Second Dewey Question

Can “pieces of art”, even if they were not originally intended to be so, be greater appreciated as time continues to go forward?  Or will it eventually lose all aesthetic pleasure?


Many arts and crafts have endured the test of time and have remained to be considered great pieces of art to us nowadays.  Caveman paintings are still looked at with great fascination and interest, and, in my opinion, will probably continue to until the end of the human race.  This goes for all other great pieces of art and crafts and architecture from the past.  The Parthenon, Stonehenge, all these pieces of history are seen as art, and it is because they are part of history that they will endure.


Years from now, like a hundred years (if we still exist), I believe that humans will look at cave paintings and still find them as fascinating and interesting, if not more, than we do now.  This is because they are a part of our human history, taking us back to when we were our most primitive.  It was be absolutely foolish not to revere these pieces of art, to ignore them is to ignore us as humans and where we came from.  If we can view them as our history through art, then that is the best that we can do, and from this, aesthetic pleasure will endure in these objects and in our history.