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What is art?
muteKi:
I think I said on the IRC channel one of the best works of art would be an ice cream cone.
The piece would be called "Happiness".
The piece takes on more meaning as it begins to melt.
KharBevNor:
My take on the issue is that 'the best artists are children' is basically bunk. In its less thought about form it's a misunderstanding of a (I think mis)quote from Picasso about how the fact that he was a drawing prodigy (he could flawlessly reproduce Caravaggios before his balls dropped) robbed him of ever having a child-like naivete in his drawing style. The thing is, that its far more accurate to say that intelligent adults who can paint like children are great artists, since children obviously lack an intellectual depth and understanding of context to their work that I would say is pretty critical for really great art: it's ultimately what stops it all being pretty shapes or colours or scenes or whatever. Not saying that children can't produce some great stuff to look at, but it lacks the intellectual side which makes such art interesting (whilst simultaneously lacking the sense of style and knowledge of pop culture that makes good 'low' art rock). What I really think the work of children is indicative of is how darned creative we all are before the school system is allowed to systematically beat it out of us. Also, I find the artists who deliberately emulate the works of children often trite: it's the refuge of many a shit artist (David Shrigley anyone?). Artists who take that naivete and combine it with practice and technique to try and capture something vivid and essential (like Picasso did), now that's good art.
Jimmy the Squid:
--- Quote from: Emaline on 07 Oct 2007, 00:49 ---Human intent to create.
--- End quote ---
This pretty much sums it up for me. Despite all the ridiculous crazy rambling that went alongside this particular statement and the rest of the stuff about art theory (that I, admittedly, really didn't understand) in this thread, I think I agree that art is basically anything that is a result of the human intent to create.
Now defining good art... I'm sorry I can't help anyone here.
muteKi:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=VHlrE1saOMc
EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU
CONTEMPORARY INSTALLATION ART
EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU
CONTEMPORARY INSTALLATION ART
EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU
CONTEMPORARY INSTALLATION ART
You all might like this.
Caiphana:
What is art? Prostitution.
-Charles Baudelaire
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