![]() Cezanne painted Mont Sainte-Victoire repeatedly because he was fascinated by it, not because he thought that painting it would say something about politics or society or human hopes. But although it is merely a reaction, laughing is, in fact, good for something nevertheless it does make people feel better. We do not laugh so that we can achieve a further goal - in order to be healthy or relaxed, say, even if we thereby succeed in being healthier or more relaxed - but simply because the joke has elicited that reaction. ![]() It is often an attempt to capture an aspect of the world, to draw attention to something about it, to comment on it, to present a surprising or fresh angle on it, to represent it for the sake of exploring something about it, or enjoying or celebrating it - for example, the colours or shapes of an object, its eccentricity or typicality, the interest or repugnance it provokes.įor a loose comparison, think of laughing at a joke. This can be shown as follows.Īrt is one major form of response to the world. ![]() But the generalisation that art, whatever else it is, is always an end in itself, applies to them all. The word "art" does duty here for painting, sculpture, music, literature, dance and theatre performance, and whatever else (to quote Andy Warhol) anyone can get away with in calling it "art". What art is "good for" arises from its being an end in itself, or more accurately, the embodiment of many different things that are valuable for their own sakes. Even though art can sometimes be instrumental, that fact is not essential to its nature. An end in itself is its own justification for existing. An instrument exists for something beyond itself - namely, for what it can be used to do. The distinction here lies between things that are instrumental and things that are ends in themselves. On the contrary, as one of the greatest goods of human experience, it is good for many things. ![]() Because the work is its own justification, no further aim or goal is necessarily required to explain or, still less, to justify its existence.īut to say that art does not have to serve an aim beyond itself, even though it may sometimes do so, is not to say that it is good for nothing. But equally, an artist may just make art because he feels compelled to. It is the artist, not art as such, that may have an aim in mind, and his aim may be to do any of the things just listed. Art does not have to have a purpose - it does not exist in order to teach, to urge a moral point, to entertain, to distract, to amuse, to serve beauty, to support a revolution, to disgust, to challenge, to stimulate or to cheer it exists chiefly for its own sake. Game hasn't forgotten about the song, either, as he recently performed "Hate It Or Love It" on Skee TV and dissed Young Thug with a quick live freestyle during the song.To ask what art is good for is not exactly the same as asking what its purpose is. We won't be hearing 50 on the Documentary 2, but we will hear production from both of the track's producers, Cool & Dre and the other D.R.E. Of course, we can't forget the G-Unit remix, which would appear on 50 Cent's The Massacre two months later, but this is the OG. Since, after one of the decade's top beefs, they've gone separate ways, but "Hate It Or Love It" remains a shining moment in hip-hop history. At the time, Game was signed to 50's G-Unit, and both were signed to Dre's Aftermath. The album is the sequel to, and arrives over 10 years after, The Documentary, his 2005 debut album, off which this classic, "Hate It Or Love It," is taken. Today's #TBT is in honor of The Game, who will release his sixth studio album, Documentary 2, tomorrow (Oct. 1 MAKE IT STOP Today's #TBT is The Game and 50 Cent's "Hate It Or Love It," one of the best tracks of the '00s.
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