What is art?

Doukei
2 min readApr 23, 2021

“What is art?” “What is not art” is Picasso’s answer. Some people may think that this is a mystery, but this is indeed a rare and simple answer among artists.

The following are personal views, welcome to discuss. In most cases, “art” and “beauty” talk about the same thing (discussed below), but the definition of “beauty” is broad, not only includes all kinds of “Japanese”, “fresh” and “beautiful” “Pretty” also includes “exciting”, “moving”, “shocking”, “unexpected” and so on.

For example, is a thriller “beautiful”? I think it is. If it is not, people will not watch it. Is the jumping machine “beautiful”, I also think it is, if it is not, everyone will not play. There are countless examples of this. It is possible to find out the cause of “beauty” by almost arbitrarily uttering an activity that human beings voluntarily complete, or arbitrarily uttering an idiom to describe sensory pleasure.

The “Introduction to Art” that I studied in college has a definition of beauty, which is probably “beauty is a person’s spiritual stimulation, spiritual shock, and spiritual enjoyment”. In my opinion, the most essential source of “beauty” and “art” is human psychology, which is the satisfaction of the psychological needs of groups or individuals. But the meaning of art was destined to be different from “beauty” as early as when there were artists.

The reason is that the direction of the artist leads the direction of the art field, and the psychology of the artists, who have seen the works of the predecessors and who are accompanied by “beauty” all day, determines their direction and preferences. As I said just now, it is precise because the artists as a group have a more abundant experience of beauty, a major psychological effect of people has emerged, that is, “aesthetic fatigue”. Tired of the beauty in contact, there is a driving force for innovation and breakthrough.

“The first person who compares a woman to a flower is a genius, the second is a mediocrity, and the third is a stupid talent.” This is the truth. Throughout the history of art development, and even the development history of a genre, the later generations have developed through the breakthroughs of the previous generations. Therefore, the aesthetic inclination of artists is destined to be different from that of the public, and artists are the leaders of art. Therefore, there is a distinction between “art” and “beauty”.

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