Friday, February 28th, 2014
"All art is quite useless."
-Oscar Wilde
What do you think he meant by this? Do you agree with him?
I think that Oscar Wilde is going against the whole idea/issue of categorizing and judging art. Wilde is stating that art is not made for the purpose of being judged upon as one way or another, as in good or bad. Art is simply made for the purpose of entertainment of the intended audience, and for the artists themselves. Wilde is not saying that art itself is useless. Rather, he is saying that all attempts to judge art and enforce a certain interpretation or criteria of judgement is a useless and vain effort. Art is more of a personal experience, not a shared knowledge that should be decided upon by convention or majority vote.
Or at least that's the way that I decide to interpret his meaning.
Or at least that's the way that I decide to interpret his meaning.
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