Adam Schwabacher
What
makes art a piece of art? Is it the type of thing that it is capturing or is it
how creative the picture is? Art is a form of human expression, this is a way
of how humans express their feelings or how the view a certain thing in the world.
Other things that humans use to express themselves are music and poems. There
are two theories that we use to identify art, which is called formalism and
romanticism. Formalism is a way to view
art on what you see. Like for example when you look at Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry
Night you see a night sky and houses. Romanticism is the way to view art and
feel emotion to it. I believe that in
order to enjoy the full aspect of art to need to view it with a Romanticism
type of aspect.
When you are able
to use Romanticism it is easier to appreciate the arts. You are able to use
feelings and emotions toward different types of art. For example if you were to look this picture of a
sad clown you would feel conflicted because of the fact that clowns are supposed
to be happy. You could see a picture that he had been through a lot of stress
or have seen horrible things. You are also kind of sad because of the fact that
he is unhappy. Clowns are now for being happy and spreading there happiness to
other people. As the audience you want the clown to be happy and silly but instead
he is very depressed looking. If you
were to look this with a formalistic view the you would just see a sad clown
and wouldn’t feel anything towards him.
The
explanatory breath in Romanticism is when you are enjoying the artwork and you
can relate to it. Artist use this by having a hidden meaning in their work. If
you look at with a formalist aspect you could never enjoy it as much because
you are just looking at its physical appearance.
Also
Romanticism has more explanatory depth then formalism. Due to the fact when you
are a formalist and you are just looking at other than having an emotional pull
towered the artwork. An example of this is the Mona Lisa, rather than looking at
this as just a sad women, you want to know why she is sad and what has happened
in her life.
In
the since of simplicity formalism has more simplicity then romanticism. This is
caused due to the fact you are not able to get the full effect of something
just by looking at it. Unless you able to feel for the painting and enjoy both
the emotional and physical characteristics in it then you will never appreciate
it as much.
1. Romanticism
and Formalist are the best way to enjoy art
2. Romanticism
is known for more explanatory depth and breath, while formalism is known for
more simplicity.
3. Therefore
Romanticism is the best way to enjoy the arts.
I agree that romanticism is the best way to enjoy art and I also like the picture that you chose. I like the way you used the Mona Lisa as an example about the way she looks and why he painted her looking sad
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ReplyDeleteI really enjoy the piece of art you chose to exemplify romanticism because I think it shows how art is made up of both, rational elements as well as non-rational emotion. However, I think that your argument is missing a couple of key parts. Though you did argue for explanatory breadth, explanatory depth, and simplicity well to support your view and ideas toward romanticism, you left out a couple of key arguments such as conservatism and predictive power that you should have included to strength your point even more. By leaving out conservatism and predictive power, your argument isn't as strong as it could be because those two elements are key to fully supporting your views. Because you left those two out, I think it also messed up your inference to the best explanation argument at the end. You missed out on using all of the five parts (breadth, depth, simplicity, conservatism, predictive power) which makes your inference to the best explanation argument incomplete. To fix this problem, you could just include two more short paragraphs to argue how each of those two elements support romanticism and your artwork and then include them in your inference to the best explanation argument to make your writing and your overall point of view more complete and with more strength. In addition, I also think your inference to the best explanation argument could have been better written if you just left out formalism because you are supposed to be arguing how your theory (romanticism) best interprets the meaning of the piece of art you chose, not the differences between romanticism and formalism. You only need to include the theory you chose, not both.
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