single color canvas
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jesseknight5835
The problem is that I dont think words like good and bad apply to art. You can discuss whether art works or whether you like art. but I've never understood the concept of art being good.
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The problem is that I dont think words like good and bad apply to art. You can discuss whether art works or whether you like art. but I've never understood the concept of art being good.
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Bargadiel
Lang wasn't going for beauty per-say but I will say that the photos themselves are still aesthetically pleasing to view and follow standard rules of composition and value.
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Lang wasn't going for beauty per-say but I will say that the photos themselves are still aesthetically pleasing to view and follow standard rules of composition and value.
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TristanFrodelius
Liking it. Next question. The best pizza in the world is the one that the person eating it likes the most. This is true of art.
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Liking it. Next question. The best pizza in the world is the one that the person eating it likes the most. This is true of art.
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