Christopher Gabro - American Beauty

Our exegeses on the scene from “American Beauty” was an interesting topic that lead me to the way in which we view art and how it is connected to the artist.  For Ricky Fitts, the filmmaker who filmed the paper bag in the wind, he saw everything around him as art.  The forces of the universe lead to him capturing a mere bag drifting the wind and he had a profound relationship with the bag.  But does this mean that it is art?  If so, does this not lend any experience that an individual has to be an artistic one?  Moreover, this would have aesthetic appreciation fall into relativism and then there is no way to objectify art.  The common saying “beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” while cute, is just a saying that has no bearing in the world.  If beauty was in the eye of the beholder, then my doodling’s should be hanging in art museums but they are not.  There is way in which we have common to put art into a world of its own and that a community of inquires judges whether or not a piece is an artwork or not.