Good Art and Bad Art

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Theres a quote that says “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”. I feel like this

quote is on point directly with art. Art is in the eye of the beholder. What someone

could think is good art, another could think is bad art. For me, i don't have any criteria

on what a piece has to have to be good art, i just have to like it. Same goes for bad art,

if i don't like it, i just don't like it.

In my Art textbook on page 115, Charles Searles’ filas for sale is an amazing

piece that i would consider ‘Good Art’. Its a darker painting with a lot of colors in it. I

like this painting alot because it confuses me, i have no clue what im looking at. It

makes me look deeper into it because of that. Theres faces and hands and arms so

there are people in this painting. As to what there doing i have no clue, but that also

kind of adds to why i like it. My imagination gets to run wild with it, they can be doing

whatever i want them to be doing. To me, with all the different shapes, colors, faces,

hands, and everything else in it, all of these things make it a fun painting to look at.

Having all these features, makes good art.

On page 64 in my Art textbook, Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing No. 681 C is a perfect

example of bad art, to me at least. A big wall that has 4 different blocks divided by a

black borded, inside each block are diagonal or parallel lines of different colors. This

painting makes no sense to me. All it is, is different color lines.. on a wall. This piece

doesn't say anything to me, nor is it fun to look at. The simplicity of it is the downfall i

guess you could say. When i look at this painting i don't have to think, i cant use my

mind. its just color lines on a wall. Also, anyone could paint that, and thats a major

downfall to me. Everything about this piece, is the
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