/lit/ - Literature

Art is objective, but first, you have to define art objectively. Such a task is beyond most people. Once you establish a proper definition of art, you can include the functionality of its creation, and that acts as the standard for analyzing and evaluating art.

>>13965493
Beauty becomes a metric with the union between the objective definition of art and the standard of its creation. Arguing that beauty isn't objective, that it's 'in the eye of the beholder' is to negate both the meaning of art and its creation.

>>13965457
They don't. They think it merely means 'personal' rather than epistemological disassociation from reality. This misunderstanding is most blatant when people define subjectivity as merely 'bias,' and that objectivity is merely non-subjectivity. It becomes funny because no one even knows what objectivity or subjectivity means, yet everyone uses it as a cheap term without meaning. The problem with objectivity is that people tend to conflate the metaphysical objectivity with the epistemological objectivity.

>>13965545
The Art of Painting by Johannes Vermeer is objectively the best piece of art ever made.