Thursday, February 17, 2011
Tolstoy's views
Our disscusions in class made me understand Tolstoy's views in greater depth. In his opinion if the artist did not convey the emotion in which the painting was originally made to convey then it was a failure in the art community. In my opinion this view holds the artist in full responcibilty rather than distibuting the failure/ success of the art equally on the artist as well as the audience. No two people can experience the same emotions from a painting, a persons happiness may be greater than another person's all though they are both feeling happiness. Therefore as someone mentioned in class, a spectrum of emotion would be more appropriate than just one general emotion. Tolstoy in my eyes was trying to dictate what art should or should not be art by being highly detailed in his views of what art is. His views show that he is trying to place boundaries on many modern art forms. Such as body art, tatooing an such art forms that werent widely recognized in his time.As you may tell I have a very strong opinion on what I believe is art, and it seems as if Tolstoy is excluding many art forms that have impacted many people although each person may have viewed the art piece differently. Art in my opinion is an artists attempt to show us the inner workings of their mind as well as their emotions, no one painting can convey their exact emotion due to the fact that at the time they may have felt many emotions, some that no matter how many people view the piece of art all the emotions will never be truly portrayed. Art to me is emotions, its an artists soul on canvas. How can an artist fail at portraying what they feel?
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