Response to Xhirley Gonzalez's blog entry on 10/2/2009

In response to your question there actually is nothing wrong with seeing the beauty of art and getting some type of pleasure out of it. Naturally humans cannot control these types of impulses but on the other hand, many do not appreciate the beauty of art therefore neglecting what art truly is, and that is a pictoral or a physical form of pure beauty. However all art does not display beauty, mainly because some artists do not intend for a picture to portray this trait, and many strongly believe that beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder. Probably the single most distiguishing factor about art which makes it great is that tohere are so many different interpretations to an object than just one person. There are no rules in art like there are in a chess game, so what makes someone else's opinion correct in comparision to mine or yours? Nobody because there is no answer key like in mathematics that justifies that a certain answer is correct or even incorrect in certain situations. But getting back to Tolstoy's philosophy of art, he is correct when he states that art shouldnt be rejected because it cannot be rejected as a necessary form of communication. As oral communication is the language of ideas and thoughts, art is the neccessary language that conveys emotions, mainly the artists' state of mind, and what he/she is experiencing or feeling at the given moment. I firmly believe that without art, human life would become dull and lack the neccesssary pleasures in life (since the field is far too inclusive, anything can be art as long as the artist/creator intended a specific form to be art or something in relativity) that we should be experiencing on a daily basis. There are so many life lessons we can learn from art, we can experience the same emotions that the artist was feeling, and our way of thinkng will broaden out instead of being one dimensional. That truly is the reason why art should exist for eternity because if there is nothing that can cause humans to see the beauty and pleasures in life, why should human life be prolonged without this necesssary outlet?