Can We Debate Art

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 …

…what artwork you love and how it influenced you, not by trying to figure out how many people have to like a painting done by an artist, to be considered a master artist. Talk about art, and love art, but avoid trying to define something that by nature defies definition, abhors definition, and loses its meaning through definition. I love art, but I can and never want to tell it what it has to be.