Good Art Bad Art ( Assignment #1 )

Veronica Cajamarca
HUA 101.2644
Ari Richter

Good Art Bad Art

To me Art is in the eye of the beholder. I believe that art can be absolutely anything you want it to be. However, the best way to judge if art is "good" or "bad" is by the reaction and emotion that it invokes from the viewer. The stronger the response, the stronger the "work of art is." All we have is our own opinions to base art on. It doesn't matter if something is considered great works of art, peoples choice of preference determines if "Art" is a classic or if it unappealing to there taste. However to me and it doesn't matter what others think, I base art on a the truth of what you can feel or see in the art based on the concept. For example, I have been to the Chicago Art Museum. I know that I truly enjoy such greats Art like Monet, Georgia O'Keeffe, Georges Surat, Vincent Van Gogh, Pirre Renoir, also the likes of Donatello who made the statute of "David". To me these are priceless works of art.

To have a conception or a notion that art could be "bad art" I would only refer to my arts of drawings as perhaps "bad." When it comes to drawing something, I can only get out a picture of someone being a stick figure. whether it is a horse or a human it seems to come out round or in an image of a stick figure. On the other hand someone like Michelangelo can paint The Last Judgement on the Sistine Chapel. Bad art is only "bad" when you don't feel anything for what the artist is trying to portray. Bad art is when the viewer is a critic of not understanding the design. Bad art could be when the peace of "art" has no sense of character in it.

However, I recently discovered that there is a museum dedicate to "bad art".
located at this link: www.museumofbadart.org
I would love to go and see what is considered bad art at this museum. If "bad art" is being coveted in a museum then to me there can't be in anyway true pieces of art that is "BAD".You get to determine what is good and bad art through you own opinion but it's completely subjective. You can try to trust 'authorities' to make these judgements for you, but it's much more fun to make them yourself. I also would love nothing more than to be able to visit the Louvre Museum in Paris, France I would be in heaven if I got to visit all the works of art there that would be true fun.

But overall, there has to be some objectivity to judging art. For example, I could think that statutes of "naked people" are grotesque and very "bad" pieces of art. So maybe the words good and bad are inadequate because they are subjectivity and relativity. The truth is relative means "the truth is in relation to someone else's truth" as it was established to judge the artwork. If we say a "work of art is bad" then we are relating it to "other pieces of art" that was already considered to be bad and vise verse for good art.

It is based all subjectivity on one's opinion. Good or bad, ART is ART period.

"Sunday on the Pot With George" from the Museum of Bad Art. This pointillist piece is curious for meticulous attention to fine detail such as the stitching around the edge, of the towel, in contrast to the almost careless disregard for the subject's feet.

                           

Edvard Munch’s iconic "The Scream" from the Museum of Modern Art. It's among the most celebrated and recognized images in art history and on display to be seen right now at the museum.

So which of these pieces of art is "labeled" Good Art or Bad Art. you decide and comment. thanks your classmate, Veronica