Danto essay
Arthur Danto's claim that the "end of art" has arrived was really an attempt to explain how art history came to an end. While reading Danto's essay, my initial response I perceived was that Danto was claiming art is over. So I thought, why are there still so many art makers or art majors here at Marywood if art were truly over? After further examining the essay and from class lectures, it was more apparent what Danto was claiming. That is, people are still making art but the history of art is over. I agree with Danto's claim and will explain in this essay why the history of art is truly over. Danto does not claim no one is making art anymore or that no good quality art can be created. Rather, that the history of art is finished or over. In other words, art had its story in history and history is therefore no longer being made in art. Today, art makers are simply mirroring the past. Works of art that were produced up until the 1950's and early sixties were all part of the history of art that is now over. Since then, art makers continued to produce works of art but no one is able to say whether it is art or not. Hence, anything could be a work of art today. The evolution of art ended decades ago. For examp
Danto believes that for something to be a work of art it should be about something and that is should represent its meaning. Danto claims the historical importance of art lies in the fact that it makes philosophy of art possible and important. Many of us are taught from an early age that art is important and significant in some way. This style was also the fashion trend thirty years ago. Since the introduction of rock and roll music in the 1950's and early sixties, has any new music really advanced or continued to shock anyone? With the exception of "Rap music" introduced in the seventies, one may agree that no new music has really shocked an audience the way rock & roll did. The same concept of having a shocking effect may be assumed about fashion. The commotion and struggles have ended and at the present the task of defining "What art is" is left up to the philosophy of art scholar. For example, hip-huggers or low-rise pant may be the current fashion trend today. There was a time when art mattered and somewhere art makers struggled to define what art is. In actuality, the new fashion trend is just old fashion mixing it up with a way that is new again. Here, is where one may begin to examine what the art maker is trying to symbolize or better yet, what art is. The point here is that before rock & roll, music did matter. In 1971 Don McLean wrote a song called "American Pie" to describe how the 50's music was now over and finished. Since then, music produced has not expressed this shocking effect.
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