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Hall 4 Best Car Analysis

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Hall 4 best vehicle is, I think, an unwarranted claim. He may indeed feel this way, but I can't be sure. Perhaps he finds art not to be objectively the best, but the best for him. In that case, his choice would be the result of personal preference or ability and not some independent standard. This really doesn't leave much room for explanation, though, so for the sake of an interesting discussion let's assume that Bell thinks that contemplation of art is the best vehicle, objectively. So why would he think that? Well, he mentions that one only needs to bring two things with them when engaging an art piece: a sense of form and color, and a knowledge of three dimensional space. Only two things... sounds pretty simple. You definitely need more than that to truly engage …show more content…

He just kind of throws that "sense of form and color" out there without really explaining what the hell it means. How does one acquire this? Can you learn it from a book or a teacher? Is it even something one can learn at all? I don't think Bell would say so. He seems to treat such an ability as being fairly rare. He even goes so far as to call aesthetic appreciation a "great gift”.Error: Reference source not found Well, if it's a gift then it's probably not something you can learn, is it? So art isn't really such an accessible path to transcendence anymore. In fact, Bell's theory begins to seem pretty damn elitist. While he claims that he doesn't disrespect the layman for focusing on the content of a piece and getting only human emotion from it, there definitely seems to be a note of pity in is writing when he mentions it. The arrogant bastard. But wait... this isn't really getting us anywhere. We can't even say that Bell finds aesthetic appreciation to be the objectively best path. We assumed it just to see where it lead, but it only lead to pissing me off. And getting pissed off at someone because of a belief that I'm assuming they have is just silly. Ok, so let's back

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