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             Art is like an onoin, it has layers upon layers creating a complex structure that when opened will make the strongest of person cry. To analyze art's structure is to box creativity, understand mystery, and harness society. Never the less art must be dissected to better understand its process and further its advancment. Art is a world adrift, in which rootless men fumble to express the very essence of life in a new meaningful way. This may be what motivates artist, the need to express life, mystery, awe, pain, sentiment to themselves and others in a meaningful manner. This paper asks the question, "What makes great art?" Has art lost its originality and can an artist express anything new? The threads that create the tapestry of the art structure includes society and the art viewing audience. The relationship between society and the artist encorporates a contradiction of division and union. I desire to explain that artist's can be original but they must be weary as well as embracing of society. Great art consist of being original, using society and culture positively, and the individual viewing the art piece.
             Human nature wages a battle between individuality and originality on one hand, and community and "fitting in" on the other. Most often being different or creating something new lands one in trouble. Creating, pursuing originality, is often a destructive process. Anyone chasing their bold dream, is inherently making obsolete what came before. Art is no differnt. New methods in art create tension with ideas of becoming obsolete. Examples of this can be found with new methods of perspective, pointalism, and abstract art. A modern example is technology and the age of computers. To be unoriginal is to feel inferior.
             First let me discuss originality itself. The debate of whether original thoughts still exist has gone on for centuries. In The Thought Gang, the British author Tibor Fisher wrote in with tongue-in-ch...

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