Realism

a. In my own words, realistic art is art that portrays reality to a ridiculous point of precision and accuracy. It captures every aspect of the subject as well as its surroundings on a piece of paper or canvas or whatever media is being used by using different marking tools.

b. Plato basically defined good art as ideal forms existing non-materialistically while being morally enlightening. Anything less than that would not be acceptable art in the incredibly confusing mind possessed by none other than  the great philosopher Plato.

c. Plato would probably say something along the lines of "I do not approve of this art because it is a disgrace to the ideal forms of objects in a non-materialistic existence." Basically they are an abstracted form and anything but the ideal form is not acceptable to Plato for some odd philosphical reason only know to Plato himself.

d. Aristotle would define good art as art that imitated certain aspects of life. These certain aspects would be anything from circles to leaves to dogs to trees.  Aristotle found realistic art to be very enjoyable to view and well developed.

e. In my personal philosophy "obscene art" is not a contradiction of terms because essentially art is in the eyes of the beholder.  Art is meant to provoke some type of emotion and the thought of something being obscene is an emotion. So art, according to my personal philosophy, cannot be obscence because obscenity is essentially an emotional opinion.

f. In my opinion, vivid sexual images in art is not obscene at all. Violence, poverty and things of the nature I find rather obscence because of the morbid nature or the content. If sexuality is portrayed in art then there is some type of love between the two, or more, subjects portrayed in the art, unless it is a scene of rape or a non-conscentual act.

g. An artist from The Drawing Center that relates to my art piece is Eduardo Stupia. His pieces all have a massive amount of detail and lines going every which way the show a type of movement. It relates to my concept in the sense that life is very hectic and it seems like every decision is crazy and makes your mind turn every which way while somehow coming out as a beautiful blurr. The detail of his peices amaze me and I applaud his ability to do such detailed pieces. 

Beauty vs Repulsion

Beauty

Repulsion

1. I feel like I should get the bad out of the way first so my opinion of bad art is rather simple.

Whenever an art piece doesn't really make me think or provoke a certain emotion, I dislike it. "Shy Glance" by Dawn Marie Jingagian is bad art because the subject just looks out from the canvas at nothing. There is no emotion in her eye or hair.  Good art on the other hand is a piece that makes me wonder why someone would create such a piece. Good art makes me look closer at the piece because I am intrigued.  I guess the oddity of a piece is appealing to me because you have to think about why their mind is working how it is. A great example of good art in my opinion is basically anything MC Escher does. Nearly all of his pieces make me think of how I could create something so interesting while staying sane.

2. Honorific art (according to me) is defined as art that you can respect the time an effort that someone put into by looking closely at every single aspect and detail of the piece.  If you don't respect the art then you aren't honoring it and it is no longer honorific art to you. It is all an opinion.

3. Classificatory definition of art (in my opinion) is when you define something as art when it is displayed in a gallery or an "art authority" (or historian or someone) claims something as art. I disagree with this. I disagree with the idea that, in order for something to be called art, someone has to call it art or it has to be displayed in a gallery.  In my opinion, art is in the eyes of the beholder.

4. I don't think that discussing many pieces of art or aesthetics makes me uncomfortable. I may be slightly offended by the piece but after a few seconds I remember that I didn't make the piece. Someone else is expressing their views and opinions through their art so I have to respect their decision to express them.

5. The artist I found from The Drawing Center that relates to this project of mine the best would be Peter Foucault. He has a couple pieces that appear very messy and gestural which is my slight view of repulsion. Many of his other pieces though have a great attention to detail and have many small lines that for a great picture when you look at it from a slight distance.