Every human society displays some form of behavior that can be called ‘rt’, and in most societies other

than our
own arts play an integral part in social life.
Everything is art. The question is, are you conscious enough to see it?

Art is completely relative. There are no beautiful and bad art, it depends on many factors to the society one
belongs.

Art has to do with meaning and significance and attaching that to reality. Personal preferences, psychology and
physiology.

Culture – standards of art

Look at art as becoming conscious of the innate creativity and beauty of all reality. It depends on the context and
the significance you’re putting on it.

Delight in infinite creation, reality.

Art is in the eye of the beholder, everyone has their own interpretation

The more we talk about what art is, the more we learn what art means to us and understand what it means to
other people

Over the years, people tried to classify good art from bad art. Its about the personal experience with art and the
meaning that one draw from it. Everyone reacts to art differently and that creates a potential to grow and learn
from it.
Art does not necessarily be a thing of beauty alone; it can be quite disturbing. Art may be bad, good or
indifferent, but bad art is still an art.
Elements of arts formal way to analyze artistic components

Art is an escape. Escaping from reality

Function

Art that is socio-politically inclined

Strive to provide a counterpoint to the prevailing images of power and to the stereotypes fed to us by the media
Art is in a sense political, people freedom to act freedom to express themselves, taking a position

It is impossible to quantify and qualify how art affects the viewers One cannot be predict the way it affects
people change their mind or influence their behavior, but it changes the world one perception at a time

Art can change the way how we think

Challenges the given
Opens horizons
Challenges and exposes the views of the world

Testifies the power of the human imagination to reflect on things and on their selves
Art advocates difference and gives voice to other

Barometer of society
Human beings appear to have a compulsion to categorize, to organize and define. We seek to impose
order on a welter of sense-impressions and memories, seeing regularities and patterns in repetitions
and associations, always on the lookout for correlations, eager to determine cause and effect, so that we
might give sense to what might otherwise seem random and inconsequential. However, particularly in
the last century, we have also learned to take pleasure in the reflection of unstructured perceptions; our
artistic ways of seeing and listening have expanded to encompass disharmony and irregularity.

The fact is, we are all different, and all see the world in a multitude of ways. To lay down a blanket
statement about what constitutes good or bad art is never going to allow for these differences. Art is
often a personal matter, with depictions of scenes, or passages in books perfectly mirroring one
person’s life experiences, but sounding foreign and alien to another who has never come across the
same event.

This approach holds that assessing the significance or value of an artwork cannot be done without
knowledge of its social and cultural context (Hobbs & Rush, 1997).

Hobbs, Jack A., and Jean C. Rush. Teaching Children Art. Waveland Press, 1997.

Art being eternally connected to society and its subjects, it inherently political in nature. It
symbolizes the holistic opinion of society, making any art created as a reflection of society,
essentially propaganda for that society.

we can say that art is political in a sense. It embodies a perception or a diagnosis of community,
instigated by one’s freedom to take a position, convey, and express.