diplo
Joined: 18 Dec 2006
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 Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 4:07 am |
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| antitype wrote: |
| Predator Goose wrote: |
| Talbain wrote: |
| Art is art. It has no definition, but you know it when you experience it. |
Then answer me this, if a man finds a sunise to be beautiful and a painting of a sunrise beatiful, which one does he call art?
If you're answer isn't both, then there must be a definition of art. |
Both. Neither? Whatever.
In any case, the experience (of the sunrise and the painting of the sunrise) is at the heart of this, and our reaction to that experience is what might prompt us to describe it as art. |
okay, here is my take on this thing.
simply because something makes you have a sensation of aesthetic beauty does not make it art.
art is a selective abstraction/reworking of reality in the effort of communicating part of our humanity or our view on the world.
many beautiful objects or scenes exist in nature that are aesthetic without being artworks in themselves, like, as said, the sunset. among countless others are dew on trees, mounds of snow, and cumulonimbus clouds.
these are things that we may experience in reality, and that actually have an aesthetic effect, but i would not label them as art because, as i said, art fictionalizes reality. artists consider attributes of reality and recreate them in such a fashion that they make ideas, concepts, impressions discernable. in other words, it is the human being who is doing the selecting - not nature or chance. |
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