At first I was very confused about the overall deliverance of Susan Sontag's article "Against Interpretation". I did not know how to bring together the information she was using to get her message across, but after some research and analysis I feel as though I have a better sense of the meaning behind her gathered opinions of interpretation.
In my mind art has always been a matter of interpretation. Whether that artwork was a piece of music, theater, sculpture, or on canvas, the viewers interpretation is the key driver to the artworks resilience. Art has always seemed to be an intellectual expressionistic form of emotion that I could never truly get a grasp of because of the depth and breadth of certain pieces. These pieces would include those by artists such as Dali, Picasso, Beethoven, Hitchcock, and Michelangelo. Such intellectual art exists today as well, however according to Sontag there is a discrepancy, interpretation, between the intellectual world and the artistic world. Personally, I think that there is no difference between the intellectual world and the artistic world. Both worlds can exist within the world of art and they work hand and hand in order to insure the longevity of the life of art as a whole.
They say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, therefore the interpretation of art should be felt individually from its range of viewers. Even though some one may not have the highest sense of artistic ability, their interpretation of a piece of art is what makes it art to them.
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