I’m the one asking questions here. (But I liked this one
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Funny you used the word “shoot”, so I am going to explain my opinion hurtfully long for you and joyfully time-consuming for me.
It all goes back to the creation of human beings long long time ago, when art wasn’t invented yet. No creativity was involved, and men were living in caves. The time of everlasting boredom for human (Yes, my child. Exactly like The Croods. Never interrupt me again ). One day, one of the cavemen (or cavewomen; for the sake of not being called sexist), start doodling on the mod in the cave with a stick, because he was so bored that he could hear the sound of getting older; like me when I’m so bored that I would bite my keyboard waiting for you to write something on this topic
. Anyway, after a while he (or she; give me a break
) raised his head and looked at the mod which then he realized: “Holy mammoth, I’m very good with this stuff. I must be a genius”. And that was it. That’s how art was invented by humans.
But what is art. How can we describe an artistic work. A genius once said: “Art is a harmonic, balanced and somehow complicated piece of work created only by a human which is hard to perform, and not easy to copy, and it triggers a joyful emotion in people” (Ok, this is my own definition of art). Why did I define art, though? Because this definition determines the reason of different artistic tastes.
If you look at a piece of work which people say it is art, and you don’t feel you like it, then it’s not art for you. But why you don’t feel impressed when you see something that others approve as an artwork? (Whatever I said so far was a pile of rubbish; the important part is from now on )
Every human feels differently, and experiences different emotions in different situations (more or less). A mum feels different emotions from a teenage boy. A schoolgirl feels different emotions from a university professor, and ad infinitum. What I am trying to say (by painfully overusing the word “different” ), is that if you feel different, then naturally you see things differently. And that’s why we have different tastes. (Wake up!!! I’m finished.
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I’ll give you two options to end this discussion.
A) Whatevs
B) Any argument you want to add and torture yourself more.
Which one do you choose?