what is art?
“Where there is selection there is art.” —BH Liddell Hart.
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Alara added 8mo ago
“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)
sari added 7d ago
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 o
sari added 1y ago
- The more choices someone makes in a work’s creation, the more likely it is to be viewed as making art.
from Art Without Intention by Lincoln Michel
sari added 2mo ago
Love 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
sari added 10mo ago
“anything where there are options for doing it well or poorly”
- 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.from Will AI Replace the Artist? by Alex Dobrenko`
alex added 8mo ago
amazing piece on whether AI will replace the artist. the answer is no, of course not. why? because culture is smarter than we are.
“At the same time, art cannot be understood in terms of purpose. As the sculptor Charles Ray has said, art is “for absolutely nothing.” To make, or experience, art is to enter a kind of free zone; it slows us down, places us in some epistemological estuary, takes us into the wild. We make art from our flaws, fragilities, perversities, from our need
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