It sneaks in the back, the more startling for being the result of dumb luck. "3 Kimmelman redefines what a masterpiece is, and believes a masterpiece can be an accidental product of amateur skills. When the Kodak camera was first invented, it did not have a viewfinder. A person would simply point and shoot the camera without really knowing what the result would be. The intention was to capture what the person was seeing, but heads might be cut off or the object of the image could be partially out of the frame. For example, a man could have taken a picture of his boyfriend and when the picture was printed, the top half of the boyfriend's head might be cut off and all that would be seen would be a smiling mouth and a body, no eyes or top of head. The actual image was not what was intended, but there is a new, unique aspect given to it. .
Intention is where the artist starts, but by the time the piece of art is finished the initial intention really does not matter. Often the resulting work of art is not quite what the artists intended, and then sometimes the end result can be a masterpiece. At this point the intention has no relation or relevance to the unintentional masterpiece that was the end result, such as in the photography example. In the book "Six Names of Beauty, " Crispin Sartwell looks at the intentions of famous artists. Famous, well-accomplished artists like Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollock "painted to change the world. They tried not to please but to overwhelm. "4 Whether or not they accomplished this is determined by the test of time and whether or not the pieces are still talked about. Everybody's reaction to a work of art varies. What someone might consider beautiful another might consider ugly or not aesthetically pleasing. Beauty is not a single, definitive quality, rather a quality given by the individual viewing the art. .
The viewer perceives a piece of art as beautiful when they have an emotional connection with the art.
