Can You Learn to Appreciate Art?
or are you just learning what is artistically correct to appreciate?
Dear friend,
It is not necessary to appreciate every form of Art.
Free.man
Yss, and no...
Its a personal thing
whether you can relate to the painting or not
Yes. If a person is open to it, then yes. Isn't this a matter of determination to understand something?
I think it depends on whether one is looking to interact with the work of art, or with the human hand and mind that was behind it. Art chronicles the journey of a human soul.
But I think too often we only see it through the filter of "what it does for me". (Which not coincidentally, I see as the same filter that shallows life and destroys relationships in the here and now!).
yes, yes I believe you can. I think that a big part of the purpose of art is to look at things you've seen before in a different way, which is learning by the very act of doing it. It follows that the more you learn the more you appreciate. In music, anyone can like Bach, for example, but I think the appreciation of "Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor" is greater when you understand the process of all that carrying on.
Yes you can learn to appreciate art. It is not about being correct, however.
Definitely. Start with appreciating the skill it took to create the art. And if it's not skill that is the focus, perhaps the intellect behind the work. Any art form, as far as I'm concerned, requires an effort that many of us are not willing to make. That effort might involve years of learning, years of practice seasoned with years of disappointment. And often the payoff isn't monetary, but simply the satisfaction of doing something well. There's a kind of integrity in that. I've learned to appreciate art on many levels.