To say that art has no meaning, is up to the eyes of the beholder. For example when you are walking around an art museum, and you see a canvas with nothing but the color blue on it, to you it may seem like just a canvas of blue yet to someone else it could reference to something out-worldly. Another example, tattoos. The numbers on a persons body may mean nothing to you, but it could represent something deeper. Art doesn't have to be contained to what you see with your eyes either, it can be music or writing, doesn't necessarily have to be a pretty picture. It could be something you feel, figuratively or literally. I think that in some aspect an assignment can hinder the meaning of art. The ways it can limit for example if a teacher says "draw a yellow cat with pink polk-a-dots", "draw (insert something specific)." However if a teacher makes an assignment that can be interpreted in different ways, it doesn't limit in the same way saying to draw a specific thing does. I personally am a huge fan of when a piece of artwork can be seen figuratively than literally or has a deeper meaning.
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