What is the difference between good and bad art?

In order to answer this, we must think about what art is itself. Art is a form of self expression and communicating ideas, various concepts, and creativity through a wide range of topics: writing, art in general (drawings, sculptures, paintings, etc), fashion, theatre production, etc. This is the broadest range of art specifically. In order to fully analyze the difference between good art and bad art, I like to take it from this broad perspective due to the mere fact that art is in almost everything we experience, view, and see. Art is a worldwide phenomenon, an extremely vital component to almost everything we do. To elaborate on how art is a part of our lives, I will discuss how exactly. For example, music is like poetry and very lyrical. Why is this art? It’s a creative music piece done by someone originally. It inspires, it creates feeling and emotion. Writing songs is self expression and putting one’s perception of thing or feelings on paper, and then further produced for the world to become aware of. In terms of art itself (paintings, drawings, designs, etc), we can visualize an artist’s point of view or how they express themselves creatively. My point to this is that art completes almost everything we do in life. As humans, we need to portray our creative side to everything. Art can be in the simplest forms such as creating a design for something, a simple logo or name, or even a business idea. Now that I’ve established how art is relevant to our everyday lives, the difference between good art and bad art will be analyzed.

There is no particular difference between good and bad art. Everyone has different opinions and perceptions on everything. Of course, some of us may think similar responses or ideas, but everyone sees things in their own way. For example, let’s say four people are at the scene of the crime and they witness the exact same event. Yes, they would see the exact same things. Would their perception of it be the same? Not necessarily. They would each report it differently on the same situation. This occurs with art in the same manner. We each think differently. We consider what is good and bad differently. What may be an exciting piece of art may be dull and depressive to someone else. If an artist is trying to communicate with a person a certain idea, but we end up seeing different aspects of it. Both good and bad art are almost the same in terms of perception. Both good art and bad art invokes that emotional response, a comment, a feeling of anger or relating to it. This response shows that it has touched you in some way, whether good or bad. Even though somebody might dislike a piece, another person might enjoy it. We cannot eliminate what we think is bad art. One’s man’s art can be another’s man treasure. We can choose to look at the two sides of things and be satisfied with it. Overall, everyone’s ideas are different, as well as perceptions. We cannot clearly define the main difference between good art and bad art due to the mere fact that we all see things differently.