Miss Caphat
I want it that way
It's just that one the whole it's not appreciated/ consumed anywhere near as much as modern music or film or writing. This is a pretty well-documented fact, although all of the arts disciplines have suffered in terms of not being taught as much in schools and therefore not respected/ understood/ appreciated. I feel like art is very tricky because although people like it, we aren't really given a lot of opportunities to understand it and think about it.
A friend of mine (she's an artist & so am I) were talking about two recent shows we put on...hers was of her own work and mine was of other people's and she went under cover to see what people said and mostly it was "I don't get it" and my experience of putting on lots of shows for the general public is that most people, for the most part don't have a sense of how to look at art really, or know how to talk about it and discern different features.
They know when they do like something, but often not why. I feel like with music, film, and literature, we're much more trained to analyze it and look at it critically and understand why it's good/ why we like it, etc, and much more comfortable doing so.
I am aware that things I say on this topic can come across as elitist/ whatever but I assure you, I don't mean it that way. Just that we need more appreciation, and less griping.
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