Mary Smith - The Nature of Art - Art as Industry (Class Reading #5)

Theodor Adorno talked about the different levels of art; there's high art, and then there's low art. High art being the best of the best; the most famous artists such as Da Vinci and low art being things like folklore which isn't something original because it has been created before, it's been passed down through generations. When the "culture industry" term came into play, people thought they were seeing something new and genuine, something never done before. This new art also portrayed superficial situations in our lives which degraded us to standards below what we hold ourselves to, unless the older artworks that portrayed actual conflicts of human beings and life. I think in this generation, everyone has their own touch in the art that they construct, therefore it is unique in a way. But with this new way of displaying art, it takes away from its beauty and its meaning and makes it not original at all.