Beauty in Art

"Without Sin"- Jules Olitski

     Beauty is still somewhat important in art today because, for example, when people go to art museums they expect to see art that they enjoy looking at because it is aesthetically pleasing to their eyes from their perspective. Now not every art piece might be considered art to them but as they say, "beauty is in the eye of the beholder." With that said though, I believe that every art has a little beauty in it, but you just have to see it from the perspective that the artist wants you to see it from. For instance, out of the artists in episode three of "This is Modern Art," I thought that there was some beauty in Jules Olitski's paintings, not because of the colors he used even though they aided in its effect, but with the texture. I admired the texture the most because in his nonrepresentational art, it seemed like he wanted his audience to notice the texture rather than what people usually looked for in art. So that is what he made stick out the most in his paintings by exaggerating it from the flat surface of the canvas, similar to a caricature where they choose specific details of something and amplify them. The uniqueness of it can be seen as beautiful in my mind, and if that wasn't there I'd probably just overlook it because of its similarity to previous paintings that I have seen. Therefore, beauty can be a very general term and some might call it something else, but nevertheless, it is just their own definition of what they find beautiful, meaning that beauty does still play a key role in art today.