After the painful progress test, we were expecting to go for a pleasant trip to Singapore Arts Museum and Singapore National Museum. Unfortunately, I totally had no idea about the Arts Museum. The exhibition was diverse and substantial, and the atmosphere there was quite satisfying. However, I felt fear and lacking of knowledge when appreciating them. Strictly, I was not appreciating them—I just watched them. I doubt that if Arts suits everyone to appreciate.
According to Wikipedia, the Arts are “a vast subdivision of culture, composed of many creative endeavors and disciplines.” So here are the problems. First, Arts involve specific cultural background and the artist’s personal experience. This makes Arts difficult to appreciate if we lack of those knowledge. Enhancing that knowledge may cope with this problem, but it takes long time, and seems boring at the same time. In addition, the viewpoints towards Arts vary individually, which cause about argument about them. Above all, Arts sometimes is treated being based on affluence life, so the importance of developing economy is stressed more than Arts, or mental life.
Arts is tough to understand for me, but I will try to make it if must.
I believe that Arts is colorful and powerful in every culture, and the culture is transmitted by Arts. The display in Arts Museum is indeed confusing, but at least we learn something right?
ReplyDeletethe due time for this trip was short, so we don't have enough time to appreciate the art works. if we have more free time , it will be interesting to wonder around in the museum. there is no need to find out what is right and what is wrong, because of course people's opinion defers on art works.
ReplyDeleteArt may have many forms...Some of them we cannot understand right now. However, after we have gaim enough living experience, we may understand them
ReplyDeleteDifferent people have different taste, and what we can do is to say we can not understand them. Besides, since the time is too short, maybe we miss some background of the works ,and therefore it seems to hard for us to learn about them.
ReplyDeleteThe first thing that you must remember is that there is no right or wrong way of appreciating or interpreting art. You make sense of it based on your own life experience and at the same time try to understand how other people's way of life is similar to or different from your own way of life.
ReplyDeleteI think arts belongs to everyone, but it does not mean a good works of art should be understood by everyone. If a painting can be understood by everyone, it will be too superficial.
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