What is Art???

I think that art is viewed differently to everyone. Art is opinionated, and everyone has their own opinion on what art is and what isn't art. "If only the spectators or auditors are infected by the feelings which the author has felt, it is art" (Leo Tolstoy). The way someone one considers art I think is how well they relate to it and wither they feel like them and the artist had a connection. If the person and relate to the art then they would have a better understanding on where the artist is coming from. "Art begins when one person, with the object of joining another or others to himself in one and the same feeling, expresses that feeling by certain external indications" (Leo Tolstoy). The more people that the artist can relate with they gain more popularity and people began to put that as their standard of art. I think that our opinion of art comes from a standard of art that the culture has already set. Art is based on personal standards and what you think is art.

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