Objectives
- Consider the origins of art
- Explore a brief history of Western Art
Original Post
Ellen Dissanayake discusses the nature of which art is supposed to bring out in people. She talks about the idea of disinterest when viewing an art piece, in which “viewers could appreciate any art even if the cultures were far removed from their own” (p.18). This idea took art to a new level, since paintings were admire without it being a reflection of one’s own nature to be appreciated. Instead the reasoning the piece was supposed to original mean lost some of its importance, and instead asks the viewer to invoke ideas that may or may not conflict. This was a struggle for critics that wanted a way to measure whether a piece was good or bad based on what it meant. Thus they believe that to truly appreciate art, you had to treat it almost like a religion, in which if the viewer must be educated about the subject before making any judgments. But art isn’t something that can be forced by other to understand, and not even the creator dictates how you might interpret their piece, that is something that can only be relied on by the viewer’s themselves, and through their own experience and knowledge in life, they can make their own analysis of the work in front of them. As Dissanayake says, art is something that is natural, such as “language, sex, sociability, aggression, or any of the other characteristics of human nature” (p.4). It is form of communication that is embedded into every human being on this planet, and just like all the other forms of communication, it varies greatly from one to another. Art is made to ask questions that cannot be easily spoken with words. Art is a question that takes many forms of understanding, with just as many answers waiting to be spoken by people of many different knowledge.
Reflection
My father owns an art gallery so I am really interesting about this artifact. What is art? This always be a question confused me. When I was young I always went to my father’s gallery to play and believe only the traditional Chinese art was known as art. However, after reading what Dissanayake writes, I find out all the human natural are art such as language, sex, sociability, aggression, or any of the other characteristic of human natural.
There is no specific way to say whether it is art or not. However, we can use our natural to express if it is art. After reading this article, I found many kinds of art, It is form of communication that is embedded into every human being on this planet, and just like all the other forms of communication, it varies greatly from one to another.
Future
In the future, I will find out more things which can be known as art. It is a really amazing thing to find out the art in our daily life. I hope I can learn more knowledge about art that help me understand arts very well.