Art defined

Art is defined when the creator of the piece of artwork has something to express to the world or viewers. Art is not just about making it beautiful or just a piece of craft work.

Personally I define art as when there is a meaning behind every choice of the outcome. When it is not produce out of fun or merely an accidental work. As much as accidents, or rather, experiments are part and parcel of the process of the work; there has to be a reason on why the artist produced the artwork. What is he trying to tell the world, what does he want us to feel when we look at the artwork and finally the success of his artwork does not lies whether we agree to his or her view, but rather is he/she able to express his views through that piece of artwork.

I am still an amateur in art histories but I have an example of such successful artist and he is none other than Vincent Van Gogh. Van Gogh’s later works had reflected the way he viewed the world, the fragmented paintings were not merely a style but it shows how he viewed the world, how he viewed life- as broken. As much as the artist himself was influenced by his environment and the Impressionist and Post Impressionist, there were still something more to just following the Impressionist and Post Impressionist.

When we view an artwork, we are viewing through the eyes of the artist.