what is art report

Eric Frazier
Visual literacy
What is art assignment

What is art? Art is what someone creates. It is a picture, a song, a movie, anything that is pleasing to the eye. It is also a sculpture. There are many types of art. You have artists who draw pictures, composers that make music, recording artist who write and make music and movie directors who make movies. Djing music is also an art, it takes a lot of skill to be able to mix and blend songs. Directing and making movies is also an art. Anyone can take a video of something and show it, but it takes passion and true feeling to make the movie good and worth watching. Yes, art is universal. It is universal because it comes in many ways. There are many types of pictures a person can draw like portraits, scenery and designs of stadiums. Also there are many types of movies a person can direct such as horrors, comedies, dramas etc. There are also many types of music a person can make such as rock, country, rap, r&b, orchestra and symphony. There are also many different sculptures, building and statues that people can erect. What isn’t art? That’s hard to say, but I think that if something doesn’t mean anything, is pleasing to the eye or is not in good taste, is not art. There could be a movie made but if it doesn’t make sense or doesn’t mean anything, then it’s not art. An artist can write and sing or rap a song but if the song doesn’t make sense or it its offbeat, no one would want to listen to it. Someone could draw a picture of something but if it doesn’t have any meaning or if it’s offensive, then it’s not art. Defending my view of art is a very touchy subject for me. A lot of people don’t believe that hip hop and rap is music and art. They seem to think that that type of music is ignorant and ghetto and anyone that listens to that is ignorant and ghetto. They think that way because they don’t understand the music, what the artist is saying in their song and they don’t like the cursing. I have to defend it because it is not ghetto or ignorant. I try to show people that it’s all about expression and that these artists are just expressing themselves and telling a story about their lives. Djing has made me better understand the hip hop culture and how much talent it takes to make a song and count beats. There is more to playing, making, mixing and singing songs than just going yo yo yo. It is an art form because a person has to have a lot of talent to take beats, verses and other types of equipment and put them together to make it sound good; otherwise, it would just be noise. All in all, those are my views of what is art, if art is universal, what is not art and how I would defend my views on what is art when someone says that it is not art. I feel that some people need to look into the hip hop culture before they pass judgment about someone’s way to express themselves.