Framing Our Composition on Art

Defining Art 

To differentiate between the two ideas: ‘art is subjective, and therefore, everything could be art’, and the idea of what is generally received and becomes appreciated as art amongst a group, we should first create some sort of defining framework for what art is.  And it’s also pleasant to have some idea, as to why you respond to something in a particular way. To in a way, map your emotional reception as a way of knowing yourself. So here we are evaluating how we humans perceive art (generally speaking). I’ll make suggestions, and you think to yourself if you agree or disagree.  

Art is a frequency of how one emotes that might not be easily translated across intelligence, almost as if in need of decoding, by the individual receiving. To transport you into a different time. Get a sense of the norm of those days. The ideas and beliefs, step into not just the artist’s shoes, but transpire into the culture the artist came from. It gives an emotional experience. It resonates with the senses. Inspires wonder. It compels? It invokes a state of change inside the consciousness. It can summon memories and give rise to hopes and fears. Even for the portrayal of powerful experiences, like an exposure to paths of proliferation, or exemplified in one’s own destruction.  

Could we say art changes? Would depend on the final product’s reveal for uncommon is it an idea remains as pure as it was at conceptualisation. And instead, changes and develops into something more founded and grounded as the idea itself, is researched or explored, even introduced. Art is a way of life, a perception one can live by. It can even stand as someone’s belief as an ideal for them to stay true to, and assure their head continue to be placed upon their shoulders.  

Visual Arts 

Available in two and three dimensions. Visual arts include: Photography and cinema. Something the requires a machine to capture the light of an alignment in time of what already exists. Sculpturing, architecture (though many tend to reserve that into its own category), canvas based arts like paintings but also digital art, which then perhaps extends into game design? With digital art and game design once not being considered art at all when it first became popular, and rejected as such. 

Performing Arts 

Performing arts is an artform that expand into a kinetic realm. Like theatre. The emotional tension of drama. The suspense is killing me. Of which I’d include here even humour if I do say so myself. And on the subjective of bodily moving arts, what of then martial arts? To express the body.  

Musical Arts 

Another extremely popular interpretation of art is audible art, in the form of music that comes in a variety of genres. The invisible matrix of rhythm and scales, of techniques in melody and harmony bound together, guided by intuition and feeling.  Some genres, like classical, more respected and considered art than others, like dubstep…  

Culinary Arts 

Art in large part explores our sensory interaction. But most notably seems to be visual and sound forms. Is that then the primary ‘human interpretation’ of art? If we had an intelligent comparable? What about creating arts based on smells? Too fleeting? Though chefs are sometimes praised as artists and practice culinary arts of both taste and smell, to combine the perfect blend of aroma and flavours, that sometimes is paired as an array for a complete experience. This is somewhat of a tasting itself.

Though to cheffing (it is a word) as an artform, does have a strong visual component.  Chefs that are dedicated are conductors of hunger. Exploring new ways to bring out the appreciation of taste from something some might not even think they’d like. From this observation. We could say also that art comes with it an emotional aspect, as without the ghrelin of hunger compelling the individual, the attraction to food could have little to no affect. 

Literary Arts 

What of a more noetic form of art? That involves heavy use of the imagination? Like perfectly placed and sequential ideas? That require education in that language to appreciate. Written arts like a poem.

For all art, but perhaps most of all writing, lies in intelligence like that of a complex but well-structured novel? In captivated in encapsulation of metaphor, or is it the non-physical reflection of archetypal echo? Resembling philosophical or mathematical abstract forces in our universe conveyed in a presented idea to ignite emotions.

Maybe get a bit of poetic justice in there, and let virtue triumph over vice. And give you that good feeling. Or relate to the natural law of real life loss. Or the story of our time. Stories bound to human nature, you’ve noticed little glimpses manifest in your own life’s periphery, and here laid out tells us the tale of what we might just do should we find ourselves in a similar situation.   

Expression 

Emotion, difficult to define. Without using assigned words, like anger for anger, or even without words at all, how would you declare what your emotions are? How would you do what you would feel obliged as a human being to do, that is to show them? Use art? But, for a piece of art to project emotion, first emotion has to be put into the art. Be shown in some way in their inspiration. For what the spectator may want, is to feel like they’ve met the artist in a way, having never even been introduced.  As to be awakened by their passion.  

