If a piece of art is not understandable, it can be said that it doesn’t have a merit? Although one might argue that any form of art, from paint to poem, should be understandable to posses the value and to provide satisfaction coming from admiring the art, many appraised arts are barely understandable and even hated by mundane one, only critics appreciate their beauty. After weighing the evidence, it is certain that most masterpiece don’t accepted positively by public at first and even uneasy the people. Even though the contemporaries don’t understand its true merits, after time passed, expending the norm of the esthetic, the descendants may appreciate its merits later on .
One example of the arts whose merits hardly understandable is Banksy’s vandalism art. His pieces of art was not displayed in the gallery but sprayed on the wall in the downtown, mocking the authorities of the England such as police, surveillance system or even the ethical standpoint that we share now. Someone who watched his work; one depicts two hauteur police french-kissing each other, would flown due to arowsing uneasiness from inside. Ironically, this uneasiness make us retrospect our viewpoint to see the world and the preponderant social ethical norm. While Banksy’s art is hard to understand and make us even uneasy, it becomes one of the most valuable contemporary art in that it has the value which allows vandalism to be one genre of the art.
Like the example of Banksy’s art, dadaism, the art movement in the early 20th century, could explain how estoreric and eccentric art could have the merits. Even this time, one century has passed since then, only few understand merits and beauty of dadaism. For instance, Marcel duchamp’s piece, Fountain, ready-made man toilet, aroused sensation. While most people mocked his work by saying that how ready-made object and even stinky toilet could be the art, his work is the hallmark of art history by expanding the new genre of art and opening new zeitgeist. If dadaism wouldn’t have created, we might live in the different world.
The eccentric pieces of art which are not understandable seem at first to be botched, but once we compare these commonplace example, we could realize that these arts expand our perspective of esthetic and open new era of art history. That why many artists undergo through agony to create rowdy and not understandable art. If understandable arts have more merits than those of not understandable at first hand, the artist will sit on and only to product kitsch form of art by duplicating still-life painting.