What is Art?

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Anyone? What is your definition of art? Your very own personal view...
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According to the dictionary:

The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colors, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the sense of beauty, specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium.

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
As music is the space between beats, art is the space between strokes. The rhythm of light and dark played in sequence across a canvas / screen. This is only one type of art.
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Self-expression. Visually, orally, written, and/or musically.

But that's me. I more or less tend to fall back on "I may not know what's art, but I know what I like."

I would be hard pressed to call 'myself' an artist. I usually use music as a medium, but since my spinal fusion I have been unable to sing, so I stopped playing and recording. Unfortunately, that's why you all have been subjected to my postings. I've kind of fallen back on 'visual' art, which I liked but never developed before I got into music. Now if I could just figure out how to make a WB....
Artist
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* n. - humanistic discipline, humanities, liberal arts, arts -- (studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills); "the college of arts and sciences")
* n. - art, fine art -- (the products of human creativity; works of art collectively; "an art exhibition"; "a fine collection of art")
* n. - art, artistic creation, artistic production -- (the creation of beautiful or significant things; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully")
* n. - art, artistry, prowess -- (a superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation; "the art of conversation"; "it's quite an art")
* n. - artwork, art, graphics, nontextual matter -- (photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication; "the publisher was responsible for all the artwork in the book")
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
short answer: anything I like
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
short answer: anything I like


If you don't like it, does it cease to be art?
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
* n. - art, artistic creation, artistic production -- (the creation of beautiful or significant things;

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
"I may not know what's art, but I know what I like."
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
My definition: (Lantecsters)
Anything that elicits an positive emotional response via one of the senses.......

See: Visual art is what we have here.
Hear: Audio art is music vocal and instrumental and can be staged or produced sound, such as a setting which could have wind chimes and a water feature etc.
Touch: Little tougher to define. Textures is one way. Acupuncture and massage would possibly qualify.
Taste: At one time my favorite form. My wife is a master artisan. Diabetes runined it for me.
Smell: Like touch it's hard to say that's art, but when someone does it, you know it. The easiest thing to point at is perfume. I suppose those that create them could qualify.
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
My Own Definition?
For Me Art Is The Outcome Of One's Most Inner Creative Feelings, All Of Us Have Creativity Inside Us, Most Of The Time We Don't Even Realize It, Some Of Us Cook, Build, Sing, Or Just Communicating With Someone Is An Art,...
Art Is Beauty,...
Art Is Everything,.....
We Are, Art........
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Art is what I create on my spare time
Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
art is any type of personal expression
Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
If you don't like it, does it cease to be art?


Good point
Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top
art is any type of personal expression


So when a guy flips me off on the way home, it's art? I know what you are saying, HG, but there should be a higher standard on it, in my opinion. I guess I am not wise enough to know what that standard is, though. If art is really that subjective than anything can be art, depending on how it is viewed and what went into its creation. Or does that even matter?
Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Art is existentialist....if you don't 'like it'...then it likely fails as expression...or communicating an 'idea', so is therefore not 'art'.

To you.

Art requires 2 things....the 'object' and at least one 'observer' [audience].

If it's audience fails to appreciate it then it's only art in the mind of the author....

Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top
If it's audience fails to appreciate it then it's only art in the mind of the author....


Meaning the bird waving at me may very well be "art"
Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Is this a test?.....Will I be graded if I answer honestly?


No, a discussion.
Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top
OK then……Art is Life…….Every breath, Every tear, Everything we LOVE…….and Hate…and everything we create………IS ART.
Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top
art is any thing that you may see that invokes an emotional state that was not previously realized until that moment ..
Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Art appreciation-- an oldie:



Expose yourself to art - by M Ryerson
Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top
art is takeing something and makeing it something it is not.
like takeing words and arangeing them into a poem or takeing diferent colors and makeing them look like a sunset or the notes of a scale becomeing musical melody. when you can do this with out a set of plans, instructions or a guide you have become an artist.
Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top
truely art is a personal opinion..... everybody will see things differently ... one mans trash is another mans art
Reply #24 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Art is an expression of thought, feeling or experience that can invoke or be invoked and exchanged between beings with awareness of self.