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What is art?
Caiphana:
This reminds me of the discussion regarding what should be considered a sport and what shouldn't.
If your heart doesn't start beating at a higher rate, is it a sport? Is bowling just a skilled activity? What about cheerleading?
Anyway, art. I say to each his own. If it took someone a significant amount of thought to create something, it's art. Thought is the most important part in art; that's why modern art can be art. You see a fork glued to a plate with a glue gun. The artist sees a commentary on how shallow the world is because all we see is [pretentious voice] a fork on a plate! BAH! [/pretentiousness].
melmenetkwe:
Okay, so I finsihed curating an art show about 6 or so months ago, and we looked at over 200 possible pieces of art, and really, my opinion of art is something that has meaning to it. Whether it be the artist trying to say that their favourite food is maccoroni and cheese, or Billy-Joe-Bob was the one who committed the murder of his wife Mary Sue, or some sort of silent protest to society, or getting some personal experience out or WHATEVER! But for me, in order for it to be art, it has to have meaning, or some sort of symbolism to it. JMO.
Lines:
If I worked in a gallery and someone sent in a proposal involving a fork glued to a plate with hot glue, I wouldn't bother considering them. Craft is important. (I know it's just an example, I'm not singling you out, but people who do things like that irritate me.) If it was a fork on a plate that the person had actually made themselves and attached in a manner not involving glue, now that's different, but if there was no apparent effort in the making of art or even conceptualizing it, then it's nothing worth considering as art.
cTony:
To me, its some implicit or abstract (or something like that) expression of an idea or (particularly important to me) emotion.
The semantics can get in the way, and to each person there can be a unique first hand interpretation.
When emotion is conveyed effectively, an expression can reach a ubiquitous meaning (although that depends on the morales and emotional expectancies of society and is thereby tailored to that). For me, Thats enough.
Emaline:
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