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What Defines Art?

PostPosted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 5:32 pm
by Son of the Silver Fox
I know beauty is in the eye of the beholder but how do YOU define what is art? Is it that which is beautiful? Evocative? Realistic? Please state your definition or preference and why.

PostPosted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 8:36 pm
by Nefer
Art is whatever sings to your soul, and puts a smile in your heart.

Pair of shoes, cute t-shirt, coat, painting, sculpture, whatever.

PostPosted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 11:00 pm
by Rivaan
I believe that art is something that moves you. That's not to say that everything that moves you is art. But to qualify as art, in my eyes, an object has to move you.

It can move you in any number of ways. An example would be the picture I am using in my avatar here (just to the left). When I saw the full pic, I didn't think much of it except it looked nice. Then once I realised what the picture was depicting (nothing sexual), I was shocked quite a fair bit. After the initial emotion of shock, I was left in awe and admiring the skills of the creator. I don't know if I can post that picture here though, or even a link to it. It's not sexual, but may be considered distasteful or just shocking.

PostPosted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 7:27 am
by Yakumo
Art was a subject at school that only a select few could master, and often that select few were clearly not artists!


Art surely is the creation of something that is percieved by all to be something that affects an emotion in the individual that is viewing it. As described above this could be one of many emotions, shock, revulsion, joy, happiness et al.

PostPosted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 9:00 am
by Matbow
Rivaan wrote:I believe that art is something that moves you. That's not to say that everything that moves you is art. But to qualify as art, in my eyes, an object has to move you.


QFT

PostPosted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 6:11 pm
by Penitent
Art is something that makes our lives richer. Art reminds us of the greatness of man and brings civilizations together even in times of turmoil. Art makes me realize that there are things bigger than me and encourage me to try harder and reach further. It goes from Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel in The Vatican to what my wife cooked for dinner last night. Art is that, and everything in between that affects us in a positive way.

OK, it has been a long day, let me get off my soapbox now…

PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 1:15 pm
by Son of the Silver Fox
I agree whole heartedly, Art is that which moves you, however NOT in a negative way.

PostPosted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 9:51 pm
by Son of the Silver Fox
Okay folks,
we have put a little imput about what is Art, and I have let this thread lie dormant for a while...
Now tell me what is NOT art.
I think that this will be tougher if you are not honest with yourself because the defenders of art will accept ANYTHING as art,
I have seen truly great art and I have seen that which is nonsense (read Shit) peddled off as art.
Jackson Pollack flinging paint in anger is NOT that much different than a chimpanzee flinging his own shit.
Andy Warhol and P.T. Barnum both believed that there is a sucker born every minute because Warhol sold straight up dreck.
The National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. has a wing dedicated to single color 12 foot by 12 foot canvases where they have been hanging for 20+ years.
Where art is concerned society pressures us to accept anything called art as such but...
Do any of you have the nerve to say that the emperor is naked?

PostPosted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 2:03 pm
by delby
Thanks for that silva it really made me giggle.

I was once asked my opinion my dear friends partners final exam piece,I didnt want to give offence so i stood pondering it for while. imagine that shade you get when you mix all colours of paint , plastered over a canvas on which was stuck a hoover pipe and other junk in the shape of a tadpole, it was meant to represent procreation.I was about to make some banal encouraging remark when my then three year old son kicked the said piece and said" did someone do that at nursery school its not very good." :D

I didnt know whether to laugh or cry but now they ask his opinion and not mine.

PostPosted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 7:51 pm
by Son of the Silver Fox
:lol: "from the mouths of babes." :lol: