How does Danto's views reflect on abstract and representational art?
Danto's explanation of the "Is" of artistic identification is really that the only way to truly understand art is to know what is behind the art, the concepts behind it. It becomes a sort of graph explaining that the more abstract a piece of art is, the more necessary a conceptual explanation is needed to fully appreciate it. So a representational art piece of a scene in a field will supposedly require less explanation than a painting of a small red dot on a large canvas. However, I feel that even the representational art can have deeper contexts and meanings that could only be discovered through artist explanation. The painting may seem like a simple scene from a field but may in fact be representational off different aspects if the artist's life.
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