what is art?
attempting to define
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what is art?
Tolstoy, in What is Art?
... See moreEvery work of art causes the receiver to enter into a certain kind of relationship both with him who produced, or is producing, the art, and with all those who, simultaneously, previously, or subsequently, receive the same artistic impression… Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea
Love this from Yancey Strickler:
An artist is a self-employed self-expressor.
A creator is a self-employed commercial expressor.
“Where there is selection there is art.” —BH Liddell Hart.
GenerativeAI can conjure up a tree if you ask for one, but it will come from the commonality of attributes across the trees in the model’s training data. Under the hood, large language models (LLMs) and generative media models are trained on massive amounts of data to help predict a sequence of words or pixels based on the prompt you provide. So,... See more
Scott Belsky • DIY Software, Where Betting Markets May Take Us, & What Makes Art
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.
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.
