I am placing this here because it is an aesthetics problem…
what is ART? what is its value? what is some ART considered to be
valuable and some ART is not?
look at the ART that we hold to have value? say, for example the Mona Lisa…
what gives the Mona Lisa its value? why is the Mona Lisa considered to
be the pinnacle of ''HIGH ART?" what make it so "valuable? to us?
compare the Mona Lisa to say Andy Warhol… what is the difference?
Warhol is considered to be “low brow” art… so what is the difference?
I point out that “HIGH” ART is art that has context… we can connect to
"HIGH ART’’ in a way that we cannot connect to “Low brow” art…
there is clearly a story behind the Mona Lisa… and you can read part of that
story in the actual painting itself…and in the painting of the woman in
the “Mona Lisa”…and that story give the painting context… and that is the
difference between “HIGH” art and “low brow” art… the context given
by the “HIGH ART” and the lack of context given by the “LOW BROW ART”
What context is given by Warhol’s famous Campbell’s soup “ART?”
It is easy enough to look up online…look it up… what context do you see
in one of Warhol’s prints? the Prints don’t tell a story, they give no context
to the print or the can of soup… that is the failure of Warhol… his art
doesn’t give us a story, some sort of context from the ART/soup can’s to us…
whereas the great ART does give us some context, a story…
take the play, considered to the the greatest play of the twentieth century,
“Death of a Salesman” it is great because it tells a story that resonant with
what we know of 20th century…it matches the story we know and that connection
is creates it context with us… and that is the point of context… context is
simply another form of connection…we connect to the ART… and that connection
is found in the ART context…personally I cannot connect to abstract ART, I don’t
see a story in Abstract art… and that lack of a story prevents me from
seeing context in the abstract ART…and therein lies the failure of modern ART…
it has no context to our lives today…We cannot find a connection
to modern ART… because it doesn’t tell us a story of who we are in
this modern age…ART has failed us in our modern
world because it doesn’t create a story for us to connect to…
Kropotkin