Why I Love Art and Believe in Art
“Art” is a term which can describe just about anything and everything, by all logical means rendering it useless, yet we still use it on a daily basis to ascribe praise to things we like. How does this happen? Some things simply have more “artistic qualities” than others, and this judgement is based on our personal preferences. Humans are intelligent social creatures, so these judgements often align in a way which ultimately makes up humanity. Within the theoretical vector space of infinite possibilities which make up all possible ways to interpret something, how amazingly humbling is it to think that humans have only spanned an incredibly small portion of this set? Every one of our opinions is not of our own, but of others and our environment. So what do I believe is art? Well, saying that art is undefinable would be useless, as I mentioned above. Subjectivity is proof of humanity and of synthesized meaning. There’s the dilemma I’ve run into: I can acknowledge that objec...
