(1) Art is the best possible window into another culture.
(2) Art is the expression of the life of the community.
(3) We must know external facts before trying to acquire the internal attitude for another community's art.(Each of the three nkosi nkondi nail fetish sculptures in the menil collection served as a powerful guarantor of justice for it's village or region.)
(4) Art is culturally significant meaning, skillfully encoded in an affecting sensuosus medium.
(5) Art provides a point of critical resistance, building a new national identity by evoking cultural roots.
(6)What artists can make as art depends on the context of intentions possible for a given era and culture.
(7) Art is a very deep expression of attitudes and outlook .
(8)The aims of scholarship and preservation of real objects are being replaced by an emphasis on virtual experience, theatricality, and emotional rhetoric.
(9)The work's impamanence epitomizes the Buddhist view of life's transitory nature.
(10)Art requires both patronage and academic training.
(11) Through much of the past, strict social expectations about women's roles in family life discouraged them from seeing art as more than a hobby.
(12) Women's ambition towards art is often restricted by their own sense of what is appropriate to their gender or by internalized sexism.
(13) Genius belongs to creators who employ their medium so that all viewers can respond with awe and admiration.
(14)Canons are described as 'ideologies' or belief systems that falsely pretend to objectivity when they actually reflect power and dominance relations.
(15)'The dinner party' celebrated female bodily experiences by linking visual representations to texts that conveyed women's power and achievement rather than passivity and availability.
(16)Art that focuses too much on anatomy and sexual embodiment ignores differences due to women's social class, race, and sexual orientation.
(17)Femininity is not real, but I'd the artificial product of images, cultural expectations, and ingrained behaviors, such as ways of dressing , walking , or using makeup.
(18) In order to interpret artworks, we must look beyond gender and sexual preferences to the broader context that gives any art it's meaning.
(19) Art acquires meaning in part from its context.
(20) A good interpretation must be grounded in reasons and evidence, and should provide a rich, complex, and illuminating way to comprehend a work of art. Sometimes an interpretation can even transform an experience of art from repugnance to appreciation.
(21) Freud saw art as a form of sublimation, a gratification that substitutes for the actual satisfaction of our biologically given desires.
(22) Art can express or communicate not only feelings but also ideas.
(23) Artists are often admired because they can express ideas in ways that are original, apt, and unique to a particular medium.
(24)To expressa a feeling in art is part of understanding it. Until a man expresses his emotion, he does not yet know what emotion it is. The act of expressing it is therefore an exploration of his own emotion.
(25) Art has meaning, not so much of artists' desires and thoughts, as of the era in which they live or work.
(26)Art has a role in enabling people to perceive, manipulate , or otherwise grapple with reality. Art is not just something to store on the shelf, but something people use to enrich their world and their perceptions.
(27)Art conveys knowledge of how to perceive the world around us , something not readily reducible to a series of propositions.
(28)What we learn from art depends on our aims, situations, and purposes , and it is always active or relevant to a lived experience.
(29)What we know through art is felt in our bones and nerves and muscles as well as grasped by our minds, all the sensitivity and responsiveness of the organism participates in the invention and interpretation of symbols.
(30)Art can fulfill the same criteria that make sci tific hypothesis successful: clarity, elegance, and above all rightness of rendering.
(31)Theost advanced interpretations are reasoned, detailed, and plausible;they reflect background knowledge and community standards of rational debate.
(32)Interpretations and critical analyses help explain art - not so as to tell us in the audience what to think , but to enable is to see and respond to the work better ourselves.
(33) Art is a continuous examination of our perpetual awareness and a continuous expansion of our awareness of the world around us.
(34) Art theory involves the effort to organize a dizzying variety of phenomena so as to try to say what have in common that makes them special.
(35) New organs of perception come into being as a result of necessity - therefore, increase your necessity so that you may increase your perception.
Further reading...
1. ' Art and culture ' by clement Greenberg
2. Word of art series. (London and New York)
3. Christine battersby 'gender and genius'
I suppose for an intellectual, art is about giving us a different perspective on something, trying to understand the intention of the artist , and the message of the artist, just to point out a few , rather than who owns what on a monetary perspective... My opinion though
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