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Class Discussion: Reality in Art
Today in class we discussed the concept of reality in art. “Reality” differs from person to person. With art, the initial act of creating art is imitating a reality – creating an “artifact”. No matter how true to detail it may be it is still in effect creating a new object – which is an imitation of reality. Initially this was hard for me to grasp, because in my mind if you show me a picture of an apple you painted then I know in “your reality” you were looking at an apple. I had to think of it in terms of abstract art – where perhaps one would paint an abstract apple, which to me looked like an light bulb. There is always the possibility that from person to person art can be viewed differently, through each individuals own reality. Never could the second person viewing the artifact truly be able to interpret what the original reality was.