What is art coming to these days? Not just visual art, but poetry, literature, etc. We had a nice discussion in my poetry class about what is considered poetry today, and whether or not it should be considered such. The main question was: How far is too far in poetry? Holly used the example of a poem with one word: Dog. Someone could probably pass that off as a poem. I read a poem that was the same sentence repeated for about 10 lines. To me, that is not poetry. I wondered how it had even made its way into an anthology. It was just a sentence being repeated over and over. I know another recent form of poetry is the prose poetry. Maybe this is just me, but I’ve always perceived a poem as having some kind of structure to it to make it more meaningful. Prose poetry, to me, is just a beautiful piece of prose, nothing more.

 And with art, I use this example all the time: Someone can put a dot on a peice of paper and pass it off as high art. It’s not! It’s a dot on a peice of paper. How can something like that be put into an art show?

 All forms of art have lessened in quality in the past 50 years or so. I don’t think anyone could surpass Shakespeare and da Vinci, but a repeated line? A dot? Is that really necessary?

 Art should be something that takes talent, and not everyone has that talent. That’s not a bad thing, though, don’t get me wrong. I’m not trying to say that you’re talentless if you can’t produce some kind of art. But the quality of art should not be lessened simply so someone can say they’ve created it. It should be meaninful and worthwhile, not a repeated line and not a simple dot.