(January 5, 2015 at 3:33 pm)abaris Wrote: Yeah, but it says nothing about people liking it. You can create art solely for your own enjoyment, fulfilment or whatever you might call it. But you can't create a video game or a movie in the same way. That's where you need an audience and both mediums only are created with an audience in mind.
Okay, now you're getting into how art has to conform to a consumer marketplace.
You see, art, at its essence, is an expression. Art is created so the artist can express a feeling, opinion or whatever they choose. How the audience reacts to that expression is secondary. Now, the audience does need to come into consideration when you're trying to understand how to communicate your expression, but ultimately, the expression comes from the artist.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