Creativity 

To simply, create? Or to create the unseen? The unthinkable? The unusual. The original. The spontaneous that “works” rather than being abrupt. The surprise, and how that makes one feel. Left out, or wanting. A challenge to understand it. A sense of the future. Or even feeling a little dumbfounded, is that awe? To think outside the box. To reimagine, rearrange, combine different variables of old and new. And how that’s done is anyone’s guess. How exactly do new ideas form? The art of associating unlikely connections? Sometimes you don’t even need to do anything but enter the defuse. 

Detail 

What about vividness? The fine texturization. The contrasts. The transitions. The colour collections ensemble. The Trills.  The richness and vibrancy. Infusions. Not faint, not tinny but full and radiant. As if a surge like your brain jolted, no longer starved of sugar.  What about complexity? The depth with hidden reference and tribute intertwined. Nuance and subtly that could change a piece entirely based on position. Even then send multiple messages at once. A message that might only be able to be translated, by those skillful enough to appreciate it.

Skill 

And alongside detail comes skill. Skill could come from practice. Skill could come from something as miscellaneous as talent. Skill could even come from suffering.  

By which the approach the artist takes strays from the conventional amateurish attempt. Knowing full well the motivating consequences to fail capability. And the spectator has expectations and demands. Show me how, what you endured through your endeavour, transformed and mutated you. 

Should art possess skill? Does skill dictate art? Something to admire beyond the piece themselves – the artist – as they flaunt what we don’t have. And the proof of this. A portfolio. A back catalogue. A reputation.  Is art not in a way, a sign of someone’s accomplishments by default? By the level they are at, enough to be able to portray what it is they imagine from nothing.

With skill then, comes intent. Is that not counterintuitive to spontaneousness? Or do we assume it’s all plotted for show? And can we then dismiss accidents as art? Is there ever such a thing? What of then unintended outcomes, that may appear in nature? Does art have to mean something, and be forced into life?  Can a being like a baby, be incapable of creating art? Art could be considered a hierarchy. A pinnacle ever rising for those that study the purity of the subject, and make something magnificent out of it.  

SPECIAL  

What is it that makes something special? Uniqueness? Sentimentality? Belief? Identity? Perseverance and effort? By someone endearing of these attributes? Something exceptional, based on what was normal at the time? Someone truly special, cursed by their own gifts.  Or of a masterpiece combined of an accumulation of resources, particularly those that are rare and hard to acquire and not to be wasted.  

This concept of speciality, as if selected is most definitely a human desire. A desire, to be desired of which art then deemed special could be claimed for oneself, so they can then feel through their ownership, that they too are now special and revered like the art as the ego melds. And of course, should the magical illusion of what makes that special be removed, there would be, threat.  

But is art itself as it is by the virtue of its being, not already special? What about nobility in art?  Art has to have a bit of class. A bit of finesse. Art is something to be traded for in the human emotional currency known as respect. Like doing things ‘properly’ and ‘officially’, not short cuts and producing a cheap knock off. Doing something admirable, creating that desire by embodying an ideal as to what the spectator knows deep down is the right thing to do as to how to go about creating that piece. As if it should already be something before it is.  

The Artist 

Sometimes you observe things not for what they are but where they’ve come from. For what they’ve been built upon and represent. If there was a fantastic piece of art, ticking every box. But then it was later learned, the artist just did it for a quick bit of spare cash (does anybody have any spare cash?) How would that make the viewer see the art and the artist, as if two separate entities? What if no dirt was besmirched the reputation, however the artist hated what they created. They felt it was forced. It causes stress. It’s not a joyful memory to them, would the spectator see things the same? Would they have pity on the art for the bad energy bestowed? 

If there was a brilliant artist. But then you found out they had committed some horrendous crimes, would yours and the public’s appreciation of their work change? Though it’s possible that be a cultural thing of our time if looking at a historic figure. The sense of character of the individual, the kind of ‘soul’, they are, also becomes factorised into art. A clash of inner opposing projections then disassociate from that considered “bad” thing and how our perceptions are altered by identities.