RE: Quality in the arts
October 13, 2018 at 4:54 am
(This post was last modified: October 13, 2018 at 4:55 am by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
Now you've got the trouble of defining 'better' and explaining why originality is better than clichés.
I think that attempting to view art objectively is doomed to failure, as art and art appreciation is inherently subjective. By way of example, which of these two sculptures is 'better':
![[Image: 00241.jpg]](https://frenchsculpture.org/sites/all/themes/nasher/assets/images/sculptures/00241.jpg)
or
![[Image: david.jpg]](https://www.michelangelo.org/images/artworks/david.jpg)
And why?
Boru
I think that attempting to view art objectively is doomed to failure, as art and art appreciation is inherently subjective. By way of example, which of these two sculptures is 'better':
![[Image: 00241.jpg]](https://frenchsculpture.org/sites/all/themes/nasher/assets/images/sculptures/00241.jpg)
or
![[Image: david.jpg]](https://www.michelangelo.org/images/artworks/david.jpg)
And why?
Boru
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