When I experience art, I can almost immediately determine whether or not I think it's good.
If I'm looking at a painting or a sculpture, or I'm watching a fashion show or I'm watching a movie or I'm listening to a song, I can almost immediately decide whether or not I think it's good.
But I rarely ask myself why it's good.
And recently I decided to do that.
I decided to figure out what makes art good.
What's complicated about art is that it is subjective, and everybody connects to art differently.
So good art to one person is bad art to the next person.
But I do think that there is an answer to the question, what is good art?
So that's what we're going to discuss today.
And listen.
A conversation about art can very quickly turn pretentious and cringe.
But I am going to do everything in my power today to make this not pretentious and cringe.
And you know what?
We'll see.
We'll see.
Step one on my journey to answer the question, what makes art good?
Involved digging into the archives of my mind and analyzing all of my favorite pieces of art and trying to figure out what I like about it.
And what I discovered was actually really fucking obvious.
Good art is honest.
When an artist is being honest in their creation, you can feel that the peace was based on their life and the way that they see the world.