There has been a large push from the "foodies" into the mainstream culture. While the celebrity chefs became actual celebrities who became famous for their work. While the foods are clearly works that require dedication, skill, direction, and effort, can they be really considered as art pieces? After all, they only last few hours at maximum. In short, I believe so, foods have multiple layers of flavors that often has very delicate design in its flavors.

Are art works getting better over time?

Charlie Chaplin created master pieces during 1920's when the movies were just few decades old. These movies have lasting impact on the American culture ever since it came out and influenced numerous artists. On the other hand, we have Michael Bay who .... makes a lot of money. In a perspective, Michael Bay should have distinctive advantage over Chaplin because he has years of cinematographic development to learn from. Yet, his works' not as good as Chaplin's, especially considering how Chaplin had to innovate everything that is around. It is unfortunate to say this, but art is not something that always progresses.

Minimalism and information.

     This is a logo of American Architects Center designed by Pentagram. I always adored minimalistic art because they are often more informational than many other forms of art. This is because the minimalistic art focuses and highlights one specific feature of the information, and it is especially effective because we only intake few information at a time. Hence, by making information into bite-size materials, the artists can tell stories and messages more effectively.

Different tools

      The drawing above is made by David Jon Kassa, a contemporary hyper-realism artist. Hyper-realism is a genre of art dedicated to making a realistic art as possible, and the drawing above shows the capability of hyper-realism today. I thought it was interesting and notable that his drawing is much more realistic than the masters of art in the past like Leonardo da vinci. I am certain that Kassa is also respected and skillful artist, but da vinci is clearly more popular and considered skillful. Of course, this is because Kassa is using the techniques and methods that have been developed and practiced by the previous artists and hence in advantage. Nonetheless, I thought it was very interesting that younger and less well known artist can be more skillful in terms of realistic depiction. Even though we don't think like this often, the difference is similar to professional driver in 1920's racing against me in 2012 in our own cars; while I am probably not the more adept driver by any means, I am pretty certain that my car will be able to overwhelm my opponents'.

     When many people say "advanced technology can be an art", they are referring to the physical beauty of the object that is created by an advanced technology. This is essentially incorrect, as they are referring to an object's beauty to be an art, not the object's technology. I believe that advanced technology can be considered beautiful and artistic without creating an object. Many subjects of hard science are about figuring out the world and universe that we live in. Hence, if we assume that the universe is artistic, and science is about explaining the universe, science it self has a potential to be artistic.

Opera and technology

It is often easy to think that opera is very exclusive. This is because the shows often have limited seats and the price of admission is pretty high. However, this is not too accurate thanks to new broadcasting technologies that allows live stream of a show from stage to movie theaters. In fact, according to the link below, 3 million individuals watched a play via this service.

http://imgartists.com/news/watch_fleming_bychkov_and_tatum_in_otello_for_met_live_in_hd_saturday_27th/

Arts ARE weird....

Let's be frank, modern abstract arts are weird and obscure. In fact, I don't even understand how to start appreciating them. Yet, I hear numbers of stories where such abstract and odd arts are praised and appreciated globally. So, does this bother me, a person who does not understand the art? Not really, I understand that such art pieces can be appreciated by many people for some reasons, but I do have taste and ability to appreciate other forms of art in a different way. In conclusion, I don't think anyone should feel particularly bad about it.