Essay Archive - Can We Debate Art?
Can We Debate Art?
When I first began thinking about this topic, it seemed as if it was a fairly simple subject. Of course, we could debate art. Critics and the average citizens have done it for years, debating over which pieces are their favorites. As I began to think about the subject and received feedback from the class, this topic became infinitely more complicated with questions like: what is art, could we see that one person’s art is better than another’s, and why is it (and justified) that people such as Van Gogh and Picasso have become famous? Looking back....
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