Musings on Noel Carrol

Although I think that Carrol has a very good and thorough philosophy and theory about identifying art, I believe that one must use subjective sense in order to identify good art and then find support through different theories and thinkers. Carrol's theory of the narrative approach I find very useful for verifying something as art in the sense that the contemporary piece of art, for me, it is mostly literature, in question borrows elements from past stylistic eras. These elements serve as evidence for an artist being well-versed in the past and the execution in the art form serves as a demonstration which is, more or less, subjective. However, the whole process of judging an artist's execution in an art form cannot be solely subjective, one must base it on facts and evidence and I think comparing a contemporary piece of art to a classic is how that is best achieved without subjective opinion. However, a subjective undertone can still be understood by which classic one chooses to compare the contemporary art piece in question to.