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A 5 page paper examining whether art can provide knowledge, or whether that knowledge instead is resident within the individual but unrealized until the experience of the art reveals it. Whether the individual is able to either recognize or access that knowledge is immaterial. When art can bring forth an understanding, it is not providing knowledge per se, but rather providing a framework in which that knowledge can be contained and translated to the conscious mind of its viewer. It is within this context that the work of Warhol becomes important, and Picasso's Weeping Women series portrays not only the image of pain, but also conveys an understanding of it. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Hickey gives a 90s twist to the age-old saying of "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder," but also lays the boundaries within which to examine the relationship between
beauty and the soul, and whether art can provide knowledge, or whether that knowledge elicited by art is fully resident within the soul, though previously unrealized. Hickeys views have
been vilified by mainstream art publications, which claim that he advocates "pretty" in preference to reality, which often has no beauty to it.
Instead, he claims, one of the roles of art is to create a community of souls with common desires and common views, giving the example of Andy Warhols "democracy of
objects" (Knight 3). "What does art do? he asks, answering his own question by reversing a usual assumption. What art does is create an art world--although most people
mistakenly think it happens the other way around, that the art world creates art. And insofar as the art world is part of all other worlds, it has social
consequence. He elaborates by citing the big, brightly colored Pop pictures of flowers in a grassy field that Warhol cribbed in 1964 from a dumb advertising photograph he found
in a commercial seed catalog. I thought they were great, Hickey enthuses. Those paintings were the opposite of anything anybody ever told me to like. They didnt
have one single signifier of artistic quality!" (Knight 3). Therein lies the power of art as it relates to knowledge. Though Warhols
paintings had no trace of "merit" as it was understood in the art world, they nonetheless had profound effect on Hickey, as well as on others. That Warhols paintings
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