Random US Citizen an hour ago edited

Art is not subjective. That is a post-modern effort to deconstruct the idea of beauty. While there may be differences of opinion about the relative merit of particular pieces of art, anyone with the sense God gave a gnat knows that Mona Lisa is beautiful art, and a banana duct-taped to a piece of art board is not. Blue Boy is beautiful art, Pollocks' random spatters of paint on a canvas is not. Ansel Adams' Yosemite Park is a beautiful photograph, Rhein II is not.

Pretending otherwise is a surrender to the "fat is beautiful" crowd an their efforts to twist both reality and perception. //

bintexas Random US Citizen 32 minutes ago

What about Rubens? Is his art beautiful because it is ethereal or ugly because his interpretation of the female form wasnt svelte?

We believe Mona Lisa is beautiful because we have been conditioned to believe it. I am visiting the Louvre next month and will stand in a long line to take my turn gawking at it because it is just something the Western society has decided we must do. I dont know who decided this, I dont think she is particularly pretty.

I love the French Impressionists. The light and color makes me happy. But, a lot of ppl think it is cliché and I am simplistic in my taste.

Art like beauty absolutely is subjective. If there were only one standard, a whole lot of people would be eternally lonely or dead fighting for the few “perfect” specimens. //

Sam F. Jackson's favorite wor Random US Citizen 34 minutes ago

"Post-modern" and "deconstruction" are made up terms to sound fancy by the kernoozers.

Art and it's appeal should not require long-winded explanations.