When is art not art and who should be the judge?

Answer 1

hmm.. i guess art is how a person thinks/perceive life, and that is art in itself. (:

Answer 2

I guess that's exactly the point. No one can really judge art expect for the artist him/herself. We all view and perceive things differently. What might be nice for me or artistic may be ugly or offencive to another person. I also believe that each type of art has a time and place. for example you would not put a picture of a naked person in a family room but it would be okay in a library ( home ) or an art room or even a bed room or bath room.

Answer 3

I think anything can be art. It all depends on the view of the person. And nobody has the right to judge. If the person who creates it calls it art, then they see something we may not.

Take graffitti for instance, some of them are just scribbles, but some of them use extrordinary colors, pitches, designs, etc. It is artwork..yet the ones who have to scrub it off, call it graffitti.

Art, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.

Answer 4

The nice part about Art is that it's subjective. Art relies heavily on meaning and is highly subjective. It means that whatever interpretation you get from it can make it artistic.

The reason why some people will get upset when people make offensive icons that are designed to be derogatory or insulting is because it taps into icons that have been prescribed as being bad or negative.

For example, if someone painted a huge wall mural that has this huge picture of Hitler in a noble pose with a Swastika, you'd see a lot of ticked off Jewish people that would be offended and refuse to acknowledge it as art because it's a painful reminder of the Holocaust and how many innocent victims were killed.

Technically, that still qualifies as art because it's a form of expression, but it would get a bad rap. People would rather embrace someone who sucks at art drawing ugly stick figures as art rather than acknowledge a "beautiful" (?) well-illustrated life-like image of Hitler with perfect color, shading, and intricate detail of his moustache.

I work in the Film & Entertainment Industry. There's a lot of artistic films floating around and ways people can express themselves. Art is really more about expression. Whether other people choose to accept your art into their lives and agree with what you deem as being artistic is another story.

The same thing goes for Politics. When it comes to Politics, if you want to crown yourself as Queen of Idaho, nobody's stopping you. Whether anyone else will acknowledge your Claim to Idahoan Royalty is another story. The same thing goes for whatever you claim is art. Whether other people agree that it's art is another story.

Yahoo Answers is the same way when it comes to Intellectual Expression. Someone can go around claiming they're extremely smart and know everything. However, that remains to be seen by the number of Best Answer Ratings they get out of the total number of questions asked.

Even then, you can rig the Best Answers if you could get all your friends to go around giving you +10 Best Answers to make it look like you're smart. People can do the same thing where they can all vote on what is and isn't art in the same fashion.

I once had the opportunity to work with a "supposed" Paul Gauguin Painting that was locked away in a Vault in Scottsdale, Arizona. Because it hadn't been viewed by Sotherby's or acknowledged by Lloyd's of London, its value as art hasn't been verified.

Until the Art Community or an established appraiser such as Sotherby's or Lloyd's of London validates that a painting was indeed made by a famous painter, that painting is worthless. It doesn't matter if it's real. In such case, it didn't matter if it was really painted by Paul Gauguin. Maybe it was. However, since no one could verify it, it was still deemed worthless.

If you pay attention to the Religious Communities, you always see this inflamed debate between Religious Sects and Atheists. They throw insults back and forth about Jesus Christ, Faith, Religion, and the Existence of God.

Jesus Christ would be like a Famous Painting "made by God." Even if you had a real Jesus Christ planted on this Earth who really is the Messiah, it's just like Art. Until an official such as the Religious version of Lloyds of London or a Religious Sotherby's decrees that the individual is indeed a "Jesus Christ Painting," that individual is worthless and won't be acknowledged as the real Christ.

The only way to even remotely prove the authenticity is if you get enough momentum from people who will acknowledge or acclaim that individual as being the real Messiah. That's Religious Art for you.

That's where we come back to the Power of the People and when you get enough people to subscribe to an ideal. Microsoft didn't become Microsoft because it registered it's Business License. It became the powerful company that it is because it made the Intel Processor Chip that was needed in IBM Computers. It branched off and became important in PCs.

The value of Microsoft as a "Corporate Painting" is because people see the value of it and the "Corporate Sotherby's" and "Corporate Lloyds of London" are forced to acknowledge its value due to its popularity.

Many of the famous artists that grace the Museums in Europe are there because of their popularity that swept through that time period influencing the people that belonged to that era. It was noticed by officials and it was marked in history for its influence on other painters and how they chose to do their paintings. That's how you get an Artist's movement.

Imagine if you heralded yourself as an Artist where your trademark was drawing a Ugly Purple Frog in the upper left corner of paintings. Assume people around you laughed and thought it was retarded.

If a whole bunch of artists became inspired and began a "Ugly Purple Frog" Movement where they paint that Purple Frog in the left corner of their artwork, you'll go down in History in the Art World as the "Ugly Purple Frog" Artist.

Whether that should be called art or not remains to be seen, but if people acknowledge it, that's how History in the Art World will be written.

So in regards to your question of what is and isn't art and who should be judge? It's you. It's the people. However, in your own world or sphere of influence, the only person whose opinion should matter is yours.

I especially say this for all the little kids that have crayons drawing little stick figure animals that their parents post on their refrigerators for the family to see.

Maybe to an adult, it won't look like it qualifies as art, but don't tell the little kid that. Let them go on believing that what they're drawing is art because someday that little kid who kept on drawing will turn into a famous painter whose artwork will inspire the world to do something or capture an ideal that will leave a mark on the rest of the world of that generation and future generations.

Answer 5

when it focuses on destruction and not creativity! we should all have the ability as people to tell the difference, so we're the judges
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Answer 6

no one can be the judge of that. what might be ugly to you, I might love. or vis versa.