Prompt: Show an example of something you consider to be art. It can be any kind of art. Provide links or images as needed. Explain whether or not your example matches Tolstoy’s definition and whether or not you agree. If you choose to do this blog you must also present it in class.
Art is ones creative perspective that provides views into the artist reason behind the piece that can appeal to the audience’s senses or emotions. It always funny to ask this question of what do you consider to be art. Sometimes people say it’s similar to beauty and it’s in the eye of the beholder or its whatever the viewer or audience perceives it to be. Just like how one’s man’s trash is another man’s treasure. Tolstoy’s view on art is that a piece must be original and raw with feeling. It’s true to some extent if you happen to be the creator, but what about the audiences. They have different views obviously. My example is kind of silly but it’s always something that I’ve thought to be so beautiful and clean with much thought put into it. I guess you could say interior design is the general idea, but more so the stores that sell furniture and home furnishings. The big stores like IKEA and RC Willy. I don’t have an eye for furniture I just love going in to see how organized and coordinated everything is set up. All the colors are beautifully matched with the drawers symmetrical to the mirror or the way the tables are set up in the display showroom with the fake fruit centered and the glasses set up perfectly. It clearly someone’s job to make it look this nice but I really consider it to be art. Coincidentally I was just going through old pictures from prom of some of my friends and their first choice to take pictures was at IKEA. They looked like models straight out of magazine photoshoot. They were stunning. All because of the set up of a home furnishing store. Ideally, I believe that if anyone can put effort into what they’re doing it can be art. Similarly, people who write beautifully with so much purpose and flow I considered to be art. They have such a style that they continue to practice and master in order to achieve their goals and I think that’s what art is all about.
Just look at the picture above. It’s beautifully created to appeal to the buyers so they can buy what they think is suitable for their home environment. Albeit, the store’s goal is to sell expensive items, but in order to do so they have to appeal to the audience right. Look at the colors and the dynamic of each perfectly places chair. The lighting spotlights each piece perfectly.
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I’ve never looked at furniture stores in this way but by the way you describe it I can definitely understand how it is art since know I suck at decorating things.
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Really great blog I like how you showed the house set up picture and how you said one mans trash is another mans treasure, facts! great work.
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Another thing to think about is all the work that’s gone into the design, assembly, and even shipping. So much work was done by so many people just to make those displays possible. It reminds me the pencil metaphor where the wood for the pencil is grown by someone, the metal shaped by another, the eraser comes from someone else, as well as the lead. All the hard work of growing a tree and forging metal, then having someone else assemble these parts, as well as another person in charge of shipping. All of this for them to be sold in Staples for 10 cents. We often don’t think about everything that goes into our everyday, common items, and with this way of thinking almost everything has the potential to be art.
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