For my final blog, I figured it would be best to give you the overall idea of what I have determined to be the idea of what is the nature of art.
While I resist defining art because it cannot be defined in simple Merriam-Webster’s dictionary terms. If one were to write an entire dictionary with definitions of ‘art,’ then perhaps they would just begin to hit on an introductory definition of art.
Art is anything that stimulates our brains to make us laugh, incites us into intense emotion, or makes us question either the artwork itself or some grander questions about both our outward, universal experiences and the most personal inquisitions of our inner minds and souls. It may at once be a way to express oneself and to communicate messages to anyone willing to truly “listen.”
A definition for art would be a constant struggle between a limitless number of dichotomies. Art is forever changing yet, in many ways, always the same. Art can be subjective and mean something different to every person, but it can be objective communicating universal ideas to the masses. Art is function and fun, form and content. Art is anything that makes us more thoughtful, inquisitive, well-rounded, engaged individuals.
Some may argue that art cannot be simply seen as a set of dichotomies, however, and that you must first define art to make any sort of sentences starting with “Art is...”; but while I may resist defining art in a few select words, I think it is possible to only know art through experience and a lifetime of occurrences with it—experiencing things both you and others see as art in order to grow into a fully-rounded idea of the general knowledge of what makes art, art.
To me, art can be anything and everything; it is all around us and within us. It is the Brillo pad in the sink or the recreation of Brillo by Warhol, the child dancing in their room or the professional ballerina on stage, and the dinner plate on the shelf or the one in use at the table.
Art cannot be defined in simply terms because it is just about anything that makes our lives as complex beings considerably richer.
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