what is art?
attempting to define
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what is art?
“Where there is selection there is art.” —BH Liddell Hart.
First comes the awe: can you believe this? Look at this video of a man running backwards on a treadmill!
Then, the panic: given art's decidedly specific turn to "man in sweats running backwards on treadmill" motifs, will art as we know it become obsolete?
Absolutely not.
Culture, or Art, is the response to society. The deviation.
Then, the panic: given art's decidedly specific turn to "man in sweats running backwards on treadmill" motifs, will art as we know it become obsolete?
Absolutely not.
Culture, or Art, is the response to society. The deviation.
Alex Dobrenko` • Will AI Replace the Artist?
amazing piece on whether AI will replace the artist. the answer is no, of course not. why? because culture is smarter than we are.
The more choices someone makes in a work’s creation, the more likely it is to be viewed as making art.
Lincoln Michel • Art Without Intention
“Art is an institution to which we turn when we want to feel a shock of surprise. We feel this want because we sense that it is good for us once in a while to receive a healthy jolt. Otherwise we would so easily get stuck in a rut and could no longer adapt to the new demands that life is apt to make on us. The biological function of art, in other
... See moreLove this definition of art, from Robert Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance:
... See moreArt is anything you can do well, anything you can do with quality, anything where there are options for doing it well or poorly. And there are very few things in this world that don't have options for doing it well or poorly. So you can make an art
“anything where there are options for doing it well or poorly”
“I think that may be the highest purpose of any work of art, to inspire someone else to save themselves through art. Creating creates creators.”
― Jeff Tweedy, Let's Go (So We Can Get Back)
Beuys believed everybody was an artist. He once said "every sphere of human activity, even peeling a potato can be a work of art as long as it is a conscious act," suggesting that every decision should be thought out and attempt to make or contribute to a work of art which in the end is society.
