I can "get" some art in that I understand what the artist intended to express sometimes. There are times when I don't bother because I don't think there's anything to understand. If an artist takes a 3 x 3 canvas and paints a small blue square in one of the corners, perhaps it speaks to his sense of isolation and depression in a white-dominated world. Or maybe he mindlessly squashed a gnat while he was mixing his paints, and decided that THIS MEANS SOMETHING.
I take the approach that art is to be enjoyed. Sometimes that means seeing the meaning in a work, sometimes that means not wanting to make the effort to try and figure out the meaning behind a work. It might also mean moving on to the next piece if the work in question isn't enjoyable to look at and doesn't make sense to me when it's explained.
I take the approach that art is to be enjoyed. Sometimes that means seeing the meaning in a work, sometimes that means not wanting to make the effort to try and figure out the meaning behind a work. It might also mean moving on to the next piece if the work in question isn't enjoyable to look at and doesn't make sense to me when it's explained.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
