Can you define what is not an art?

Answer 1

The word 'art' is certainly overused these days; You hear people say the art of this and the art of that all the time which makes your question a very good one, tgpln. Craft is not art. I believe the artist's role in society is to point out things other folks miss. He's the guy in the hiking party that says,"Hey,look at that!" His interpretation of what he sees (or hears) makes others see or hear things differently. If something does that for you it is art. Anything else is not art!

Answer 2

"Art" is a very subjective word, with literally as many definitions are there are people. According to Indian and Western definitions by philosophers, for a work to be considered "art" it must be pleasing in some way to one or more of the five senses (though "pleasing" is also very subjective), create some kind of emotional or intellectual response (or spiritual as well in some cases), have a kind of pattern (called "form" or "chaos as form") that is either obvious or which can be determined through close analysis.
Political, social, religious (dogma), and other topics which people consider to be pretty much "black and white" or "either right or wrong" are not good subjects for art--though they quite often are--because art requires exploration of idea and feeling--whereas an agenda always reduces the artwork to mere propaganda. If you study Soviet Rusia and its history conerning art, music, etc., as well as that of the Third Reich, according to what is acceptable/not acceptable or which is worthy of destroying both the art and the artist for--then you will get a very clear idea of the meaning of "propaganda".
Propaganda is general and can be either slight and either this or that, no concerning, but it is not art, because it is essentially "information used to coerce the public toward a specific, unbendable belief, emotion, or activity". Oppositely, art coaxes, seduces, beckons us to react with every part of our body, mind, imagination, and soul.

Look up "Rasa" on internet and Wikipedia, and then determine what is not on that list to give you an approximation of what is not generally accepted as "art" though it very well might be according to different standards.

Answer 3

I have taken many classes on art and art history and this always comes up...there is no true deffinition of "What is art?". In a way art is what ever people think art is...a good example of this is Jackson Pollock and other painters in the action painting genre. Also look into Marcel DuChamp. If a 3mm smear of feces, "aire de paris" and christ in urine is art. It has almost become that everything is art in one way or another...although there are some pieces that I 100% dont agree with...

Answer 4

This is ridiculous question with even more ridiculous answers!
One person can not define what is art and what it is not. What is a common object to one person, can be art to another. Determining if something is art is completely objective. Any person who tries to tell you what art is is a pompous idiot!

Answer 5

"Art" is some unique expression of the mind or body, which can include visual art, musical art and literary art. A piece of art stops being "art" when the piece is duplicated thousands of times or simply stolen from another. I have trouble with Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans b/c it's an omnipresent piece. However, I realize some people think it's still "art."

Answer 6

everything is artistic in the hands of God. If we can't understand, it won't seize to be an art!

Answer 7

one you create for the sake of art

Answer 8

Anything drawn to scale or performed is not an Art!

Answer 9

Copying other people's creations or mass producing a painting (like thomas kinkade) by using other artists. It's just greed and fraud.

Answer 10

making a fart

a persian poem says: farting is not an art....!