Why art is important | Katerina Gregos | TEDxGhent
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- This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Katerina Gregos is convinced that contemporary art has an important role to play in society, as one of the last frontiers of free expression. Today, artists and cultural practitioners, rather than politicians, are leading some of the key discussions about the state of the world. Contemporary artists challenge each and every one of us to reinterpret social and political events, and crack cemented opinions as well as dominant narratives propagated by the media and those in power. As an internationally respected curator, Katerina has curated a number of exhibitions dedicated to exploring the relationship between art, politics, democracy, the new global production circuits, and human rights. Let yourself be inspired by Katerina’s talk at TEDxGhent 2014, and find out what contemporary art can contribute to society.
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Everyone seems to be watching this for school. I mean so am I except I found this on my own as research for a project. And as an aspiring artist I felt really touched by this. Certainly one of my favourite TED talks and definitely one I will come back to watch in the future!
We are on the same page, would you like to get in touch? I would love to discuss this topic with a fresh mind, surely getting greater insight and new outlooks.
SAMEE IM USING THIS VIDEO FOR A ASSIGNMENT☠️
I love painting, making art. And after few days I'm going to start my new college, I'll be making some new friends. So I'm watching this to be prepared to present the greatness of art to them, to make them fall in love with art
Same here 👋
@@easy.3D I’d love to I NEED opinions on a project I’m working on
It baffles me how so many people have no idea what goes into art. That most people only see the surface of art, as drawing or painting and doesnt take a second thought to question what else goes into it. Art is everything, created with science, research, literature, critical thinking, anaylsis, courage, emotion, philosophy, psychology and social structure. It would be impossible to explain the importance of art in one lecture. Yet i am glad we are making an effort.
I had to watch this for a college class
same boring as fuk
same, required class
i had to watch this for a HS class
I hada watch this for a highschool class...
DJ Astro Brando meeee 2
Why does art always have to critic society and attempt to start a revolution to be valid? I find the art that exposes the beauty of life leaves more of an impression on me. I think there is enough doom and gloom in the news and in society to begin with, we should give praise to artists who are brave enough to move against the current of negativity and instead create artwork that inspires people to be happy and look for the good in the world.
I understand that there is a place for art that calls for change and represents important issues, but we shouldn't write off art that chooses instead to spread positivity. The old masters and most distinguished pieces of artwork didn't have to cry wolf to be considered valid. Van Gogh's "Starry Night" is still art. The Mona Lisa is still art. The Kiss is still art. If the art world had always adhered to the standards she speaks about in this video, then most of the art world's beloved paintings today would be considered useless.
I think you did not get the point
I haven't watched the video yet but I know what you're saying. I'm an art student myself and feel the same. When I was given projects to make art on social issues I felt pressurised and still remain confused if all art work that an artist has to make, why is it necesssary to be on such topics, and why not about inspiring,uplifting people and their mind. Of course there are art works that's more positive but mostly the topic or visuals are about issues and all sorts of bad things that's happening around. @Solenne Songer
it does not..
artist are mostly emos with poor self esteem.. lol
You are also right, and I understand where you are coming from. For me the key is that you are making art out of what moves *you*, whether that be viewed as negative or positive by anyone else. The point is, *you* as the individual feel strongly about it. That is the revolutionary act.
Art gives expression to what cannot be logically expressed, thereby expanding human horizons which would otherwise be confined into dull 3 dimensional reality bound by time.
Thank you, i'll use this in my presentation
@@ambradimaio1177 wtf😂😂
@@kartikji4399 lol. Right
@@ambradimaio1177 naqal nie aqal istimaaal kro
Art changes the world on a micro level...
So true
And you can express your ideas drastically stronger than just using dry words
I love especially this bit: "Art is a subtle power that changes the world one perception at a time"
Watching this for myself, no college. Just realizing now I've been in my career but have never taken an art class after 4th grade. Might be a good video for some direction for artistic expression for myself vs technical execution for work.
I like the expression of Antony Gormley saying about art that it makes the world. Yes, that piece of paper, song, poems and whatever can change the world, even goes to make one.
