Art, artists, being an audience and experiencing it

I’d rather be an audience to a work of art than be an artist. It’s intriguing as everyone wants to be an artist in today’s world. I personally feel that being an audience to a work of art is also part of the whole experience of art

I mean what’s it’s (art) purpose if there’s no one to actually feel or experience it

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Lostpoet · M

I wish more people were able to experience it. I can still get lost for hours in a beautiful painting and to the modern age that painting isn't anymore valuable than a fifty dollar smart phone.

ninalanyon · 61-69, T

@Lostpoet What's stopping people appreciating art? There's plenty of it about.

Lostpoet · M

@ninalanyon In America I think family and culture is the reason kids don't grow up appreciating art. In America entertainment is more sports or sex driven and it comes from music and television. Nobody really goes to museums anymore. I go to museums and appreciate art still, so I don't know.

ninalanyon · 61-69, T

@Lostpoet Now I stop to think about it I think perhaps there simply isn't as much of it in the US. I remember that when I was in the US (lots of business trips to Raleigh, NC over a 25 year period) I noticed how little public art there was. In most of Europe you don't have to go far before you see a statue, a wall painting, or just architecture that is more than merely functional.

Lostpoet · M

@ninalanyon I think maybe we see it as more of an Aristocratic thing something only the privilege are into.