What Is Taste

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What makes one thing taste nicer than the other is an unanswerable question. However this is only one version of taste. What I am interested in is why someone finds a Monet more pleasing to the eye than a poster of a super model, or not. Fashion could make us like something more than another, like peer pressure. I believe that taste is personality, and I understand personality as Sigmund Freud theorized: personality is created from everything that has ever happen to the individual. Monet's art is considered to be 'good art' and popular, because it has so many familiar images in the paintings. When a painting is looked at, light is reflected off the image and into the eye. It is then converted into the brains format, which we visualize in our mind. The brain specifically picks out certain shapes and colours, forms and subjects, as they are different or familiar depending on the individual. The reasons for the brains decision on which images are more attractive than ...

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must be logic behind it. The end of the Renaissance was also the end of the great Masters. They were masters because they were intellectual and had great understanding of the world around. Individual subconscious' listen to higher intelligence, the masters professionalism secured peoples believes of artists as highly intelligent and skilled people. Others with this reputation were doctors and the clergy, therefore respect for the artist grew the more professional they became. At the end of the Renaissance artists began to be widely classified by their skills; architects and artists, for example. Because of this the artists of the Renaissance were the last artists who officially ...

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