Artist Versus Art Lover: Different lnterprerions of Art Atr represents skill, intuition and professionalism. Art be volatile. lt may be hard to interpret. Still, it stirs the senses and the soul. Art is not confined to useful purpose. lt is not like a device or a machine that is used on a daily basis and serves a necessary function. The mission of art is to offer the art lover a work of genuine experience. Art should carry an adventurous spirit that aims as high as possible toward lofty ideals rather than just satisfying certain base purposes. lntelligence in the context of art is not necessarily expressible through language but rather through intuition. The fact that art can’t always be understood simply with words gives lovers of art a special challenge when trying to share its interpretation through the use of words. That is where art critics are pushed to a new and broader challenge. No matter how hard people try to use words to describe masterpieces, there is always something that can’t be explained in spoken or written language. A piece of work that is open for interpretation can create tension between the creator and the art lover because of the world of diverse meanings and feelings it can evoke. Though an artist creates a work by imparting it with his own meaning, it can be understood on many different levels by the person who is viewing it. At this point, the artist must relinquish creative control over his masterpiece, and let his work speak in its own language to others. In that sense, the creation may have meaning that goes beyond the intent of the creator. lt is how the work is seen through the eyes of others that takes the meaning of the creative work beyond the creator’s imagination. ln discussing appreciation of the great masterpieces, l would like to speak out about the growth of a troubling trend in the display of art not just in Korea but in the rest of the world. The trend that I’m talking about is the practice of companies and individuals to adorn their offices, homes, hotels, and restaurants, with imitations of the great artworks, fake representations that have no value and certainly no nuance. of course, if money were no object, genuine works of art that carry the mind to a loftier plane should decorate every abode. But of course this would be impossible. There simply are not enough genuine masterpieces to go around, nor is there the money to pay for them. The alternative is to fill the walls with original pictures, for exmple pictures created by children. If there is nothing original to hang, the better alternative would be to leave a blank wall. There is something empty about imitations masquerading as the real thing. They bring down the level of culture because the pretense is so obvious. from the heart. lmitations are but empty shells.
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