We seek patterns /meanings, therefore I agree with you. A sufficiently creative person happening upon some mysterious analogy, some found object, and given enough time and energy, will try to make sense of it. He will ask if it's man-made, or how the wilderness came to form it as it is, what it may be used for etc.Such a person will allocate form to the object even if he has to analyse it to do so. I own such an object, a small piece of windfall wood that I picked up from a woodland decades ago, I simply like and value it.popeye1945 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 04, 2022 6:16 amBelinda,Belinda wrote: ↑Thu Feb 03, 2022 7:55 pmI doubt it. The idiom whatever it is (theatre, religion, two dimensional paintings and drawings, musical forms, novels etc) has to be learned.commonsense wrote: ↑Wed Jan 13, 2021 5:55 pm Laypersons have been known to say, “I don’t know what good art is, but I know it when I see it.”
Can this be true? Can the untrained eye recognize fine art? Can the ordinary viewer tell more than what he likes or dislikes?
What you say is quite true about structure, but it cannot be said about the appreciation of the beauty of form. One has an innate intelligence when it comes to the beauty of form. All through the beauty of form depends upon the quality of structure, the form of structure also has its own beauty and like you said, requires more knowledge in its creation and appreciation. Where it is said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, it depends on the form and structure of the appreciation of the subject, for it is the order and meaning of the subject which is to be bestowed upon the article/object of art.
If I may put this in my own words, I agree with you that we impose meaning on an anomaly before we impose form on it.