Introduction To Poetry By Billy Collins

Is all art considered great? Why do we care about art at all? Well, well, well, have I got the synthesized answer for you. To answer an incredibly subjective question like the former, we have to collect many different interpretations of art’s so-called “greatness”. Art is all about subjective thinking and interpretation, especially when executed by a “professional”: somebody who has created something that has required premeditation, passion, and influence with the expectation of reaching an audience that both enjoys and critiques the creation. But that’s just my own, personal definition of an artist in general. However, “great” art doesn’t actually depend on the artist’s efforts, but rather it depends primarily on the reception of the audience.

And this goes without saying that art comes in many different shapes and sizes; not all art is simply an image. Take this poem by Billy Collins, “Introduction to Poetry”, in which the author discusses the ways in which certain types of people approach art. The author views himself as a sympathetic artist willing to take the time to slowly stumble upon a meaning of a poem, while others who read poems lack patience and are willing to do anything to render a poem meaningful. This approach to interpreting poetry attempts to install some insight into its readers since the language used to describe the thoughtful and more relaxed poet’s perspective on defining a poem’s meaning uses more abstract words and a more tender tone of voice while a more abrasive and violent diction is used to describe the thoughtless and more impatient possible “average” reader who wishes to get to the point immediately. It’s almost as if art doesn't have any true definition but instead only interpretation, which can relate back to the question “Is all art considered great?/Who decides if art is great?”. We can infer that “great art” is simply a matter of opinion and a combination of advertisement and effort. But is there any list of traits defined by a writer from an art website that can help us truly understand what allows art to be

To society, paintings like the Mona Lisa and Starry Night, are without a doubt “great”, among all other works of respected and revered artists that society has deemed significant to its culture. But to be quite fair, what really matters is what the individual considers great. Sure, we may draw influences from other pieces of art and come to a somewhat biased conclusion as to which oiled up canvas or which carved up stone and welded metal sculptures surpass others in “greatness”, but isn’t that what the whole concept of art is all about? Taking all incredibly popular art pieces into consideration, these “great” pieces are nothing but creations fed to us in droves of mass advertisement, brandishing the supposed significance of certain works from certain time periods reflecting our evolution in thought and creativity. All which that is displayed is “great” enough for somebody to have decided to share their creation with the world and be observed and subsequently judged. Yes, these ideas presented to us from the minds of those who seek to express their thoughts through a medium do hold merit in terms of advancing culture, and yes, art has always been the center of attention when it comes to studying cultures, but aren’t all creative outputs humanity produces just as great as the ones people study and declare