Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Response to Shawna's post about beauty

In your post, you describe art as being "beauty", however, I think we sometimes forget that some art intends to be ugly. Or in the case of the blank canvas, ironic.

Art can be intended to be a whole host of adjectives. The viewer, whether or not they find aesthetic value in it or not, can grasp this without having their own preferences involved. If the art is a picture of a flower (well done or not) the viewer can grasp that the artist meant to capture the beauty of a flower.

Therefore, I feel that aesthetic value (beauty) may lie in the eye of the beholder, but the overall meaning of a painting does not.

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