Who decides what art means? – Hayley Levitt

37 thoughts on “Who decides what art means? – Hayley Levitt”

1. But who's to judge the right from wrong
   When our guard is down I think we'll both agree
   That violence breeds violence
   But in the end it has to be this way

2. In the mid-20th century,philosopher. W.K. Wimsatt and Monroe C. Beardsley published The Intentional Fallacy. In it, they counter the contemporary assumption that the original creator's intention for a work was equal to the meaning and merit of the work. This raised serious questions in the critical realm about intention

3. It was a hostage image with dead desperate eyes.

   Produce a baby or shut up.

   The existence of a Human being or not, is not up to interpretation. It is a science! Evidenced based. There is either a person or not. No wonder why your empires are collapsing. You have given up on reality and thinking!

   I pity you.

4. I love the narrator's voice, gives such 'cool teacher who has your back' vibes

5. The Chef throwing the dessert at the face of the person caught me so off guard I laughed for like 10 minutes 🤣🤣🤣

6. the artist's plan and motivation for the work affect the meaning

7. 2:14, i see what you did there.

8. Intent? I think I saw onw of yours! Could it be you see Donald Trump as a pollutant? Kind of annoying to all us artistic types who admire him.

9. @1:20 every potterhead about the HARRY POTTER

10. There were no dinosaurs in the stone age

11. I'd say both are true. The piece of art is a message the artist is trying to communicate, so clearly their intention is important. However if it is unclear what they are trying to say then they are doing a bad job of communicating their message. A good chef makes a dessert that matches his intentions, likewise a good artist makes his piece of art to match his intentions. If audiences cannot agree on some basic understanding of the painting then the artist has done a bad job of communicating his idea.
    Now there ks the complication of ambiguity, in the case where the artist specifically wants his piece to be hard to interpret. In this case the artist wants to spark the debate itself and cause conversation by making his intentions ambiguous, yet his intentions are still there and the conversation is generated by the audience trying to figure out what his intentions were.

12. I want that “Nietzsche is dead” shirt

13. I love art history! Thanks TED keep them coming

14. J D Salinger unavailable to answer!

15. i dont even understand ;-;

16. Me hearing a new song I like 😍😍😍
    Me watching the music video 😕😕😕
    I feel when a musicians visual interpretation doesn’t mesh with mine, it messes with the entire feel for the song, for me, wise now I’m visualizing this person singing and acting, rather than it being the way I interrupted a song I love.. why I watch a very tiny amount of music videos. They usually make no sense to me. And my visual is more entertaining.

17. I definitely think that the artists crafts for the audience. However, I would also say that art can be transformational for the viewer thereby bringing the audience which is slightly out of alignment with the language the artist is speaking into alignment with the artist's message. This I think is more valuable as it is stretching an individual's mind to intake an alternative viewpoint. Preaching to the choir is okay but transformation is more profound.

18. and how can we distinguish between a good interpretation & a bad interpretation of art?

19. Your animations and music makes me feel like I wanna live in a world drawn and told by TED-Ed

20. https://youtu.be/pQmr7Yp-WL4

21. Death of the author

22. Puddiiiiiing please 🥺

23. Dose having over 25 years of artistic experience equate to the cost of my artwork And allow me to charge egregious amounts of money😭

24. The artists plans most definitely effect its meaning, because that's the energy the artist is sending out into the world. That of course doesn't mean the work isn't open to a different interpretation by the viewer.

25. Anyone else watching this video because of school?

26. Metaphor transcends the words in which it is spoken, written or drawn. It means different to people in the way they are. Like any object in the world that has truths hidden in dimensions beyond our faculties. Truth is infinite. It is not attainable by any one individual. Like a mosaic. Meanings beyond the author. Why deprive yourself of the beauty and joy of discovering what it all means to you?

27. In support of their theory, Beardsley and Wimsatt made the argument that if the authors intentions were all that mattered then art evaluation would be meaningless. Because either the work shows what the author was trying to do, and was therefore a sucess and in no need of further analysis, or it didnt, and was therefore a failure. They also agreed that art always has a creator, but believed that as soon as a piece was published or displayed, it immediately became a possesion of the public.

28. ARGH! I was SO excited to share this with my middle school art students- and then the last example with the cigarette ruins it 🙁 just can't share that with 12-year-olds.

29. too relfexive, thanks for this ideas, so inspirative and conmotional. THANKS TED. SIUUU

30. i'm from Brasil.

31. Yes! Art is in the eye of the beholder.

32. I love this! Thanks

33. So here's my idea/opinion/philosophy
    Better View of this

    Lets take the pudding example
    
    An artist creates/makes a new art (in this case pudding)
    
    That is a new thing in the world of food
    
    Here Perspective could be seen as People trying to remake the pudding in their mind/head & everyone is/is trying making their own opinion,
    
    There could be incidence where a person's opinion is better(more optimistic,has a better message)
    
    So the opinion of the artist only matters till the recipe after that its solely upto the person to make his/her own pudding

34. Somebody quote Todd Chavez!

35. 0:17 this reaction catches my eye..
    Animation ✨✨

36. Art serves purpose. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Both the artist intention and interpretation of the viewer hold significance. The meaningfulness of either the interpretation or intention depends on the artwork. The interpretation of an advertisement or a logo is more important then the intention. The intention of an abstract art work can be more important then the interpretation. Like everything else in the study of art both of these philosophies are correct while false at the same time. Art is Dialetheism.

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