Response to Blog : Stephanie Carrone

When it comes to the type of reasoning Plato belives in, more or less it is his own personal opinion, and everyone is entitled to their own opinion. However in my opinion, the subject or art and emotions go hand and hand. The reason why is that art is an expression of human emotions pictorially and physically (furniture,architecture etc.) because without emotions, art is just plain, containing an immense amount of structure. The objects of art would not possess a type of identity, creativity, or even intetention. Furthermore how do you know what that specific artist was thinking at that given moment and even better how were they feeling? Basically you do not know and therefore art without emotion (in my opinion) is not considered art but more of an object to discard. Plato also states that the more human emotions there are within art, the further the piece will drift away from truth. Art does not have to contain an abundance of truth because there is not an exact meaning of the specific matter, which in this case is art. Anyone viewing a specific piece of art will have a certain summarization of the meaning (definition) towards the piece and each person's opinion is not incorrect nor correct, such as in poetry. There is truth to art but only in the eyes of the perceiver.