Art as Family

Weitz’s statement about having no criteria for art is something particularly of interest. Since it is society and the culture therein that decides what is art and what is not, the true definition of art is completely insubstantial and transitory. Several movements throughout the twentieth century have rejected the accepted criteria for art and created things that very few today would deny is art. The DaDa movement of the early nineteen hundreds is a prime example. What is Dada? Even Dada didn’t know what DaDa was, yet it was and it was most certainly art.
But all this proves that until the criteria of art expands to include movements such as DaDa, they simply remain undefined, without falling into the category of art or not-art. They simply exist. What a world we could live in if all art were simply allowed to exist without being judged by a social elite as to whether it is worthy of the title “Art”.