What Does Art Mean To You?

Jack Groves
1 min readApr 28, 2022

Art is a conversation for me. A means to express feeling in a multitude of ways — thought-provoking dialogue between an artist and an individual, often without dialogue, packed with discussion. Art simultaneously educates and blankly conducts meaning, which one chooses to engage. It lives to serve a purpose, but only the individual can access it through their pleasant duty of engagement. Art seeks the beholder to engage and deliver a sense of individuality and nuance of perception — perhaps an approach that is unique to everyone; art is multifaceted.

Layers and layers create depth and sole objectivity for an individual. Art can measure your imagination and challenge your perception. I often find several personable depictions and meaning for pieces, but there are no straight “answers” — in actuality, art is arbitrary. That is beautiful.

Art’s subjectivity creates personable recognition of your essence. Its distinction is unparalleled and can only narrate a response which you have within. Your history, environment, and relationship to art curate feeling and preempts unruly cognitive emotion and thought. Art is a relationship, and art is a conversation for me.

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