Mary Smith - The Nature of Art (Class Reading #3)

When John Dewey talks about the nature of art, he is talking about all the different things that are brought into art, and all the different perspectives taken from it. Art is supposed to bring satisfaction to the viewer; he discusses how the artist and the artwork itself are what makes the piece, the two are needed to make each other, one cannot go without the other. He call this "aesthetic artistic" in that the physical object is that "artistic" means and the experience in which you have is what "aesthetic" means.  "Art, to be art, must be both artistic and aesthetic and have both an objective and a subjective side." This could mean an architect himself holds a special place in his art for a piece of artwork that is of an immense building and all the detail being put into it.