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This paper discusses three aspects of art: the “art and life” idea found in actual lived experience and the idea of art as a social production. The third point, how more recent works in these areas compare with the practices of historical artists, is discussed generally throughout the paper. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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entire concept. This paper discusses three aspects of art: the "art and life" idea found in actual lived experience and the idea of art as a social production. The third
point, how more recent works in these areas compare with the practices of historical artists, is discussed generally throughout the paper. Discussion At times, people look at contemporary art and
shake their heads. A Kiki Smith sculpture of a woman crawling naked across the floor, trailing excrement behind her, is outside their experience. They may consider it gross, disturbing or
just in bad taste, but art? Never. Art is Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Raphael and Velasquez; Cezanne and Monet and Renoir-not Warhol. The stuff on these walls, they say, looks like something
my 4-year old could draw. And some of it is so revolting I want to puke. Whats going on here? The answer is so simple its become a clich?: art,
like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. But much of contemporary art makes no attempt to define or express beauty, instead it seems to celebrate ugliness, filth and
disease. This, it can be argued, is part of the idea of "art as life"-a reflection of what the artists see in the world around them. One might legitimately ask
why todays artists see nothing but ugliness and degradation when there are still so many lovely things left in the world. It may be that they are self-indulgent, a point
addressed by Zinsmeister in a hilarious article, quoted later in this essay. For now, lets simply consider that much of contemporary art seems extremely unpleasant, some of it is bizarre,
and some of it is abstract to the point of confusion. But above all, art is subjective and what confuses one person may delight another. One clue to the controversy
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