What isn't art?
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- colin_s1
OK people
Art as we define it now is not how art was defined when what we would consider the classics were modern. However, Art has evolved to being the abstract creative outlet that somehow is representative of our existence.
Since the industrial age where color and suddenly craft were within reach to replicate easier, art got a little more abstract as creatives didn't like being cornered by technology. Limits were pushed and people did not respond well.
We live in an information age now, to which human experience itself is no longer a representative form of art (the way Abramovic may have championed over her career) because everyday people can basically do any and all forms of "art" via some combination of technological convenience.
Artists respond to this by pushing our types of interactions, our sensory responses, to states of experience because it's literally all we have left as humans before AI comes around.
To which art will likely return to the inks of berries on canvas, because we'll all be dead by the robots.
- What isn't art is tough to define now because our age is intellectual and humans don't like having things not spelled out for them visuallycolin_s
- Non retinal art is not art.isleptwithsirenstonight
- no waycolin_s
- docpoz3
Your mother was art last night, Trebek!
- yuekit0
Just as 100 years ago no one would have dreamed that the act of Photoshopping and reprinting the Instagram post of a porn star might be considered art (not that any of that would make sense to them), 100 years from now the concept of what "art" is will probably have evolved into something similarly ridiculous to our eyes.
- doesnotexist0
this thread is art, but mono isn't
- isnt this thread saying why isnt it true?yurimon
- is that what it's doing?doesnotexist
- no, yuri's just still butthurt over one of his stupid threadsscarabin
- ORAZAL1
- hehehehe lolpango
- If you're serious though: http://yalepress.yal…ORAZAL
- Ianbolton0
Haha. I've just read all this post and so far seem more confused about what IS art, rather than what is not.
What about taking photos of sub atomic particles? Is that art? It's only a photo. Maybe eventually we'll all be able to do that at some point? What makes that art or not?
- I mean, where does the art/science crossover take place?Ianbolton
- Eduardo KacORAZAL
- Taking photos of sub atomic particles is not art.ORAZAL
- is it a skill? At what point does a skill not become an art?Ianbolton
- A skil is not an art [sic] by definition, so there is no point at which it doesn't become one.ORAZAL
- Fair point. So when people say the art of science what do they mean? I'm sitting on the fence here.Ianbolton
- A word can have several meanings. I think it's clear to all what kind of art pango was refering to. I hate the expression but he meant "Art with a capital A".ORAZAL
- He is not talking about martial arts or the art of science.ORAZAL
- Fair enough. I think people still tend to get confused with all that, but I know what you mean.Ianbolton
- you don't prove something by proving what it's notdoesnotexist
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- inteliboy0
You could say that about anything. It's just context and semantics.
In theory you could eat a usb cable right now and call it food because it went into your stomach. Or roll a glass along a table and call it music because it made sounds.
Put something like that urinal in a gallery, then yes, you are making a statement, and very much could call it "art". Hell, you may see a urinal in a dumpster next to a discarded wedding dress - in context that could be art to someone who stopped and thought about it, even outside of a gallery.
- ps - the debate about abstract or modern art being real art is boring as fuck. What is interesting about your question is what is NOT art, specifically.inteliboy
- Cuz I'm tired of the question "but is it art?" There's always a heated conversation following that question as demonstrated above lol.pango
- So I tried to rephrase the question attempting to see if I get different answer. It's like figuring out negative space to find positive space. Lolpango
- i like your question. makes you think. as opposed to the boring "what is art?"inteliboy
- Art is very broad and vague. So Im trying to go the opposite extreme. What's absolutely not art. Probably should have phrased it like that.pango
- Perhaps I should call this thread an act of performing art or some sort. To get reaction from people. Just look at how worked up Marychain is. Lolpango
- "What happens when someone question what is/isn't art"pango
- Hey marychain why don't you tell this guy he's wrkng for this post on how it's all about perspective?. It's the same view as mine.monospaced
- marychain0
- why isn't it? it has some sort of artistic expression doesn't it?pango
- hmmm...debatable. But it was created to shill Disney crap....not Artmarychain
- could it be a statement making art? "the dumb population will buy anything from disney"pango
- Endurance Art. How long can i sell my soul before i crack?.pango
- "How much money does it take to make it ok for selling my soul?"pango
- But it's notmarychain
- that is certainly art, and you are free to not like it, but with the right pitch, there's no doubt it is artist createdmonospaced
- Mono....you are sooooo wrong. There are many painters and illustrators...but that does NOT make them artists. If you think Britto's Disney souvenirs are art themarychain
- Then I think we're done here.marychain
- Art has nothing to do with whether I like it or not, please don't give me your adolescent argument.marychain
- yes you just made the same point. "nothing to do with whether I like it or not"pango
- My point is that perhaps the person who painted those does consider them art. Just because it doesn't fall in your category doesn't make it not true.monospaced
- I'm not saying it's good or even art in my book, just that it can be argued.monospaced
- But can you at least not be an insulting dick when trying to discuss this? It's incredibly hypocritical and stubborn of you to just tell people they're wrong.monospaced
- It's also incredibly naive to assume i/we don't have a depth of knowledge and experience on the subject, just like you.monospaced
- Old people tend to think they know more. etc. yurimon is a thousand years old.pango
- Mono...it's not naive of me at all. You've made it painfully clear you have no knowledge about this...you are just spouting very uninformed opinion.marychain
- Wow.monospaced
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