Emotionalism

Emotionalism: Evoking the emotional responses

Both instrumentalist and emotionalist artists pay more attention to the messages behind the arts than they do on the form. This attribute makes them different from artists who follow the formalist or the imitationalist perspectives.

This aspect is the thing that makes it different from instrumentalism. So an emotionalist artist will see art as a great art if it invokes a person’s emotional reaction. In other words, the arts are judged as “decent” when the person seeing them feels happy, sad, awkward, and more, after sensing the arts in different ways