Week 1-3 Beauty vs. Repulsion

1)An example of "good art" in my opinion would be a piece that is well thought out and conveys a feeling or a concept. It does not have to be visually appealing, but I think it should speak something about the artist and their thoughts, or in the case of commercial art, it should convey what you are trying to say in an effective way. An example of this would be Vincent van Gogh's work (shown is the Church at Auvers). Many people of the time did not like it but his work spoke volumes about his personality and his feelings. His paintings were intense and expressive like he was. I think "bad art" is something drawn without any attention to planning and with no real meaning other than just something to hang on a wall. An example of this could be the painting here (Lucy in the Field with Flowers) by an unknown artist(painting is from the Museum of Bad Art :O). It has clashing colors and no real theme that I can see. Just not well planned out.

2)Honorific art is any art put in a place of honor by critics. It is given this place of honor based the "essential" parts the work has.

3) Classificatory art is anything created by an artist to be shown as art, and it is usually something that the audience can understand.

4)In the discussion of art and aesthetics, I get uncomfortable when people try to judge what art is based simply on the visual appeal (aesthetics). I would feel more comfortable if viewers would think more about WHY the artist did something a certain way, or created what they did, rather than HOW. Then the meaning is truly found.

5) My beauty drawing is going to be of sunflowers on a wood farm fence. The artist Nancy Blum illustrates my view of beauty because her drawings are brightly colored flowers, detailed, yet expressive. My repulsion drawing will be of a polluting factory with dark smoke surrounding it, next to a metal framwork. My views of repulsion are expressed well by Steve McClure because, in many of his drawings, he uses dark, hazy shading to give an eery or dark feeling.