In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Film and TV are the most popular mediums in America. Literature and poetry are possibly the most under-recognized art forms.
More people are exposed to movies than to most other forms of art.
I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.
Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people.
Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes trash it completely.
Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.
I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another.
Making art in America is sort of a political statement in and of itself. It's not the best environment for that sometimes.
Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
All art becomes history as soon as it is made, so it is inevitably part of a tradition. It doesn't matter a toss if it is in paint or in film; it is all art.