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iliketodraw:
As the title says, at what point do you think something becomes art/no longer art?

3Z3VH:
When a single, sane, and also objective person considers it art, it is art.

ThePQ4:
Hmmm...I think the word "sane" could be questionable... Lots of crazy people are 'artists  (and rather good ones, really...), or art appreciators. Essentric perhaps would be a good word.

valley_parade:
*shrug* Art is really what you make it.

I've really broadened my horizons as to what "art" actually is since the Museum of Contemporary Art opened up in town. There's some pretty interesting stuff in there that most people wouldn't really call "art", but to each their own, I guess.

Lines:
As someone who is about to start her senior year in college as an art student, that's a really hard question to answer. It really depends on the individual viewer to decide, IMO.

This is how I go about determining if something is art: If the person who made it calls it art, I will then determine if I think it is or isn't. If they say it isn't art, I may be able to find it beautiful, but it won't be art. Now this doesn't mean I think all ready-mades are art, because most of the time I think they are crap and someone trying to take an easy way out of actually making art. There's also different levels to art: popular/mass art, fine/high art, and then low/kitsch, etc. And something can still be art even though it's crap, even though that is one thing I completely disagree with (especially most Minimalist and Dadaist art, because I hate it so much).

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