ART AND TALENT

Art and Talent



Art and Talent

Introduction

A complete grasp of artistry in its purest form is generally not something you can pick up or learn. Sure, it is always possible to go to art school and learn how to draw or play an instrument. But if you are not born with artistic talent, you will never reach the same potential those born with artistic talent are capable of reaching. Depending on how a person perceives talent, I may have an iota of bias when I say that true talent is something you have from the start, needless to say that if you have to learn how to do something, it pretty much defeats the purpose of saying you have talent. Artistic talent is quite rare to find nowadays with the introduction of computer technology and that is a proof in itself depicting artistic talent as something that is in your blood to begin with. Generally, very few people hold natural artistic skill in all aspects: music, visual arts, and literary. It's common that a person is probably only born with one or at most, two aspects, and as such, if you aren't born with the other aspect, you can not learn it. Artistic talent is among the skills that you must inherit from your parents, not from observing your friends or attending art school(Shiner 2001 pp.56).

 

Art

The definition of art is controversial in contemporary philosophy. Whether art can be defined has also been a matter of controversy. The philosophical usefulness of a definition of art has also been debated. Contemporary definitions are of two main sorts. One distinctively modern, conventionalist, sort of definition focuses on art's institutional features, emphasizing the way art changes over time, modern works that appear to break radically with all traditional art, and the relational properties of artworks that depend on works' relations to art history, art genres, etc(Tilghman 2004 pp.67). The less conventionalist sort of contemporary definition makes use of a broader, more traditional concept of aesthetic properties that includes more than art-relational ones, and focuses on art's pan-cultural and trans-historical characteristics. Definitions of art attempt to make sense of two different sorts of facts: art has important historically contingent cultural features, and it also, arguably, has trans-historical, trans-cultural characteristics that point in the direction of a relatively stable aesthetic core(Stecker 2005 pp.12). Theorists who regard art as an invention of eighteenth-century Europe will, of course, regard this way of putting the matter as tendentious, on the grounds that entities produced outside that culturally distinctive institution do not fall under the extension of “art” and hence are irrelevant to the art-defining project. (Shiner 2001 pp.56) Whether the concept of art is precise enough to justify this much confidence about what falls under its extension claim is unclear.) Conventionalist definitions take art's cultural features to be explanatorily fundamental, and attempt to capture the phenomena —revolutionary modern art, the traditional close connection of art with the aesthetic, the possibility of autonomous art traditions, ...