The Quality of Art:
How can it be defined? Or can it? Is it entirely up to the individual to decide whether an expression of art (e.g. music, painting, etc.) is good? That would be the answer most people gravitate to, including myself.
But consider that art is intended to please the creator and the audience; if one shows a work of art to somebody, it can be rightly inferred that he/she intends it to please and provide positive reinforcement to the artist through the audience. Does that mean that if one's expression has a greater audience than another's, it is more successful and, in turn better? Is Britney Spears's music better art than that of Oscar Peterson? And is Pablo Picasso's art better than that of Francis Bacon because Picasso pleases more people? This is of course, assuming that two artists are given equal opportunity to succeed and that someone is not a closet artist. Maybe closet art is the worst form of art or it automatically does not qualify as art because it has no audience beyond the creator; that is much like a car idling and getting the worst possible fuel economy.
How can it be defined? Or can it? Is it entirely up to the individual to decide whether an expression of art (e.g. music, painting, etc.) is good? That would be the answer most people gravitate to, including myself.
But consider that art is intended to please the creator and the audience; if one shows a work of art to somebody, it can be rightly inferred that he/she intends it to please and provide positive reinforcement to the artist through the audience. Does that mean that if one's expression has a greater audience than another's, it is more successful and, in turn better? Is Britney Spears's music better art than that of Oscar Peterson? And is Pablo Picasso's art better than that of Francis Bacon because Picasso pleases more people? This is of course, assuming that two artists are given equal opportunity to succeed and that someone is not a closet artist. Maybe closet art is the worst form of art or it automatically does not qualify as art because it has no audience beyond the creator; that is much like a car idling and getting the worst possible fuel economy.
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