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Can We Debate Art? - School Essays

Can We Debate Art?

When I first began thinking about this topic, it seemed as if it was a fairly simple subject. Of course, we could debate art. Critics and the average citizens have done it for years, debating over which pieces are their favorites. As I began to think about the subject and received feedback from the class, this topic became infinitely more complicated with questions like: what is art, could we see that one person’s art is better than another’s, and why is it (and justified) that people such as Van Gogh and Picasso have become famous? Looking back at what my initial feelings were and how they have developed over the weeks, I noticed that my ideas and principles were not changed ...

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that does not offend or ridicule?” One example was a piece done where a person had placed a crucifix upside-down…was this art? I decided that it was, based on my belief that anything, although it may seem offensive or even repulsive, should be considered as art as long as one person, maybe only the artist himself, was somehow affected by it. Reading that sentence over, I suddenly realized how difficult it is to discuss this issue. It seems as if we are to debate art, we need a list of requirements that need to be fulfilled.
It seems the more we think about what art is, the more the true meaning and feeling that is the nature of art, is somehow stifled and suppressed. Let us leave this definition alone and move to the debate over why the master artists, studied and enjoyed for years, are indeed that—masters. The main issue I tried to debate on this topic was how people could deem some artist great and awe at his work hung in the Louvre, while the work done by “Lil’ ...

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