Excellent. So very true and need desperately in today’s society. More than ever. The way forward is through art. Everyone is an artist
I ... am surprised to find how much of her speech I disagree with, despite getting my BFA soon and conducting my senior thesis research on these central topics of the impacts of art. Art is not guaranteed to be wielded responsibly, ethically, or for all of these lovely ideals that she suggests it is. Not in the slightest. It /can/ be impactful and in many great instances it has influenced societal ideal shifts and revolution- but only when artists and viewers interact with a work with intent to bring about these results. And that is assuming that those intents are for such ideals as she holds at all. Art is a tool, a means to an end- be it societal change or an attempt to escape from society all together- but it is not possible for it to bring about these ends by itself. Just as a hammer is no use in building a house without a hand to wield it or a nail in wood for it to strike, so too can art be wielded to build something greater when used by a hand to make an effect and an object to receive that effect. Moreover I think it is nearly dangerous and irresponsible to not teach artists the ability of their work to have an effect, the ability of their hands to wield hammers, the ability of hammers to strike nails, and the ability of a nail to be struck. To simply list art as an ends to be put on a mysterious and ephemeral pedestal rather than a means of great impact creates woefully ill-prepared students of art, ill-informed influencers of its ability to be practiced, and does us the great disservice of removing the agency of artists within their own works. Artists are not independently operating free floating individuals who are understanding of opposing views, as she suggests. They are inherently rooted in their own biases, realized and unrealized, that can impact and influence their creative works and endeavors. They are not gods, above it all, instead they are active players and participants, with a particularly powerful set of tools at their hand. Art without people to make it and people to interpret it is worth absolutely nothing.
I love seeing different kinds of arts it relaxes my mind
Art is an indirect form of communicate
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This is so deep
Art is the greatest communicator of all times
That's what I said to my friend who believes art is useless to society!
this was so good! I'm an artist and love art, but I was wondering if art had a real use! this video reminded me how art changes people and minds, it helped me to remember why I love art, and why I want to continue drawing and improving! thank you so so much! :)
That is the same reason I am here. She is proposing art increase resiliency, inspires action, and enhances quality of life. I wonder if that's backed by science.
yea lol that'd b nice to see the sources
by definition , a piece of art like a painting has no practical use other than to be looked at. so art is useless in that sense.
So much praise to artists! I'm glowing!
Art occupies a different dimension and is the portal to it. The creativity and unexplainable concepts create the future and perhaps the past. It can be political or not (or thought to be). Support the arts.
She is WONDERFUL! One thing I can tell you for sure, Adorno and Horkheimer would, not only agree with her, but also celebrate her. Love this video.
Great speech! I like when the speaker only talks, clean, simply and so efficient. Beautiful!
I just love the fact that she completely misinterprets the ending quote of Oscar Wilde's preface, which is literally preceded by
"One can be excused for making a useless thing only if he admires it profusely."
The Picture Of Dorian Gray is probably one of the best books I've ever read, I can't wait to finish it but I'm also scared, because the book itself is art and so beautifully written, that it hurts.
Ji Min ❤️💛
Her issue wasn’t wether or not Wilde was opposed to the making of art, but to the fact that he thought it was useless.
@@noni-pe9yn you missed it too...
@@jimin6813 did u ever finish the book?
I could not agree more with you Katerina! Let's be creative!🙂
Art is an escape - that's why i love it
art is not a separating factor between humans and other animals. there are certain animals like the birds of paradise or certain fish that specifically focus on beauty in creating their homes but that is with the intention of attracting mates, and so are their mesmerizing and gorgeous dance performances and mating rituals.
My mind always goes back to our frequent visits to my ancestral home in Centane near Butterworth EC. My father’s elder brother who had never set his foot in a classroom, a practising traditional healer then, would bring pieces of wood from a nearby forest, find himself a comfortable spot under a tree and proceed to carve some items for fun. One of these would be a harp (uhadi); a long arm smoking pipe or a human face etc. There was never a question as to why he was doing it or what did it represent. It was just a God given skill that most people used to while away time if they were not in the fields working.
Art is great, Art is good
Let us thank Art for our food
Shut up stupid. ;)
Lmfao
I was here for my college class , but I am IMPRESSED
The part where she says "Artistic imagination and creativity are not added bonuses for society, not the icing on the cake, they are integral to the human spirit and to human aspirations" reminds me of The Kybalion: "The world is mental" meaning that we are creative beings by nature.
Painting ...my art ...makes me feel meditative moments...why???must be something spiritual too!
I love art.
had to watch this for a class, i feel like i should just pay yt my tuition fee cuz im learning here more than my online class sjsksksk
quite simply, art inspires. art is appealing.
Art is the baking soda in the cake.
No, It's a powder which comes form a chemical which was once an atom.
@@m.t9749 r/iamverysmart but also it makes no sense whatsoever
The cake becomes art , the baking soda is a brush stroke
does everybody really think that it's only the social and political art that has value and art for art's sake is insufficient, as she says?
have you ever read books just for pleasure of traveling to other worlds, or looked at the painting just because it provoked some feelings in you? just because art is the power to transmit emotions and ideas which can't be expressed any other way right to your heart?
of not, you should definitely try.
