Art

I found the discussion on art In our class very interesting. I danced around with the idea of art for a while now. I have been fascinated with how strongly some people feel about what is art and what is not. I have found there to be many a times a extremely strong emotional reactions to other peoples taste of what "ART" is suppose to be .

This painting Is art to me- well to many many other aswel , because I see duality, now I don't know the story behind the painting , But i still appreciate the painting. The minute I saw the painting I started to think about the different kind of people that live within us, and only one or two are seen by the world at different times. I started to think how I have all the characters living in me, The saint, the sades , the loving generous girl, the hateful spiteful girl, the naive innocent girl, the street smart women, the girl next door, the slut , the intellect,  etc  There are so many people that live within us, and with different company , different times in life, some faces are louder. This painting brought about a  domino effect of feelings within me, SO therefore, to me this painting is ART.   

The reading Psychic Distance was interesting to read, Although I feel I appreciated the reading more, maybe because I read the article after our class discussion. Which in my opinion gave way more life to the reading. When I was reading about objectivity and subjectivity, I remembered our class discussion about the white painting. And that no matter what you say about art , it is definitely Subjective. My favorite part of the reading

Suppose a man, who believes that he has cause to be jealous about his wife, witnesses a

performance of 'Othello.' He will the more perfectly appreciate the situation, conduct and character

of Othello, the more exactly the fe

elings and experiences of Othello coincide with his own

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at least

he ought to on the above principle of concordance. In point of fact, he will probably do anything but

appreciate the play. In reality, the concordance will merely render him acutely conscio

us of his own

jealousy; by a sudden reversal of perspective he will no longer see Othello apparently betrayed by

Desdemona, but himself in an analogous situation with his own wife. The reversal of perspective is

the consequence of the loss of Distance

I felt this was a great explanation of what draws and binds some people to a piece of art.

To me art is expression, Any one can express, Or any piece of art is some form of expression, therefore it is all Art. Like most things in life, Some art has more admires that other forms or pieces of Art, but nevertheless , that does not make it any less "Art". 

   
This to me is nothing but an inflatable toy, yet to many this is ART.