| "The excellency of every art is its intensity, | | | | in his little treatise, Art and the Bible: "A work of |
| capable of making all disagreeable evaporate."- | | | | art has value in itself." He said "Art is not |
| John Keats | | | | something we merely analyze or value for its |
| A true art is one which is centered on a timeline | | | | intellectual content. It is something to be enjoyed." |
| of events of the world. New art styles have | | | | But what about the works of art that are without |
| appeared and vanished, with the beginning of the | | | | beauty? Without the precious stone of beauty a |
| industrial revolution and have meanwhile reflected | | | | piece of art whatever modern may be it is will |
| the gradual changes that have taken place in art | | | | become a pillar of caricature, without any innate |
| in our society. The 19th century painters | | | | value. We all know the famous poet Keats |
| considered art to be a representation of images | | | | remark on art: "A thing of beauty is a joy |
| that reflects moral values, Christian sentiments, | | | | forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass |
| righteous conducts, virtuous behaviors and noble | | | | into nothingness." |
| sacrifices. The history of modern art starts with | | | | In the 19th century, art was discussed by critics |
| impressionism in Paris - a movement against the | | | | and historians largely in formal terms which |
| rigid painting done inside academy. The usage of | | | | effectively removed the question of meaning and |
| light and strong colors was paramount for the | | | | purpose from consideration. But modern art was |
| impressionist art movement. Different | | | | to be discussed in terms of one great thread that |
| movements fauvism, expressionism, cubism, | | | | is style - color, line, shape, space, composition -- |
| surrealism and many other paved the pathway of | | | | conveniently ignoring or playing down whatever |
| the artist and the modern artist belief in the | | | | social, political, or progressive statements the |
| freedom of expression. They brush their thoughts | | | | artist had hoped to make in his or her work. |
| and ideas into strokes of their art. | | | | Eventually it emerged that modern art is practiced |
| With the progress of the century this artistic | | | | within a closed formalist sphere separated from |
| freedom has become fundamental to progressive | | | | and not to be contaminated by the real world. |
| modernism. The artists seek freedom not just | | | | Modern art should act like an effective instrument |
| only from the rules of academic art, but from the | | | | of social betterment, understandable by common |
| demands of the public. And finally they have | | | | man. Art should have its own intrinsic value |
| claimed that art should be produced not for the | | | | regardless of everything. But it is not mere an |
| public's sake, but for art's sake. Art for art's sake | | | | articulation of images, rather the "true" art behind |
| is a release from the age old tyranny, rules and | | | | the image that was deemed important. We all |
| purpose; it is an excercise of freedom. 'Art for | | | | know: "Beauty is truth, truth beauty,- that is all ye |
| art's sake'- A phrase coined by Francis Schaeffer | | | | know on earth, and all ye need to know. |