| What is art?
Posted: 1/16/2007 11:45:05 AM | I have heard that art is an imitation of life. I think it is a reflection of life that can be used in many ways, helpful and the adverse. I see art as a venue of communiction and expression. Sometimes there are hidden meanings woven into the fabric of its forms, sometimes definite revelations. I love art and see it as a vauable asset.
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| What is art?
Posted: 1/17/2007 6:23:05 PM | The breath of my soul.
Soooo sexy there. Nice simple coment. | |
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| What is art?
Posted: 1/17/2007 9:58:06 PM | Abridged version of my thoughts:
Art, simply put, is the medium in which human beings attempt to efficiently transfer/convey emotion without bounds and limitations of vocabulary or language. | |
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| What is art?
Posted: 1/21/2007 7:18:27 PM | | art has so make you have some sort of emotion when looking at it | |
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| What is art?
Posted: 1/24/2007 1:55:38 PM | True art is anything that excites your soul and drives you to your own creative acts. It also makes you want to be a better person and strive for better things. It also poeticizes (my word!) and puts in perspective every aspect of your life, and I don't mean just the good stuff, but the mundane and even painful and boring things. True art also enriches and makes more profound your outlook on life and teaches you something about yourself that can help you grow as a person and live a richer, more informed and examined life. Plus, above all, it gives you that unmistakable, yet undefinable, life-affirming surge of joy that just makes everything in your life OK and dignified (no matter how bad your life is)., even if just for a few hours, or even minutes.
Sounds a lot like love doesn't it? Ah, but I think it's better because you can always count on it (not that love isn't absolutely exhilarating and essential either). It will never let you down like people can -- art is always there for you and will always listen and not make you feel alone. | |
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| What is art?
Posted: 1/25/2007 3:43:59 PM | i think anything can be art.......there just is bad art and good art......i think there is art in everything people do...different things appeal to different people....i would hate everyone to like the same thing....very popular art also doesn't really mean it is good art...just popular......the way someone walks down the street can be art......the way someone speaks can be art........art isn't always pleasant either.........
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gaby.s
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Joined: 2/24/2007
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| What is art?
Posted: 3/16/2007 6:37:11 AM | | I think that there are two processes in the creation of art (1) art is the act of creating the work , it is the spark from the individual and what made him or her choose to express their feelings at that particular time , in that particular style and (2) the spark from the individual viewer of the final ' end product , that person's individual emotive reaction to the work - which may well transcend centuries of time , also age , race , religion and any other boundaries. I think that (1) can be a self satisfying even theraputic experience and (2) can be social even entertaining if different viewers can discuss their reactions to the work ........but best of all I think is if (1) and (2) can combine ........I have inspirational paintings on my walls , the paintings are not the art , they are a memory of my reaction to those works and further memories of discussing those feelings directly with the artist ( Oliver Pengilley). | |
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| What is art?
Posted: 5/10/2007 7:05:43 PM | | Art to me is freedom,opportunity, educational,emotional,communicative,birth,death, it's what I am , it's what I want to be, it gives me self worth. To tell the truth ,I can probably go on for ever on what I beleive my definition of art is , but how do you define the undefinable. Art has it's own life,and I beleive ,will always out grow society. | |
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| What is art?
Posted: 5/10/2007 7:13:24 PM | | Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being. | |
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| What is art?
Posted: 5/28/2007 6:08:23 PM | | ok what is art???i believe in its most obvious and simplistic display..gut feeling..is nothing but simple self pleasure..for example..watch a child who has just learned to walk..squat in the sand and put their finger in the sand and amke a mess and looka t you and point and be absolutley thrilled about it..thats about as basic as it gets by definition.....selfserving..happiness...soooo how can it get sooo.miscontrued..i know it sounds sooo simplistic but think about it..just like caveman and his mind..simple self pleasure and happiness.....ok you can smash my soapbox.now although i would like feedback on my reply...for me when i discovered monet and waterlillies series..i just love the colours..you could eat them ..the emeralds and purple hues running together.. | |
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| What is art?
Posted: 5/30/2007 5:15:04 PM |
I'm trying to wrap my mind around a concept that is brough up in a book of mine. The statement in particular that troubles me is; "Art belongs to a non-socializable aspect of reality, which is universal...but non-collective: to the nature of man's consciousness"
This is mostly true. Few people know that art has a set of rules, known as elements and principles of art. This includes Shape, Color, Emphasis, Balance, etc.
You know how when you go to a hospital, and you see blue/green everywhere? That is an effect of color, such "cool colors" can lower the heart rate and relax people.
I belive he is true when he says it is "the nature of man's consciousness" but I'm not so sure it is non-collective. Then again we will never know because mankind has yet to return to its state of nature where one is independant and happy.
The book goes on to state that art serves no practical, material end. That art is an end in itself, that it is meant for contemplation which becomes so intense that it becomes self-sufficent and self-justifying.
I belive this is also true.
