| What is art?
Posted: 6/11/2007 7:58:04 PM | Art is cheap if its crap, and expensive if it isnt  | |
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| What is art?
Posted: 6/13/2007 10:59:37 AM | | Or art is what? Well a big question and difficult to give a definition but maybe something that either touches your soul or mind, which can be different for who ever you are. My personal feelings are you know it when you see it, but life can be art and art can be life. It can be fixed or it can be organic it can be soul and it can be souless but tomorrow it will be the same as it always was and be different. If you are confused I am as well. | |
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| What is art?
Posted: 6/19/2007 8:03:54 PM | art...
heh....i just like art.
like to see art.
like to touch art.
like to do art.
like to smell art.
like to hear art.
like to taste art.
like to feel art.
i like art.
i cannot live without art.
katte | |
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| What is art?
Posted: 6/20/2007 6:48:46 AM |
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" It troubles me, too. It is meaningless.
I already answered this pretty well in another thread. But then, so have many authors written whole books about it. I think art must be that which is difficult for students to define until they do proper research. | |
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| What is art?
Posted: 6/20/2007 2:29:32 PM | Any form of art has different qualities .
If someone who knows nothing about jazz listens to a basement jazz band, and charlie parkers greatest work wich played a part in forming what jazz music is.. They probobly coudlnt tell much difference.
If you know nothing about wine and u drink a bottle of wine which was aged for a year as opposed to a bottle from 1950 you probobly would evaluate both as pretty good.
I guess what im trying to say is , if u dont understand what something is you dont really know which graphitti would be worth looking at and which is not.
Graphitti art is not all about looking artistic or bueatiful. There is a language of symbolism. Some graphitti is just proclaiming a name , some is to convey a message, to show possession, some is just to be abstract and doesnt really serve a purpose.
In any case you probobly would not understand the differences and what the particular pieces purpose is. Then not knowing what to look for u just deem its not worth looking at.
Some modern art pieces when i look at them make no sense to me and i dont really get it. But i dont think its not worth looking at, I know for someone that peice probobly makes total sense and they understand the bueaty of it. It's me that doesnt understand it not that its not art. So i look again to try to understand open my mind and learn a new perspective that i didnt see before
all art is .. is a medium
used to convey idea's, thoughts, emotions.. Sometimes it was made to communicate to a particular audience. Some times the purpose whas just for the artist to put the emotion down for the sake of self expression.
Whatever the case if someone creates something that expresses something they wanted to, and says this is art. Then it is art. No matter how shitty others may think it is it is still art
Part of the nature of art is not to be confined by the closemindedness of the masses who base what is good and what is not by trends and following others. Artist attempt to set trends not follow them
your elitism smaks of narrowmindedness and ignorance | |
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| What is art?
Posted: 6/21/2007 12:57:15 AM | art is man creating
man, made in the image of God ,
creates as God does
so its us being weeee little imitators practicing creation like our Creator
thats why art is sooooo aweome and empowering
its like when a little kid is playing, learning about his own power...practice!
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| What is art?
Posted: 6/21/2007 9:35:49 AM | what is art?
urmm it's differant to everyone!
some people like certain stuff some people detest it
Art is a part of someone's imagination, a part of there mind and i think people should respect that as it means something to the artist
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| What is art?
Posted: 7/19/2007 11:34:04 AM | Hortense, I like the definition you posted "Art changes the way we see things." I'm not sure, but it might be from one of Gardner's books. Doesn't matter especially, I guess.
Art is pretty hard to pigeonhole simply because there are so many aspects to it. Hard as they are to look at, the art that came out of the Nazi concentration camps certainly changed the world. Picasso changed the world view of art itself. Art changes perception and opens minds in many cases.
Graffiti art is simply a subset of styles, often illegally done by non artists, occasionally done legally or illegally by artists. For some tagging is a little like a dog and a fire hydrant. Everyone knows you were there, but nobody wants to keep it. If it's done on the run in a furtive manner in the dark, it's likely to be pretty minimal. I'd like to see those who do illegal graffiti try to get legal venues for their work and take themselves and their craft more seriously. We scrub crayon marks off the walls when kids do it. Same with buildings, trains, etc. if it carries the same random "look at me, I'm having fun" or "didn't get caught" quality. | |
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| What is art?
Posted: 7/19/2007 11:34:48 AM | | Some expensive stuff is crap too and visa versa on the cheap. Depends on what motivates the artist and what their overhead is. | |
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| What is art?
Posted: 4/13/2009 8:54:59 AM | http://www.bitsofnews.com/content/view/6315/
Is this art? Is performance art truly art?
If performance art is art, is this good art? | |
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| What is art?
Posted: 4/13/2009 10:42:06 AM | OP:
Having just returned from a visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, I would have to say that the exhibits completely changed my ideas of what defines art. Aside from paintings, sculpture and carvings one normally thinks as art, the Met also had exhibits that included armour, weapons, tools, furniture, textiles, glass and most other everyday objects from the dawn of civilization to the present. Not only does their collection contradict the statements made in the book you are reading, the Met also made me realize that the art forms that go into the creation of everyday objects are directly correlated to the history of people that created them, as well as the history of the human race as a whole. I strongly suggest spending a day at the Met if you are ever in Manhattan and experiencing this for yourself. It was simply amazing. | |
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| What is art?
Posted: 4/13/2009 2:47:27 PM | Art is nothing without aesthetic value - "ugly" also being a value.
It can be a gorgeous well crafted and inspired paperweight. If it is on display, it is art, if it is holding down paper, it is an artful paperweight but it stops being art.
I have a painting of a donkey rearing back and baring teeth, inspired, I added red white and blue. I named it "angry democrat" and it stopped being art and became a statement. People see it and first see art, they see the name and it becomes a statement and it cannot be art again (for them) until seen through ignorance.
When we look at something manmade (or man displayed) and are ignorant of its purpose and we respond to its aethetic value, at that moment, it is art. | |
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| What is art?
Posted: 4/14/2009 9:02:21 AM | a definition-
Art is that which evokes emotion in the patron by creative arrangement of things not present. | |
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| What is art?
Posted: 10/30/2009 3:39:49 AM | Art is beauty.
The fact that beauty can be quantified is why art exists. There are universal structures in the physical visual world which many people find beautiful. The visual art of Tarkovsky or Michelangelo uncover some of the roots common visual mystery. Beauty is physical and in on the path to mystery, the sublime.
Art is the beautiful process by which humankind further understands the mystery of life and eternity.
Tarkovsky, Michelangelo, Bach, Shakespeare.
The antithesis of Art is revolutionary Marxist Bolshevism, the destruction of refinement of the consciousness. | |
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| What is art?
Posted: 10/30/2009 3:41:13 PM | | A Poet, Painter and a Musician are all artists. | |
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| What is art?
Posted: 10/31/2009 11:34:33 AM | Actors and Dancers are artists all as well.
Art invokes the aural and Music invokes the visual. The Dramatic arts inspire the Plastic arts and vice versa. | |
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| What is art?
Posted: 11/1/2009 5:34:00 PM | Like the Supreme Court Justice remarked on pornogrophy"...know it when I see it".
Or experiance it. | |
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| What is art?
Posted: 11/1/2009 11:44:47 PM | | That is as easy to explain as a sunset would be to a blind person who has been born that way. One either has taste and education or one does not, but there is also a way to see and hear and feel that can not be taught. Is it different to everyone? Sure. Not everyone can see, hear and feel the same way and some people have no history or perspective. Are all these views equally valid? Of course not. | |
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