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Is subjectivity overly celebrated in the arts but unfairly condemned in…

- - - - The 'kesepakatan' in interpreting the art is what makes the subjectivity being celebrated
    - - This raises ethical concern.
    - - Audiences celebrate the artist's artwork by applauding, giving likes, engage with the artists or the artworks. In the meantime, they actually celebrate their subjectivity too. When they can see, understand, interpret, relate their subjectivity with the art, then they appreciate the art.
    - - Mona Lisa painting by Leonardo da Vinci, art critics did not begin praising the painting as a Renaissance masterpiece until the 1860s. The Louvre acquired the painting in 1804, but it didn’t draw too many visitors until 1911 when headlines firmly planted her in the public consciousness. After then that public started to perceive the art as beautiful painting. So, it is the subjectivity, the perception of audience that is being celebrated. isn't it? Or maybe both? Why is the Mona Lisa so famous
  - - - The disapproval comes from historians themselves when they compare timelines and primary resources they had about the event. For example, Hang Tuah's existence is argued by historians
  - - - There are a few perspectives we should consider on the arts and one of them is their purpose.
    - - Critics of subjectivity in history argue that it undermines the objectivity and accuracy of historical knowledge, and that historians should follow accepted standards of evidence, documentation, and evaluation
    - - What is subjective knowledge?
        
        Subjective knowledge is born from the contents of individual mind of people. It is based on subjectivity concept that relates to conscious experience, feelings, beliefs and desires that allow generating perspectives.
- - - - What makes the subjectivity being condemned? The source materials for historical study consist of personal experience, official statistic, and documentations which can also be classified as primary and secondary source. In evaluating the content of documentation, American histrorian, Gilbert Garraghan, offers some guidelines for critism of sources. In the other hand, Sir Geoffrey Elton said that historical method is a recognised method to extact true facts, while Edward Hallett (EH) Carr said that true facts and events of the past are not in a pure form, as it is refracted from the mind of the recorder. Thus historians who wrote it may influence the history through his or her own bias interpretation.
      - What is historical perception? It refers to the understanding of a subject in light of its earliest phases and subsequent evolution. This perspective differs from history because its object is to sharpen one's vision of the present, not the past, cited from Barbara S. Lawrence in Historical Perspective: Using the Past to Study the Present