Art Reflection

   Paul Gaugin has been quoted for saying "Art is either plagiarism or revolution", which is a quote that I completely agree with. I believe that art is a platform that mostly remains the same and has small innovations that aren't revolutionary, until it is. There have been many artists, such as but not at all limited to Picasso's cubism, Shakespeare's revolutionary writing, and Kurt Cobaine's Grunge movement were completely new and changed the public's views on the quality of art. There are always differing eras in every platform of art, and for the most part artists format their arts within the boundaries of this era until a few remarkable artists revolutionizes art and even kicks off new eras.

   However, Marcel Proust's quote stating that, "A work of art that contains a theory is like an object which the price tags has been left" confuses me a little. Is it stating that an artwork with a purpose in it is trying hard to be sold, or is it saying that an artwork that had intention has more value, value that is not purchasable with money? If the quote is stating my first conclusion then I completely disagree, because I believe an artist's objective is not to just make money, at least for the most part. If food and money was what an artist is concerned with, they wouldn't have chosen to be an artist to begin with. However, if it's just saying the painting is more valuable, then I begin to understand where the artist is coming from. I believe that any art that actually had an idea or an emotion behind it automatically translates into more value, because art is not just about the quality or what the public views art as.