Submitted by almaarre on 04/27/2009 03:35 PM Flag This Paper
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Art evokes feelings one has experienced and having personally experienced various degrees of feelings can be mimicked by movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed in words, so that those feelings can be experienced by others. Art is an activity similar to philosophy. The purpose of art is to transmit one individual’s feelings they have experienced through art and evoking the same feelings they have experienced to the audience. Art helps transmit feelings from one individual to another. Art should be defined by individual preferences. Art should be objective because art conveys different meanings to different people. Art becomes meaningful when we select and attach special meaning to it.
Art is everywhere because everything has a meaning and there should be distinctions between good art and bad art. Good art and bad art can be distinguished by the degree of the feelings being transmitted from the artist to the viewer. Art should be judged by the individuality of the feelings, how clearly the feelings have been transmitted, and the sincerity of the artist with which the artist feels the emotion has been accurately portrayed. If the art work evokes feelings that are genuine than the viewer will respond strongly to the art. If the feelings are clearly expressed then the viewer will be able to recognize the feelings being transmitted by the artist. The degree of sincerity in the artist helps the viewer acknowledge that the feelings are genuine. The artist should be impelled by an inner need to express his or her feelings. If the artist is sincere he will express the feelings as he or she experienced them, which gives the art work individuality. If the artist is sincere his or her feelings are genuine and are clearly expressed.
The painting “La Columna Rota†by Frida Kahlo is a powerful and intense self portrait of the horrific accident that had changed her life forever. Kahlo stands alone crying on a vast baron plain beneath a stormy sky. It is her...