Beautiful! 👏🏽🖤
A wonderful talk and one that I will be sharing with my postgraduate art and design students. However, to be a little nerdy: as far as I'm aware (I'm sure I'll be corrected if wrong) when 'quite' is used with an ungradable (in this case an 'absolute') adjective ('useless'), as opposed to a gradable one ('good'), it is a synonym of 'utterly' and does not ameliorate it (a synonym of 'to some extent'), as Katrina states at the beginning of her talk.
I like the video because the has a global point of view. The connection art to patients and social environments. The person is well.
This was good... Thank you!
Now in quarantine's time, we can finally understand the importance of Art.
Pedro Rebelo What did you understand about it?
@@gelopisaminasotaripitanasi5921 that every school that has Art Subject requires you to watch this
Listen, ART creates peace where there is violence and love where there is hate. THIS IS ARTS PURPOSE. Elvis was able to destroy much of racism in his segregated fans via art. Christmas music was able to bring soldiers to stop killing each other. WHAT'S TO BE MISUNDERSTOOD? If saving lives and creating a safer world for ourselves is not a purpose then EVERYTHING is meaningless
Loved this
can you help me to answer my assignment. the question is, What is the essence of art according to Katerina Gregos? Do you agree with her? Why or why not?
The one thing you realize is art is how we pass down our culture and ideas from one generation to another. Remember movies and TV reflect who we were, even the trashiest of it. Some of the first artists who reflected how the common person lived were the Dutch masters. Before that art was about religion, the rich. the powerful, and the warrior. It was impersonal. We are coming full circle back to the impersonal. Art must now be a caricature of what the powerful want us to be, not what we actually are.
Could anybody give me a hand?? What does she say in 0:57?? Is it Bowmore (that's what the subtitles show, but I looked it up and it doesn't make sense)??
This helpful for my promotional video. 😍😍
what a coincidence. i love art. she loves art. my name's Katerina. her name's Katerina. damn.
Kat Mart ⚆ _ ⚆ which one is the illuminati clone
Kat Mart no
now that's art!
My crush's name is this but her one is spelled Katarina
And hope u not that cute too. Lol
I was about to fall asleep at 9:54 but she said “open ur eyes” and I nearly 💩 myself
Whos here from school filling out answers
lmao
lol
yup
im here for an I&S project
I am here kind of for school. I am trying to find inspiration for a script for a documentary about art I am making at school.
Thanks Katerina
School? Anyone?
or is it just me
Nope, me too
me too
Great presentation.
Really appreciable speech👍👍
Art is the colour of life, even if that combination of colours is grey
i love this speech so much
Why does everyone have such a tough time defining art?
Art:=Artifacts of deliberate human creation, with the intent of envoking an idea and/or emotion.
Good art adds displays of exceptional skill to the definition.
I swear ted talks are becoming more and more windbaggery.
Gunsong1 i think this is less of defining and more questioning why it’s important
Art is a way for the person who creates it to reflect his or her own world. Of course, a work of art can be a mirror to the feelings and thoughts of people other than the artist, because people are not actually very complex and are similar to each other. Additionally, the artist and his work may have an impact on the dynamics of the period in which he lived. Because a newspaper article and a work of art are not very different in this respect. But art is not more than that. We try to place works of art in certain contexts and forcefully impose meanings that do not exist. 99 out of 100 people who look at two coins, one of which is called a "work of art" and the other is an ordinary means of payment, will not be able to tell the difference, and many will make the wrong interpretation. Only someone who knows the context historically and culturally can understand the difference. Those who understand this difference will call that coin a "work of art". However, anyone who reads an ordinary inscription of that period will understand the context and will not attribute any value to it other than its historical value.
To look at art from another perspective, let's consider the popular Mona Lisa painting. Let's take someone who is not influenced by popular culture and has no technical knowledge of painting. He will not be able to realize that the techniques used in Mona Lisa (sfumato, light and shadow, perspective, anatomy) are very advanced. According to this person, is Mona Lisa a work of art? Does it have to be? Think about it in reverse, when artificial intelligence reveals these techniques as masterfully as Da Vinci and starts producing works, will we call them works of art?
In summary, what I mean is that "art" is subjective, except for the technical part of the work. However, we mostly refer to the subjective part, not the technical part. Otherwise, the exaggerated importance of art will disappear. In the case of subjectivity, it cannot be decided whether a work is "art or not". What we do today is a completely historical and cultural classification. Therefore, art is not as important as some "authorities" say. It doesn't have to be.
