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Do you like any type of art, or is it only painting that leaves you unmoved?

If you appreciate the technicality of it that's still appreciation. I'm like that with photorealism, awed at the skill of it, but otherwise unconvinced by it as a form of painting.



Pretty much couldn't really care any less about most art. It's just some paint on a canvas or a statue or whatever.

Some people say they are emotionally moved or mesmerised by the beauty etc. Sure I can appreciate it is a skill etc etc, but I don't understand the emotional reaction people say they have - I just see a "thing" like I see advertising boards on the street as a "thing". I wonder sometimes if people just say this stuff because they think they are supposed to.


> Pretty much couldn't really care any less about most art.

Art also includes literature, music, movies, theater... Not sure if you also meant those.


Yup.


>I wonder sometimes if people just say this stuff because they think they are supposed to.

No, other people are actually capable of appreciating art as an abstraction and of having an emotional reaction to the concepts that art conveys.




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