You could argue that you buy a chair because of the "artistic value" it has, but in the end, you are still buying a chair.
If you buy, say, a portrait to hang on your wall, then that is the "self-sufficent and self-justifying" part he is talking about. And he is true, a picture on the wall serves no practical end. You don't eat on it, or sleep on it, because it is mearly there to be apreciated as art. | |
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| What is art?
Posted: 5/31/2007 12:20:56 AM | Um.
You know how when you go to a hospital, and you see blue/green everywhere? That is an effect of color, such "cool colors" can lower the heart rate and relax people.
If you buy, say, a portrait to hang on your wall, then that is the "self-sufficent and self-justifying" part he is talking about. And he is true, a picture on the wall serves no practical end. You don't eat on it, or sleep on it, because it is mearly there to be apreciated as art.
Not even if it's...blue?  | |
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| What is art?
Posted: 5/31/2007 2:44:24 PM | Art very much has a practical useage... it's one of the few things that makes the the general public think nowadays (probably the not the way the artist wanted, but it's still thinking non-the-less). Ex. Shock Art and War Art.
Art doesn't just serve a single mans purpose, in fact most art is aimed towards the public, or so I think. Ex. The painters throughout history, most painted the scenes or people they did so they could be remembered, and they represent a fraction of time.
There is a difference between entertainment and art, and it all depends on the person, because not all people consider all forms of art entertaining. Ex, most men don't like sitting in an art gallery, but they like music. Classical music, versus the paintings from that era. Etc. etc. | |
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| What is art?
Posted: 5/31/2007 4:21:28 PM |
Not even if it's...blue?
I think you missed the point.
So no, not even if it is blue. People do not use blue paintings to relax. | |
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| What is art?
Posted: 5/31/2007 7:57:15 PM | I've ruminated, contemplated and cogitated on this for many years and my concise definition of art is as follows;
Art is the evocation and communication of the transcendent. | |
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| What is art?
Posted: 5/31/2007 10:03:04 PM |
I think you missed the point.
Oh, okay. Sorry. In that case do you think you could make your point again, perhaps without contradicting yourself this time?
It just might be easier to understand that way, is all.
People do not use blue paintings to relax.
What, if they do it's not art? | |
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| What is art?
Posted: 6/1/2007 7:41:24 PM | K this is what I hate... I was an art agent for about 5 years, represented 4 artists in my mothers company... What I hate is people who try to be dilatants and explain art!
There is not explanation, it is art! It makes you smile! it looks good! You can put it on yer wall! you can listen to it, feel it and that’s all! There is nothing to analyze! so Please stop! Enjoy it... if it makes you smile, and appreciate it... You will stop by it or listen when you get home and it makes you feel real again and alive! then that is art... | |
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Joined: 5/26/2005
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| What is art?
Posted: 6/2/2007 5:53:32 PM | | ART lacks a satisfactory definition. It is easier to describe it as the way something is done -- "the use of skill and imagination in the creation of aesthetic objects, environments, or experiences that can be shared with others" (Britannica Online) -- rather than what it is. | |
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| What is art?
Posted: 6/2/2007 7:03:07 PM | | Art is in the eye of the beholder. | |
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| What is art?
Posted: 6/3/2007 2:50:44 PM | | It is in the mind of the beholder, be it in the mind of the art's creator or in the mind of the one who witnesses the art, utilizing whatever human senses are called upon. | |
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| What is art?
Posted: 6/3/2007 7:19:59 PM | art is an externalized mirror of our collective unconscious filtered through an individual's perception.
i like this explaination.
art IS. that is what it is. just something one needs to do.
it is also someting that one needs to see, feel, hear, taste, touch, smell, expeirience.
art is very individual. what is good art to one, is junk to another.
you can have a room devoid of everything; only walls, ceiling, and floor. it is still art. it has been the expersion of someone's creativity to build that room.
jmho
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| What is art?
Posted: 6/4/2007 10:13:47 AM | StrayCat
I agree, art comes from the soul and it feeds the soul. | |
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| What is art?
Posted: 6/4/2007 1:09:09 PM | Art is something that can be done in solitude and you never feel alone...
Art is consciousness, that comes from the unconscious...
Art is truth rapped in mystery...Art is in "everything"...you just have to know where to look... | |
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| What is art?
Posted: 6/6/2007 8:46:18 PM | insuregent...agree with ur def too
it art is,it is just it. cant be without it, part of a person
katte | |
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| What is art?
Posted: 6/11/2007 7:40:06 PM | | Ok I'm not even going to pretend to completly comprehend all that. But as someone who like to not only look at the works of others but also enjoys to try her best at puting life into a drawing now and agian I do think that art has many practical ends as well as Social aspects. If it didn't why would we now still be talking about and longing to see some of the many great works of art all cultures have to offer. Is there a difference between art and entertainment... depends on which side of the fence your looking from. If your the creator of what we now consider entertainment you may see you work as art. But to those who seek it as entertainment, then of corse our opinon will vary. | |
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