ART IS
Simplistic and common sense views
Discussing
these concepts, my aim is to overcome them and so come to a view which
considers Art as a mean of knowledge, filled
with specific and own content, able to redeem the whole human being.
vART IS BEAUTIFUL
vART IS CONTAGIOUS
vART IS FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
vART IS INTERDISCIPLINARY
vART IS OBJECT OF CONSUPTION
What makes something a work of art?
This is a controversial matter, it
varies depending on personal preferences and interpretations.
vMAN MADE
vCREATES AN EMOTIONAL RESPONSE/ EMOTIONAL
VALUE
vHAS A MEANING BEHIND / COMMUNICATES
A
MESSAGE
vCREATES AN AESTHETIC RESPONSE/ ASTHETIC
VALUE
vQUESTIONS THE WAY WE LOOK AT THINGS
vTHE RESPONSE OF THE AUDIENCE
vTHE QUALITY OF THE WORK
vIT IS EDUCATIVE
vCREATES TRENDS
"Marilyn" by Joana Vasconcelos
vMade
out of hundreds of stainless steel pans and covers,
‘Marilyn’
was
inspired by the high-heel shoes worn by Marilyn
Monroe
in the infamous clip from “The Seven Year Itch”, when the blond bombshell walks
over an air-vent.
vThrough
her
stainless steel work of art, Joana Vasconcelos
points out that modern-day women are expected to look beautiful in public, and
do all the work around the house.
vThe
13ft
by 9.8ft stainless steel pan ‘Marilyn’ is
expected to sell for a sum between $155,000 and $233,550.
This piece of art is worthy of a lot of
skill and it is considerate to be high quality, it is therefore seen as art by
many.
vTo me
it is definitely art, it is art in the sense of being very ingenious and
meaningful. I can identify myself with the meaning behind it and I can relate
the work to the meaning.
vAccording
to the moral of relativism, there are no universal values; our values are
determined by the society in which we live in. Living in a developed world and
in a feminist society, my
moral values and my judgments say that this is
art, and thus moral reasoning accounts for defining something as true to
ourselves.
vThe
diversity argument supports the theory of moral relativism and helps to
understand this piece as being art.
vI
based my opinion on perception, emotion and reason.
Poem "Tabacaria" by Álvaro de Campos
“I am nothing.
I'll never be anything.
I couldn't want to be something.
Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.”
vFernando
Pessoa was
a prolific writer, and not only under his own name, for he dreamed up
approximately seventy-five others. He did not call them pseudonyms because he
felt that did not capture their true independent intellectual life and instead
called them heteronyms.
vÁlvaro
de
Campos ,
out of all the other, he
is the one who feels most strongly, his motto being 'to feel everything in
every way.' 'The best way to travel,' he wrote, 'is to feel.'
vAs such,
his poetry is the most emotionally intense and varied, constantly juggling two
fundamental impulses: on the one hand a feverish desire to be and feel
everything and everyone, declaring that 'in every corner of my soul stands an
altar to a different god‘,
on the
other, a wish for a state of isolation and a sense of nothingness.
In my opinion, to write is to create
something meaningful, to express our emotions through words. I think that poems
in particular are a much expressive and truthful way of doing so.
vI
identify myself with this poem because I share the feelings and the perception
of the world which this poem transpires.
vI
know that this is art because of my individual experience, reflection and
perspective.
vI
also think that my views are influenced by my culture and by the people who
stand up to me as a role model. Both lead me to see poems as something
beautiful which we can and must admire and reflect. Thus, I have based my
arguments on ethics and human science.
"Ghost Dance" by Christopher Bruce
v‘Ghost
Dance’ (choreographed
by Christopher Bruce for Rambert in
1981) came about as a result of a letter received by Christopher Bruce from a
widow of a Chilean folk singer who had been murdered. He was asked to do a work
for the Chilean Human Rights Committee and was given a lot of South American
music with which he fell in love. This stirred him to be sympathetic towards
the cause of the Committee who were against unnecessary killings taking place
throughout their country.
Certainly,
‘Ghost
Dance’ has
a tremendous impact and audiences in many countries have delighted in its
distinctive, rhythmic movement performed to haunting South American tunes.
However, it is the representation of the oppression of ordinary people,
symbolised by the sinister ghost figures, which give the work much of its
resonance.
vI am
convinced that ‘Ghost dance’ is a very influential and critical view of the
world, the people and the unknown.
vI
have used my sense, perception, reason and emotion in order to create a view of
this piece and I have reached the conclusion that it is very educative. It has
helped me to understand and deepen my knowledge of political oppression as well
as the culture of the people being represented in this dance work.
vIt is
obviously man made and it has a great meaning behind it, creating many
emotional responses and raising questions which can lead to a new understanding
of the world.
vTherefore,
I assume that this is Art.
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vTO BUILD
vTO UNDERSTAND AND
vTO EXPRESS
