What in your own personal opinion would you describe as art?
(Like Chapman Brothers, Picasso)
Thanx
2007-04-17 07:13:19 · 24 answers · asked by bex 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Other - Visual Arts
Now that's a tricky one.
Recently while travelling by train into London Bridge, I saw some grafiti alongside the track which read 'Art is not a Crime'..
Okay, I vote for that.
Is a pile of daily re-arranged stones and small boulders in Tate Modern real art? You see in Japan it would be considered art but only if the stones had been raked with a heavy wooden rake. So maybe it does not come into this 'real Japanese Art' category, so it's just a bunch of stones then. Rather like going to Brighton and staring at the stones on the beach for an hour and shouting, Art is a beach.
Like beauty, I think art must be in the eye of the beholder. Maybe we'll just have to settle for that.
One thing I do now is that we must not interfere with the advance of art, if that is the right word. We must allow a total and free expression to continue to develop. Why? Because if we place restrictions on 'art' we either end up being like the Nazis who decide what 'art is' or we become like the Ancient Egyptians who seem to have painted the same thing for about 3,000 years.
2007-04-17 07:44:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Art is any prepared experience, whether a painting, sculpture, performance, piece of writing or music that is a creative expression of the artist that serves to communicate on a deeper and more subtle level than standard human discourse. It may engender feelings or thought, but evokes some reaction on the part of the one experiencing the art.
The question is not "is it art" but "is it good art, bad art or mediocre art," which are, of course subjective judgements that need not carry any weight.
The beauty of it is even if the art is generally considered to be bad art, it is still art and is still a valid expression of the artist's personality or vision.
2007-04-17 07:20:22 · answer #2 · answered by Bob the Builder 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yikes. One person's art is another person's rubbish - or hamburger, if you consider some of the work made by Damian Hirst.
I like the minds that think of really weird stuff - like the notion of giving a street lamp an artificial intelligence so it reacts to human interaction - but I also like the aesthetic intelligence that creates beautiful images like the photographs of Nan Goldin, the sculpture of Rodin, paintings by Chagall, Monet, Van Gogh, etc.
It's 'fed' to us from a very young age that art is about beauty and expression, but it's the shock value just as much as the beauty in a thing that causes a reaction - as Manet knew when he painted Olympia, which to our eyes seems completely innocent, but in the day caused an uproar.
I like anything that challenges me, engages me.
2007-04-17 07:54:05 · answer #3 · answered by Orla C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Art is a stimulation of the mind, evoked by colours to enhance the mood of the beholder. You can walk along any city street and pass a multitude of dazzling displays all vying for your attention. Turn around and look at the sunset-NOW that will catch your mood!
2007-04-17 07:28:12 · answer #4 · answered by Old Man of Coniston!. 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Art is subjective; everyone will choose something different. Real art to me are things created by nature: a perfect flower, a hummingbird, the sunrise/sunset, etc. Art and beauty is in everything, we just have to be open it seeing it. ♥
2007-04-17 07:22:19 · answer #5 · answered by Enchanted 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Art is in the eye of the individual, Thats just as well it would be sad if we all liked the same thing.
2007-04-17 07:51:09 · answer #6 · answered by Sunny Day 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Geisha is said to be a living work of art
2007-04-17 07:19:57 · answer #7 · answered by goldilocks797 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Beautiful Islamic calligraphy, including zoomorphic calligraphy that you can see on this website:
http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2006/06/zoomorphic-calligraphy.html
I also agree with enchanted fairy that art that is nature is true art. Nothing can replicate the beauty of what God has created.
2007-04-17 07:23:09 · answer #8 · answered by ♥zene purrs♥ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You should ask your instructor. But, to me it sounds like you are supposed to pick a Mexican artist and describe what kind of work they do and how they do it. If you choose someone popular like Frida Kahlo or Diego Rivera this should be very easy. There is lots of information online.
2016-05-17 09:10:21 · answer #9 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the human body is one of the most marvolous pieces of art in my eyes. also, picasso has an amazing sense of art.
2007-04-17 07:17:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