Arther C. Danto- Artist Talk extra credit

The first speaker that I saw was Arther C. Danto. His talk was long, yet factual about Immanuel Kant and his ideas about (or against) art Kant says that “ art has no purpose apart from its being, art goes right to the foundations of thought and nature”. Danto argued with the idea that Spirit is the creativity of art, taste is merely the judgment. Which is more of a concept than a quote. It really depends on who you ask when judging art, and deciding what is “good art” and what is not. DIfferent images speak to people in different ways, or are not as appealing to people for different reasons.
Although Danto’s talk was interesting, I found him a fairly boring speaker to listen to. He wasn’t very exciting to listen to because he was very mono tone and read a lot straight from his book. He was kind of hard to follow with his philosophy. Regardless of his speaking, I felt that the points that he made about the judgement of art were valuable to me.