Blame it on Marcel Duchamp, the French artist who in 1917 brought in a regular porcelain urinal, signed it R. mutt & installed it at a gallery. A century later, still art critics & students of art are divided over the question of ‘what is art’.
Art for Marcel Duchamp & a lot of people is ‘what you think is art’. This approach & philosophy of art blends well with the thinking of liberal humanist philosophers like Jean-Jacques Rousseau who famously defined ‘good’ & ‘bad’ as ‘what you feel good is good & what you feel to be bad is bad’.
Humanism & nearly all it’s offshoots that sprang up & flourished in the last hundred years of so measure everything in terms of our ‘feelings’.
What is art? Anything that you think is art is art. What is good? What you feel to be good is good. What is beauty? Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
Blame it on Marcel Duchamp, the French artist who in 1917 brought in a regular porcelain urinal, signed it R. mutt & installed it at a gallery. A century later, still art critics & students of art are divided over the question of ‘what is art’.
ReplyDeleteArt for Marcel Duchamp & a lot of people is ‘what you think is art’. This approach & philosophy of art blends well with the thinking of liberal humanist philosophers like Jean-Jacques Rousseau who famously defined ‘good’ & ‘bad’ as ‘what you feel good is good & what you feel to be bad is bad’.
Humanism & nearly all it’s offshoots that sprang up & flourished in the last hundred years of so measure everything in terms of our ‘feelings’.
What is art? Anything that you think is art is art. What is good? What you feel to be good is good. What is beauty? Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.