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Undertoad 01-28-2016 03:47 PM

What is art?
 
answer pls

Gravdigr 01-28-2016 04:22 PM

Paraphrasing:

Quote:

I know it when I see it.
~Some Guy

Gravdigr 01-28-2016 04:22 PM

Hell, I don't even know it when I see most of the time.

DanaC 01-28-2016 04:49 PM

I read that in the voice of Cunk.

fargon 01-28-2016 04:57 PM

Do you mean Philomena Cunk?

DanaC 01-28-2016 05:00 PM

I do indeed.

fargon 01-28-2016 05:04 PM

She don't look anything like Gravdigr.

Gravdigr 01-28-2016 05:25 PM

:headshake

:D

fargon 01-28-2016 05:25 PM

She didn't do a "Moments of Wonder" on art. But she did one on philosophy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLAk...r324YB&index=6

fargon 01-28-2016 05:30 PM

I believe that philosophy and art go hand in hand. Most "Art" requires thought to fully understand.

sexobon 01-28-2016 06:29 PM

I generally consider art to be inessential creativity that appeals. There can obviously be more to it (e.g. the art of medicine); but, this seems to be the contemporary mainstay.

xoxoxoBruce 01-28-2016 07:27 PM

There is no answer that would be universally accepted. Sometimes paint is used to make pleasant pictures, and sometimes it's just weather proofing. Many, maybe most, think Picasso made pleasant pictures, I think he was weather proofing canvases. Maybe the best answer I can conjure, is creating something that pleases yourself, but I can't see the division between art and craft.

glatt 01-28-2016 07:46 PM

I'm skeptical of the whole "art" thing, and discussions about "art." I've seen crude stuff in museums that I wasn't very impressed by, but somebody decided it was art. Whatever.

But there is something. Art is real. When you take one medium and you manipulate it to represent something else entirely, I think there is something special going on there. Chip off bits of a rock and it becomes a person. That's magical.

footfootfoot 01-28-2016 09:00 PM

Sorry, 'what is art?' is kind of a trollish question.

xoxoxoBruce 01-28-2016 09:27 PM

Oh, I know... Art is a diverse range of human activities in creating visual, auditory or performing artifacts, 'cause Wiki said so.


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