what makes some peices art and others just regular stuff?
2006-08-19 18:52:26 · 15 answers · asked by guitar_lady81 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Other - Visual Arts
Hey, thumbs up for a decent question among this other trash!
I have been asking myself the same thing. Did you see that Rocketboom recently where people in NY were exhibiting their art and one woman had a bunch of dryer lint in a picture frame and another woman had a collection of rubber bands on the cardboard core of a paper towel roll as a sculpture she was selling for $1000?
Who am I to doubt my abilities as an artist if THAT'S all I have to compete with? I never let myself consider being an artist as an occupation until 3 years ago when I came down w/ cancer. Now I can't think of anything I'd rather do or anything that would be more valuable for my family than my artwork.
2006-08-20 17:54:15 · answer #1 · answered by communion6 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
My definition of art is "anything in a frame" - such as Andy Warhol putting a Campbell's soup can in a frame. When someone does that, it invites the viewer to look at an everyday object in a new and abstract way - like a cylinder with red, white and gold designs. Theoretically, anything that is presented out of its environment for public consideration can be considered art. That doesn't make it good art, just a basic artistic statement.
Also, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. There's lots of things I think are "bad" art that I don't get at all, yet they get displayed in galleries and museums.
When a work of art is termed "great" it's because most people admire it plus it gets critical acclaim - like the Mona Lisa.
2006-08-20 16:27:17 · answer #2 · answered by Roswellfan 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Art is form communicating meaning.
It is also form that holds correspondence to reality and communicates a relevant and true meaning.
If you paint a flower just to be decorative, while it is artistic in a basic sense, it is not art by virtue of intention.
The form of a flower has everything to do with the flowers niche in nature and its own existence. Its beauty is a suggestion of its perfect correspondence to its environment by which it occurs as life.
If a flower were shaped like a rock, its function would be different and it wouldn't be a flower.
A rock however is attractive when it is smooth and round, because it occurs as a feature of a freestone stream which is an idyllic setting for life.
The relationship between a child and a parent is a beautiful demonstration of strength condescending to weakness to bring it up to the level of strength.
The artist is the person who recognizes these moments of profound significance in the progress of life, and presents them to us in a way that resonates with our awareness, even if our conscious knowledge is not as elevated as that of the artist.
The artist might paint a picture of a mother and children strolling through a marketplace in Europe in the 1800s with the correct cues of light, color, posture, etc. etc. etc. that brings to the forefront of our mind the totality of the concept of a mother caring for and leading and enjoying her children.
While we may say these things, the artist can demonstrate them with compelling imagery.
Even the decorative flower is art, because in all things there is the principle of life and functional meaning and therefore, although the painter may not have a full grasp of the nature and being of the flower, the artistic significance is implicit in the flower, and so it still resonates with the viewer in terms of beauty vitality, delicacy, etc. etc. etc.
Art again, is a form that has in it the meaning of life.
2006-08-19 19:17:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Another vote for intent. The dividing line (art/not art) is context. The quality of being art is not something that resides within the actual work.
2006-08-19 21:18:15 · answer #4 · answered by Drew 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it's just on the view of the person looking at an object.And it also depends upon his mood of the person looking at the object.
But as you ask as an art ,one thing might be precious to you ,may not be the same with all other viewers , one thinks it's disgusting and other thinks it's marvellous.
For an art maker it's good to get comments from most of the persons, so that he can deliver wonderful things to the world.
Even though no one can satisfy all the people, he can try to maximise it to the number of people.
2006-08-19 19:23:00 · answer #5 · answered by hemanth k 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What makes art, art is INTENT.
A urinal is just a urinal, but when Marcel Duchamp signs it with a pen, that adds intent and concept to it. It takes on whole new meaning.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4059997.stm
Good question.
2006-08-19 19:39:25 · answer #6 · answered by truthyness 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What makes art, art? A coninuously evolving reaction to human markings.
2006-08-20 01:26:27 · answer #7 · answered by Victor 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
art is whatever you like. I can look at a garbage can and if i think wow that is really cool, then that is art.
2006-08-19 18:57:41 · answer #8 · answered by me 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
something inside of you that stimuli respond to...art is sensory in its nature & can be found everywhere & in everything,depending on ones perception...
its all a point of view.
2006-08-19 19:11:56 · answer #9 · answered by scary visionary 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The intention of the creator.
2006-08-19 19:04:22 · answer #10 · answered by Arrow 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