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Question 1

purpose of art

Answer 1

convey the artist’s feelings/experiences to the audience: specifically highest feelings possible from religious perception: unite/empathize

Question 2

why is sincerity important

Answer 2

audience can tell if the artist is sincere with the transmitted feeling. If they aren’t audience is repelled from the transmitted feeling

Question 3

what characterizes genuine art

Answer 3

the degree of infectiousness:
- individuality of transmitted feeling
-clearness with which the feelings transmitted
-sincerity of artist

Question 4

why is wealthy people’s art counterfeit art

Answer 4

doesn’t communicate uniting feelings, involves status symbols (division)
good art unifies

Question 5

can decorative art be genuine to Tolstoy

Answer 5

NO, because it doesn’t unite nor make people empathize with each other

Question 6

is The Comedian genuine art

Answer 6

it is, because it evokes the distinct feeling of astonishment/absurdity very clearly as the composition itself gives off a satire feeling. It does unite us into questioning contemporary art and its elitism by pointing out the absurdity of it.

Question 7

ex of contemporary art tolstoy deems genuine, why

Answer 7

The Artist is Present by Marina Abramovic because it creates intimacy transmits feeling of being seen

Question 8

appraisement of feelings

Answer 8

acknowledging which feelings or better/ more necessary, made by religious perception