How much do you enjoy art?

[Themius]

How much do you enjoy art? I have a friend who likes art, though doesn't see the big deal in it, isn't moved by art at all and it baffles me. I on the other hand adore art (I am speaking of paintings right now, but sculptures, music, and so on will do) and it seems quite odd to me. I can be moved to tears of excitement looking at some pieces and am filled with tremendous happiness. I tend to think that many people today simply like art, but do not have such a fondness of it.

[s_bushido]

I've never been moved by looking at visual art. So people that say they have are just as incomprehensible to me.

I'll occasionally get chills or feel a rush listening to music, but looking at a painting or sculpture? Nah.

[Deleted]

I'm like your friend, I just enjoy looking at it but I don't feel any real emotional connection to it unless it depicts landscapes that I recognize for obvious reasons.

[Bluesftw]

real art like paintings sculptures, very much , those newage crap when someones thinks hes making art when he paint rainbow over toilet seat , not rly

[Deleted]

I think art is pointless. It's a human pleasure that has no useful purpose. But that's just my view, and I understand some people love art and I respect that.

[Rucati]

Art as in music/books/tv/games/etc I enjoy and think they can be moving and emotional. Paintings, not so much.

I never understood why people like drawings/paintings so much, sure they can look nice to hang in your house because it's better than just having blank walls, but it never seem that exciting. Like the Mona Lisa, she's just an ugly girl with a creepy smirk, you couldn't pay me enough to hang that picture in my house, yet people make a huge deal over it. Lots of stupid/boring/ugly artwork has an extreme value for reasons I don't comprehend. I was on a cruise a couple years ago and we went to an art auction on board (the people I was with wanted to go, was kind of dumb) and some of the paintings were just stupid and sold for absurd amounts. One picture literally just looked the guy knocked over a paint bucket and it spilled onto the paper, you could make it yourself for like $3, but it sold for over $5,000. It just doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Yes, there can be nice looking or even beautiful pictures, but the value some people put into them just boggles my mind.

It really just depends on the form of art, sculptures can look really cool and I could see how those could be valuable. Paintings though, not so much.

[Kalis]

I can't say that I've ever cried upon seeing a painting or sculpture, nor have I ever witnessed anyone else doing that.

It's fairly common for people to get emotional about music, photography or film though.

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Art as in music/books/tv/games/etc I enjoy and think they can be moving and emotional. Paintings, not so much.

I never understood why people like drawings/paintings so much, sure they can look nice to hang in your house because it's better than just having blank walls, but it never seem that exciting. Like the Mona Lisa, she's just an ugly girl with a creepy smirk, you couldn't pay me enough to hang that picture in my house, yet people make a huge deal over it. Lots of stupid/boring/ugly artwork has an extreme value for reasons I don't comprehend. I was on a cruise a couple years ago and we went to an art auction on board (the people I was with wanted to go, was kind of dumb) and some of the paintings were just stupid and sold for absurd amounts. One picture literally just looked the guy knocked over a paint bucket and it spilled onto the paper, you could make it yourself for like $3, but it sold for over $5,000. It just doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Yes, there can be nice looking or even beautiful pictures, but the value some people put into them just boggles my mind.

It really just depends on the form of art, sculptures can look really cool and I could see how those could be valuable. Paintings though, not so much.

In respect of The Mona Lisa, it's probably more to do with the artist than the picture itself.

[Deleted]

I can't say that I've ever cried upon seeing a painting or sculpture, nor have I ever witnessed anyone else doing that.

It's fairly common for people to get emotional about music, photography or film though.

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In respect of The Mona Lisa, it's probably more to do with the artist than the picture itself.

Also because of the skill required to produce such a painting.

[Deleted]

I can appreciate a clever made piece of art. Sadly a lot of todays modern art looks like a bunch of stuff nailed together and given a "deep" meaning, garbage I say!

[Venziir]

Define art. Are we talking paintings, movies, litterature, music...?

Paintings do very little for me I'm afraid, where as a good book, movie, game of music piece will move me to tears.

[Deleted]

I used to as a kid. Now just a glance is enough appreciation.

[Kalis]

Also because of the skill required to produce such a painting.

It's not that impressive though, in fact when I went to the Louvre, it would barely have been memorable compared to some of the other works there - the one of that French revolutionary woman with the flag, especially so.

The Mona Lisa is kind of meh - a picture of a woman with a background that looks wonky.

[Reeve]

I like and appreciate good art, but only rarely am I ever significantly moved by it. There's a particular piece hanging in my grandparent's house (an original) that was painted by China's foremost oil painter. It's a picture of a Chinese girl in a wooden building with the shadow of a beam playing over a part of her face, and she has the purest look of joy I've ever seen captured in paints. It's amazing. I want it soooo bad.

[Knight Gil]

I study art. Theatre, music, film, visual art, you name it. Obviously, I like art. But I used to not see the point in it. I just didn't know what was so special about, say, a painting or performance art, or even weird surrealist art movies. It seemed like there were many more interesting things to do, and the whole thing just seemed useless to me.

Let's say that since I started studying all of it, out of love for music, I opened my mind a lot more and I can honestly appreciate things I didn't use to.

The thing is, people don't like art because they don't understand it. The average person will bash modern art and love, say, Mona Lisa, because the former didn't look like it needed "skill" to do, and the latter does. They don't understand the train of thought behind modern art, and other forms of art of difficult comprehension, and that is what makes art so interesting, not merely technical skill.

