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Aesthetics: What Makes Something an Art?

What makes something beautiful? What makes an art


good? These can also improvise the topic, because art at its
end, must be beautiful and good. First and foremost, the word
art can be used as a compliment, whether it be in images,
athletes, rhythmic movements and many more. Let’s discuss art
in point of views that are subjective and objective.
The prior will always lead us to the conclusion that art is
always beautiful. As it was shown in the video, it’s just like
comparing the infamous Monalisa to some random stick figure
drawing,” the beauty is in the eye of the beholder” from which
the possessor may tell that they are just both the same, but
Leonardo’s masterpiece is more to have a value. Yet we cannot
limit art to such ideas because of its versatility, this is where we
discuss art in an objective point of view.
The German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, said that
an art to be good, must possess answers to the questions:
What was the goal? Did they achieve it? And was it worth
doing? The Seminary formation for example, is it an art? It
depends if it qualifies in the standards I presented, Goethe says.
The main goal of Seminary formation is to mold young boys to
become Priests. This Grace that they have received are the
reason why they act in Persona Christi, and this is and will
always be worth the doing. These are reasons why things are to
be an art, their beauty and goodness lies with-in. This just
leaves me the question, is this reflection paper an art?

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