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What is art?
Darkbluerabbit:
I understand the point, I guess, but the writing kinda sounds like stoner philosophy. My guess would be that he wrote a much longer version while baked, and then edited it later to make it more coherent. Then he poured some water in a glass.
For me, a concept piece needs to be more thought provoking than this. What I got out of it was "It's an oak tree because I said so."
Believe me, I looked for some deeper significance, but I couldn't find it. Maybe I am shallow.
iliketodraw:
Might i add that Craig-Martin is rather infamous for poking fun at the art world through various mediums.
schimmy:
Perhaps the statement he is making is that it's only art because he said so?
Glass and water aren't art, after all. Normally, when you pour water into a glass, it doesn't become art. But he 'found out' how to make a glass of water into art.
I'm sure somebody else could explain that better than me.
öde:
Rothko is shit. Of course you're more emotionally moved when you see the painting because colour invokes emotion. This is an essential part of art, but it's really just a part.
KharBevNor:
I think that Craig-Martin is mainly talking about the disconnect between the classical and romantic methods of understanding an object: the difference between underlying forms and appearances. He's also, in a way, playing with the notion of extrinsic and intrinsic properties, in that he claims to have, and indeed via the text could be said to have, altered the objects intrinsic properties without changing its extrinsic properties, which should be impossible. He's basically pissing on Kant's grave. Either that or he got high whilst reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Remember, at the end of the day, the only difference between real philosophy and stoned philosophy is that real philosophers pepper their arguments with latin phrases and know what PS1 -> TT1 -> EE1 -> PS2 means. It also takes a real philosopher four volumes to say "Man, what if, like, the whole galaxy is just an atom in another universe that is an atom in another universe and what if people like, live in the atoms in our universe?" and it takes a real philosophy postgrad student his or her whole thesis to say "Dude, that is DEEP".
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