When I think about the question: what is art for? I believe that art is used as a form of expressing ones self. Just like Dissanayake, I believe and agree that art is not limited to a group of people but for everyone. “Art is not confined to a small coterie of geniuses, visionaries, cranks, and charlatans-indistinguishable from one another-but is instead a fundamental human species characteristic that demands and deserves to be promoted and nourished”(26). Art is just not limited to painting and pictures, it can also be food. I like how Dissanayake said the phrase making things special. By using that phrase, it doesn’t limit art to a certain group. It shows how anything can be art as you the person decides what you want to make special. “Transforming the ordinary into the exta-ordinary. Looked at this way, art as making the things one cares about special, shaping and elaborating the ordinary to make it more than ordinary, is fundamental to everyone and, as in traditional societies deserves to be acknowledged as normal-to be encouraged and developed”(25). As for me, I could never draw, paint, or do anything that would normally be considered art. What i do as art is to be on the other side of the camera. What I like to do is make clothes seem special and just more than regular clothes. And I do this by modeling clothes through different companies. By doing this I am making the things I care about, which is clothes, and making it special in my own way. “Art is normal and a necessary behavior of human beings that like talking, exercising, playing, working, socializing, learning, loving, and nurturing should be encouraged and developed in everyone”(26).
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I used to not have much appreciation for art but as I’ve gotten older I’ve developed more of an understanding of art and definitely look at it in a new perspective. So I would have to agree with the statement you made agreeing with Dissanayake that art is for everyone. I definitely agree with food being art. I would almost prefer to look at pizza over a painting but that might just be because I’m hungry.
Art is interesting in the fact that you can make something extraordinary or you can make something completely ordinary. But the beauty in that ordinary piece, like a landscape painting for example, is the artist’s ability to replicate a scene with such accuracy and talent. Anyone who does not produce art is usually blown away by this.
I saw the older post on your blog about the BAPE store re-opening. Do you happen to model stuff for them? It looks like a cool brand.
Hi, I found that our arguments are really similar and I cannot find anything to disagree with you. I really agree with that art is for everyone so everyone could an artist. As Dissanayake explained, “Artists, just like everybody else, do not see the world in any singularly privileged or objectively truthful way, but rather – like everybody – interpret it according to their individual and cultural sensibilities” (Dissanayake 19). Art is our inherent trait so we do not need to be trained to create art. Maybe most of us cannot create some artworks that be accepted by most of people but our works still could be seen as art. In addition, everything could be seen as art, like you said even food could be considered as art. In next week, we will talk about the food.