Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Photography and portraiture - It is said that art is to express "truth, goodness and beauty", so why do some works of art look ugly?

It is said that art is to express "truth, goodness and beauty", so why do some works of art look ugly?

Some works of art look ugly, but their artistic techniques or artistic forms are different from the common ones. It doesn't mean that they express the ugly side, nor does it mean that sometimes we need ugliness to set off beauty, and we need to expose ugliness to make people realize their mistakes more deeply.

For example, people who often like to go to art exhibitions may find some works that are not beautiful on the surface, such as some works of art made of garbage or landscapes made of plastic bags. In fact, this is an irony for human beings to destroy the environment and cause great damage to the original ecology. Maybe one day we can only reproduce the scenery with plastic works.

Although some of these works of art are not very beautiful, they are actually expressing truth, goodness and beauty, calling on everyone to care for the environment and cherish natural resources.

I think there are thousands of forms of art, sometimes we may not understand it, but we don't have to deny it. Because you have your opinion, others have other people's views, and everyone's views cannot be completely unified. We can only seek common ground while reserving differences and show respect and understanding for views different from our own.

The same is true of art forms. Some people may think it's ugly, others think it's cute. This is also a very normal situation, and this is the pleasure of seeing works of art. If there are 65,438+0,000 readers, there will be 65,438+0,000 Hamlets. If everyone has the same point of view, then the argument is not fun at all, and art can't be called art. The works of the great writer Shakespeare are still like this, so how can ordinary art avoid this?