But it's not really their fault. At least where I live, the educational system neglects art teaching. It's all about science, maths and etc, because those are seen as "useful" things, and they just can't see how much value art has, unless it is sold for thousands of dollars or is eye candy. But art is not about that. The true beauty of art is how it can open your mind, how it makes you think, the messages it brings within itself

I think art is pointless. It's a human pleasure that has no useful purpose.

This is not true. Some art is made to be unpleasant. To shock. The whole point of it is to make you think about certain things. Whether you like that piece of art or not, you'll discuss it with someone with a different opinion from yours. That makes it a very successful piece of art.

But even the art that is made for pleasure, why would it be pointless? What is the point of living if you can't have pleasure in it?

Also because of the skill required to produce such a painting.

You don't need that much skill, to be honest. Mona Lisa isn't a particularly realistic or complex portrait, far from it. Her proportions are way off. It's just the hype and the whole conspiration theories that make her so famous

[Volitar]

I love art. Albeit I love music more than I like visual art but it's still good.

[Deleted]

I study art. Theatre, music, film, visual art, you name it. Obviously, I like art. But I used to not see the point in it. I just didn't know what was so special about, say, a painting or performance art, or even weird surrealist art movies. It seemed like there were many more interesting things to do, and the whole thing just seemed useless to me.

Let's say that since I started studying all of it, out of love for music, I opened my mind a lot more and I can honestly appreciate things I didn't use to.

The thing is, people don't like art because they don't understand it. The average person will bash modern art and love, say, Mona Lisa, because the former didn't look like it needed "skill" to do, and the latter does. They don't understand the train of thought behind modern art, and other forms of art of difficult comprehension, and that is what makes art so interesting, not merely technical skill.

But it's not really their fault. At least where I live, the educational system neglects art teaching. It's all about science, maths and etc, because those are seen as "useful" things, and they just can't see how much value art has, unless it is sold for thousands of dollars or is eye candy. But art is not about that. The true beauty of art is how it can open your mind, how it makes you think, the messages it brings within itself




This is not true. Some art is made to be unpleasant. To shock. The whole point of it is to make you think about certain things. Whether you like that piece of art or not, you'll discuss it with someone with a different opinion from yours. That makes it a very successful piece of art.

But even the art that is made for pleasure, why would it be pointless? What is the point of living if you can't have pleasure in it?

By this I mean it is not essential to human existence. We would survive without art. It is absolutely pointless in every aspect, as it has no useful purpose. I should note this is my opinion and is not open to discussion unless you provide solid evidence to the contrary.

[Ladey Gags]

I study art. Theatre, music, film, visual art, you name it. Obviously, I like art. But I used to not see the point in it. I just didn't know what was so special about, say, a painting or performance art, or even weird surrealist art movies. It seemed like there were many more interesting things to do, and the whole thing just seemed useless to me.

Let's say that since I started studying all of it, out of love for music, I opened my mind a lot more and I can honestly appreciate things I didn't use to.

The thing is, people don't like art because they don't understand it. The average person will bash modern art and love, say, Mona Lisa, because the former didn't look like it needed "skill" to do, and the latter does. They don't understand the train of thought behind modern art, and other forms of art of difficult comprehension, and that is what makes art so interesting, not merely technical skill.

But it's not really their fault. At least where I live, the educational system neglects art teaching. It's all about science, maths and etc, because those are seen as "useful" things, and they just can't see how much value art has, unless it is sold for thousands of dollars or is eye candy. But art is not about that. The true beauty of art is how it can open your mind, how it makes you think, the messages it brings within itself




This is not true. Some art is made to be unpleasant. To shock. The whole point of it is to make you think about certain things. Whether you like that piece of art or not, you'll discuss it with someone with a different opinion from yours. That makes it a very successful piece of art.

But even the art that is made for pleasure, why would it be pointless? What is the point of living if you can't have pleasure in it?

This, definitely.

While I personally don't really ever get emotional necessarily, I can look at some pieces of art and understand it. However, a lot of people lack that ability. And with that comes ignorance. People who don't understand a lot of art feel the need to bash it and everyone who does appreciate it. It's unfortunate, but human nature.

[Deleted]

I like music if that can be considered an art. In terms of artistic drawings hell no; also modern art is retarded, that is all.

[Ladey Gags]

By this I mean it is not essential to human existence. We would survive without art. It is absolutely pointless in every aspect, as it has no useful purpose. I should note this is my opinion and is not open to discussion unless you provide solid evidence to the contrary.

Yes, but that isn't a very good reason to not like something or see it as pointless. If you think that way, then you should see anything that isn't eating, drinking, or sleeping as pointless and unnecessary for society. Which obviously isn't the case.

[Alixie]

Being an art major, I have to say I enjoy art. Not all art; modern art is mostly stupid, 2deep4U crap. In of my class's critiques, one fellow student presented pictures of a pinhole in a white wall. I still feel like facepalming to that...

But I respect and still view in awe of the works of the old masters. Bernini being a favorite master sculpture artist of mine. The amount of knowledge of religious mythology, the intelligence to create a scene from a story, and the pure skill to pull it off in marble. Movies and books explain everything for you, with art you have to have knowledge of the subject and the artist to get the full effect. Otherwise, Michelangelo's David is just a statue of a naked guy.

Speaking of Michelangelo's David, here's my favorite interpretation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_%28Bernini%29