Monday, 27 September 2010

What is ART and what is NOT

I saw this interesting clip on Bigthink.com and thought I should share it with everyone. I am myself asked to explain to people, 'what is good art?'. Milton Glaser, does a good job of explaining about Art or Not, or what a layman would call Good Art or Bad Art.

Here is what he says, 'Beauty, which is very often something we confuse with art, is merely a mechanism to move us towards attentiveness. You realize we all have a genetic capacity and need to experience beauty, but beauty is not the ultimate justification for art. It is merely the device by which we are led to attentiveness.



I can distinguis
h between what is art and what is not. And my distinction is if it moves you to attentiveness, it is art. If it doesn't, it's something else'.


And I completely agree. Art is something that should invoke feelings, emotions; which could either be positive or negative, and draw your attention.

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