Art and Beauty

I think this painting by the artist Paul Klee is a good example of art that is interesting and aesthetically pleasing.  I like the shapes color scale he uses, and the fact that there’s more to this painting than initially meets the eye.  This painting was originally entitled “Rose Garden (The Golden Fish)”, and if you focus on the rose at the rose in the center, you can see that Klee utilized dimension in the painting – the rose in the middle of the painting becomes the eye of a fish.  Each time you look at it from a different perspective, you see something different.  I believe that this is a good example of art because Klee’s assumed goal was to create a piece of visually appealing art with multiple dimensions.  He had a message to send across as well.  Klee most likely had a message to send across as well.  He was known to challenge the common ideas of abstract art with his ideas and painting techniques.




Something that I consider to be beautiful, but not art, is a sunrise.  The colors produced in the sky and on the water from a sunrise are different almost every time, but are always pretty.  This example is not a piece of art because it occurs naturally.  Because it was not human made, it was never intended to be art and it was never intended to communicate a message or evoke an emotional response.

I was in Washington D.C. about a year ago, and I saw some weird collections of videos in the modern art museum.  Although I couldn’t find examples of these online, I found a sample of videos from the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum of Contemporary art in Berlin.  It is considered art – there was a clear intention to convey a certain message to the audience.  However, I’m not sure what the messages behind these videos are.  Although strange and thought provoking, I wouldn’t consider them beautiful.

 

Berlin - Modern Art from Robert White on Vimeo.