When Is It Art? And When Is It Fine Art?
When Is It Art? And When Is It Fine Art?
I had a discussion recently via family email (we have a large list) about “fine art” One father wanted their son to be focused on more “male oriented” topics than the arts. I contributed some opinion about the impact of fine art on society and learning.
Recently, perusing some photographs from 2001 (taken with an Olympus 1.3 MP camera!) I realized that I had samples of a wide divergence in art forms taken in one city, Berlin, that impacted society in very different ways at times centuries apart.
The first picture, taken at the berlin wall was part of the social eruption in Berlin in the late 1980s that led to the collapse of the iron curtain and the entire Soviet Union.
The second shows art from the period from around 1100 to 1600 in a church in Berlin. Though you can’t see it, there is an attendance roster posted on a wall with numbers in the 80s and 90s. The art has little impact today, but such art was instrumental in forming the societies of renaissance Europe.
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