Posted: Apr 22, 2011 5:50 pm
In order to appreciate and "get" abstract art a person has to go beyond being average and limiting oneself to the idea that art has to be pleasing or understandable and subjective. A person has to be cognitively advanced from the average.
Abstract art is a breaking away from expectations and dictates, it is an effort to explore technique or represent concepts and/or emotion or stir emotion; emotion and/or concepts being the subject rather than a subject/object being the subject.
IMO it is the average person who can only appreciate representational/subjective art because it is familiar and doesn't require much by the way of thought. But hey, to each their own.
I am glad I'm not average.
Abstract art is a breaking away from expectations and dictates, it is an effort to explore technique or represent concepts and/or emotion or stir emotion; emotion and/or concepts being the subject rather than a subject/object being the subject.
IMO it is the average person who can only appreciate representational/subjective art because it is familiar and doesn't require much by the way of thought. But hey, to each their own.
I am glad I'm not average.