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your art is good when it triggers emotions in those who consume it. your art is excellent if you can capture your emotions in it your art is masterwork if you
by throwaway14356 3y ago
your art is good when it triggers emotions in those who consume it.
your art is excellent if you can capture your emotions in it
your art is masterwork if you can design your emotions for capture.
- hmm37 3y agoIt can't be just any emotion. Or at least not according to Clive Bell's theory. If it just requires emotional response many things could create emotional responses but not necessarily be art, e.g. reading a simple newspaper article, or some news broadcast. Bell states that there needs to be an "aesthetics experience" produce by "significant form". My understanding of "significant form" is that if you were to look at the piece, with no knowledge whatsoever what it is, you would still feel a sense of "aesthetic emotion" due to the form of the object, and how it's put together. That's what he considered art. E.g. people can look at a Mondrian piece devoid of meaning, but yet get an "aesthetics experience" from it.