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Originally Posted by triotary

That is why I mentioned Art is a very tacky, superficial and subjective issue.

But to say there’s no such thing as art is to say that there’s no such thing as religion.

Still I must say that one should not let rules or guidelines to restrict one's creation, else it will be just another subject that is the same as the rest of any the other subjects.

If Van Gogh painted just like what other impressionist had painted, we will not see the possibilities of textured brush strokes and amazing color palette. If Matisse, who can't draws, had chosen to learn to paint and draw like any other great artists, we will not have known that an unmatching set heavily saturated colors could be so astounding. If Picasso chose to draws and paint like what van Gogh did, we will not be able to enjoy the amazing composition of unbalanced perspectives of human beings and objects. If Duchamp did not provoked art, nobody would have questioned art. If every man who creates art follows a set of rules, art today will just be like art during the renaissance era.

If you look carefully at their paintings and compares to what society believes in beauty, you will not find any in them. Because beauty exists in them in a way on how they aroused our senses and ideologies.

Art is not in notions of beauty and representational rendering. Art does not needs explanation because it explains itself. It is a language that spoken to intrigue the eyes and provokes the brains.

Human being evolves because someone chose to go right when everybody else chose to go left.

When Van Gogh first started out he and his contemporaries were looked down on as not very good artists. Times change and what they did has been considered good. Therefore today much in the way of art is evaluated through the eyes of those who appreciate Van Gogh as a great artist. There are fundamentals in this form of art that have been added to the litany of fundamentals. Fundamentals that are studied along with the works of the Dutch Masters and earlier periods.

As I have said before many times good art challenges people to examine it and discovery what makes it great. Those characteristics make their way into the "rule books". As I have said before great art creates rules for the lesser of us to follow. Rules do not create art they only seek to define them. One follows these rules in hopes of learning the artistic thought process that created them, and to hopefully come up with an artistic identity of their own. In doing so their greatness of understand or creativity is added to the list and these too are examined and followed by those that come after.

People change, society changes, art, music, and literature changes, and the study of all of them changes. The rules, and I hate that word, are nothing more than an analysis of the techniques and skills produced by those that preceded us.