Art

Christine Bridger 

12-9-15

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Art
Art is confusing. Art is creative. Art is beautiful. It truly is a patient persons works. I have never really understood art and what it represents and how much time and effort that is put into it that makes it what it is. Just like technology and medicine has come a long ways from what it used to be in the fourteenth and fifteenth century, art has also come a long ways as well. And what is great about art is that if you are a professional, the more time that passes (always after your death) is that it becomes more vulnerable. But what I find interesting is are the different perspectives and ideas and opinions and beauty that people have about art. Like someone can find a painting extremely beautiful and thought provoking but others see an ugly and disturbing piece of work. Who decides what or how makes a piece of art beautiful or ugly? Why do they get to determine that. Because if art is this crazy thing that makes people think of things differently, why do some artist become famous or not? Like how or why did Leonardo da Vinci become super famous? Why is Vincent Van Gogh famous? How did Michelangelo become one of world's most famous artists? Why is Monet and Picasso such a big deal? My question is more how did these men develop their image to what it is now? How are they still so famous up till now? They are dead so why are they still talked about? They were many artists from that time period so what made these men so well known? Why is Leonardo da Vinci’s painting of the Mona Lisa so famous. No offense to her, but she is not the best looker or even smiling for that matter of fact. So how is it that a 2′ 6′′ x 1′ 9′′ painting of a women is one of the world’s prized pieces of art?