Art is beautiful

Art is beautiful
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WHY ART MATTERS!

With time, and historical events, art changes all the time and in today's society art could be considered nearly everything. Influences such as the camera, which was invented by Nicéphore Niépce in 1825, created new styles and changed the meaning of a painting. Before the camera, paintings would "capture reality in detail" and represent status. Certain objects in paintings would represent important meanings and the more detailed the painting, the more impressive it was. But once the camera was invented, it was no longer necessary to paint in detail and many artists began to paint abstract and focused on other things as colors, composition and personal style.
The problem with art is, everyone can interpret it differently. To my mind art has a major influence on society and can express opinions/world views much more than one realizes.
In today's news, one can use art, as for instance cartoons to express political views and comment on current events. For example, the most discussed cartoons in the press are probably the 12 cartoons of Muhammad, published in several European newspapers, as for instance the danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten on September the 30th 2005. Muhammad, the Muslim Prophet, was shown in many different humorous situations and many Muslims felt it was too much of a deliberate offensive joke that should not be taken in a humorous way. Cartoonists were asked to express their opinions about the Islam and it was not intended to provoke anyone directly, but some Islamic radicals took them to the Middle East and that's when the violent reactions began. Danish Embassies were burned only because of the cartoons published in the newspapers. This is when I began to wonder how art can have such an intense influence in the world. Cartoons, which is considered as art can provoke and unnecessarily cause problems in society when at the same time it is something so beautiful.
Just click on the link below and you will be able to see the 12 cartoons that were published.
http://www.hissheep.org/islam/images/12drawings.jpg

Sunday, May 8, 2011

What is Street Art?

 Today art can nearly be described as anything. Art has so many different categories and is full of variety, how is one supposed to know if it is really worth anything. Does art always have to have a money value? Can one create art just for the basic point of wanting to share ones talent or ideas with others?
Many people criticize street art of not being art, but rather more a different form of graffiti, which is usually seen as vandalism. Others on the other hand consider street art to be a form of expressing ones opinion in public. In the recent years, Street Art has become more and more popular amongst young people, probably because of it's provocative and usually illegal agenda. Art does not always only have to be something beautiful to admire and to be "hung up to someones living-room wall". Today art is shocking and provoking what what better place to publish art than openly on the streets? Anyone should be able to express themselves, if it does not harm anyone.
Ever payed real close attention to the traffic lights when walking around in Prague in 2007? Czech street artist David Brudnak, also known as Roman Tyc, decided to "decorate" traffic lights and put them up all around the city. He changed the ordinary sign of a man on the traffic light, to different pictures as for example a woman with a child or maybe more provocative, a man peeing. He was arrested and fined 2400 euros for violating the cities properties. Of course many people argue that one can not consider this art, but then again, it is something he created and got peoples attention from it. He made something ordinary different and gave it a personal touch. Did it hurt anyone? No, so why should this be much of a problem?
Art changes all the time and Street Art is becoming more and more popular around the world today. People spot their favorite artists around the world and post it for instance on their facebook wall, only to wait for a comment of one of their friends "liking" it. This is all part of art in today's society.





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  1. Ivana ŽákováMay 13, 2011 at 11:46 AM

    I agree that graffiti can be considered as art and I really like most of them but I would not be very happy if someone painted my own house like that. There should be definitely some law about graffiti that allows some amount of them according to special rules. For example in Slovakia, as it is a hosting country of World Hockey Championship, the government allowed young talented people to decorate the underpass in Bratislava. It is very successful and everybody who passes it likes it. These people didn’t get any money for it, they were just provided with sprays and other needed material but they were happy to show their skills legally.

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