Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts

Tuesday, 8 November 2011

What is art?

There has been, and still is, lots of debates about the description of art and how it is received by the viewers. According to Tolstoy, art in our society has been so perverted that not only has bad art come to be considered good art, but also the perception of real art has been lost. If we look at some postmodernist art that are highly overvalued and has been used more for commercial purpose than connecting with the audience we can accept this theory. There has been written lots of books, articles, essays; there are lots of theories that students are obliged to read at the university and write sometimes meaningless essays in order to pass the course...sometimes one wonders how much time, energy, etc has been consumed to make these more complicated, where as the nature is art and no one can deny that all pieces of nature are the highest form of art; for example one single autumn leaf is a masterpiece and definitely it is the art that no classic, modern, postmodern,etc works can compete with.

Monday, 22 March 2010

Work of art

Harsh reality about some works of art: the artist died in
misery while suffering from economic hardship...several
years later in 1960 his painting was sold for $55,000...and
then the same painting was resold in 2009 and this time for
the amount of $142 million. There are many cases like this.
Of course these prices are manipulated prices rather than
real prices. But does it make any change to what happened
to the artist?