Note: These ideas were formed as a result of my general perspective on life, the Art History course I took and my readings about it. If you suggest a source that clearly shows the opposite of these ideas, I would be happy to examine it.
I think the art of love and art of knowledge bind us maybe
2:19
3:03 political
6:54
I love art :)
hello, i want to use extracts from this video, and probably others in a student film ( a short documentary) , can i ?
I reccomend you to email them instead asking in comment
How funny non artist beings struggle and enjoy of trying to give meaning to art.
In summary art is beautiful because it challenges and celebrates the reality we live in.
wish she would've talked to us instead of reading a script
I totally agree. in addition, if she is an artist she will have he personal experience to share, which will benefited the viewers more than just collecting some definitions and read then.
This content is brimming with innovative concepts. I encountered a book with like themes that reshaped my perspective. "The Art of Meaningful Relationships in the 21st Century" by Leo Flint
Also look up Adrienne Rich's poem "What kind of Times are these."
What did she say at 5:57? 'Art as an...'?
Thanks
***** Thanks! ;)
did someone write a short version of this?
awesome statements ,very relevant.
Great! Thank you!
When people ask me how I got good a drawling and if there's something they can do I would say practice and be prepared for you to hate your work and for you to never be good enough at art because you will improve so much but you will never be perfect
I stopping watching Ted talk till today as an artist I love to give my own Ted talk soon
I had to watch this for my art appreciation class 🤦🏻♂️
Same :(
I was talking about this in my vlog... is the artd dead?
no i haven't finished the project yet and it's due tomorrow
I love to draw, to do watercolor portraits, to listen to classical and Opera music, to dance and taught international Ballroom and Latin. Above all, I love the decision I made, when I was a waiter, to be an architect rather than to be an artist. Because I am glad I am not homeless today ! George Wu, AIA, ARCHITECT,NCARB 2017-8-31
BTY, I never watch this video ever ! And wrote this comment ! George Wu, AIA, ARCHITECT, NCARB
Dude, architecture is an art!
Can someone make a presentation about this video? Please
Feeling better
I hadto watch this for our subject in college hehe
Same here haha
After u watched this, what kind of activity did ur prof gave u?
I like art but like... its effect is on a micro scale? Doesn't say much for its importance
when i saw that this was a TED talk i just went "ah, yes, Technology, Escolarships and Danny Devitto" and i dont know what to do with that
hey... here’s a tip, if you’re watching this for school and you have to write down ideas, just do this: you see the three dots in the corner, click on then and open transcription, yw :b
Im using this to cure my sleeplessness from caffeine overdose
lol best comment so far
I loved her accent
Who has to watch this for school
Watching for Beanstack Credit!
It's what defines humanity for over 40000 years and wasn't it Picasso who said after Altamira there's only decadence. Unfortunately there's always ignorance
2:12 what is that word did she use?
"oligarchs", most possibly you know the word "oligarchy".
thanks man
There is just no reflection about art in this TED. "We don't know what is art, we don't know what does art do, but art is important because it can do things". Every action is politic, every action can influence peoples, not only art. There is no meaning in this video.
Oh Thank goodness i thought it was just me missing something. I agree
It is an exasperatingly glib and dumbed down list of advocating cliches- as if she'd written it in the green room. Then again it may just be that she had nothing interesting to say.
Art is the voice of the powerless, and the expression of the numb
SHHHHEESSSHHH THAT'S KRAZY
pov: your watching your sibling asking for art supplies while going through a faze of only using metaphors.
😭😭
BSCOE 2-2?
Watching this as part of my critical analysis class
I think the title of this video is a bit misleading. She's not talking about art in general but about the impact contemporary art in society, which is a lot more specific topic IMO. Also, the talk was not even that good.
Not exactly the best representation of art.
Any Ielts candidate?
A speech on the importance of art while not using art to make the point. Hmm. I was hoping to show this to my visual art students, but without visuals to engage/anchor their attention, their imaginations would take over and they would hear little of what she has to say.
I get what she's saying about the 'quite useless' comment by Oscar Wilde but she doesn't understand what he meant and that's down to the intricacies of the English language. Using 'quite' in those days was the same as saying 'completely useless'
It's Land of Kate Biligton, what do you expect.
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i am watching this for university essay :(
me too :(
What did they ask u
Art should be mingled with entertainment so it can be engaging.
Example is the above video,she is talking important things but not in a convincing manner. Just reading,the talk could have been more engaging.