"Danto says that the existing theories on art shape our view of art and enable us to see art at all.
Give an example from your own life in which you only fully understood and appreciated a work of art after it and the theory surrounding had been explained to you. Now think of a work of art you still dislike/don't understand and assess how an understanding of the theory behind it could change your mind."
Sometimes, I've read things, such as poetry, and I just didn't get it. Last year in one of my classes, I read a poem by an Irish author that dealt with a man who turned into a woman over night. I didn't understand what was going on in the poem at all, and I looked it up and found out that it was based on a very old folktale. After I got that, I appreciated it more in a way I didn't before.
Shakespeare is something I've never really understood. I read some things by him that I liked, but other stuff I didn't get into and just wrongly assumed it was overhyped. I definitely don't understand Shakespeare completely, but I've learned many things about it, and while reading his plays and prose, I have a great deal of respect for the man. For example, his use of language is something I didn't understand. I later found out he had a vocabulary of over 29000 words. From this, I've gotten a great appreciation of his use of language that I didn't have before.
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