A picture of duck when you look left,

a picture of rabbit when you look right.

 

Top 10 Questions on our Assumptions about Art

10. Why do we assume that art is always something intended for public display?

9. Why do we assume that art should be collectible?

8. Why do we assume that art should be intelligent or explainable or intended to

impress?

 
7. Why should we assume that art has any particular consistent and persistent
qualities at all?

6. Why do we assume that art should be interpreted without context?

5. Why do we assume that serious art has more significance or greater value than a
doodle which only you seem to appreciate?

4. Why do we assume that art is something that can be defined?

3. Why do we assume that popularity is the ultimate indicator of good art when it is
in conflict with your own taste in art?

2. Why do we assume that art should be art?

1. Why do we assume that this list of questions about some basic assumptions of

art has to have a coherent message and a sound ending?
 

“And Yet Another Reason Why We Shouldn’t Assume,” Stacey Neil (2014)

Activity
Write your ideas or interpretations based on the Assumptions about Art statement given. Explain your
answer for statements/questions that you feel is answerable only by yes or no.

1 Can art be universal or is it always grounded in its time and place?

2 Is art timeless or transient?

Art is not nature, nature is not art.

Art is not just a recording of human experience, but it is an involvement of human experience.

What does art express. Why does art express? How does art express?

Does art reflect culture? How does art reflect culture?

Art is't creativity and creativity is not art.

Is art a product of imagination or experience?

Are some works of art better than other?