What is Art?
Some things we shouldn’t take too seriously. Other things we can’t take seriously enough.
Thanks to Edward Kinnally for sharing this funny little video on the eternal question of “What is Art?” I hope it sheds some light on this perplexing subject and helps start your week off right.
Have Some insight into what art is? Let’s hear it.
Nate
Thanks Nate. If anyone liked that video, I have some more selected shorts on my website at http://www.pixelatedpalette.com/artvideos.html. Most of them are very creative and unusual.
Thanks Ed and Nate –
Now that we’ve got that out of the way – we have to get on with creating art!
Walter
That must have taken a lot of effort to produce this. But the opening statement, “Art is whatever you create, which moves someone,” seems very precise. Course that gets me to thinking that even some pieces of art that I have found disturbing or unpleasant, must still be art.
It is a great video Ed! Thanks for sharing.
Walter, this brings up an interesting idea. What came first, the definition of art, or the creation of art? It would seem that someone first created art, then it was necessary to define what that creations was. Good point Walter!
Rich you bring up a great point too. Is art only defined by that which we enjoy? I often hear people complaining about something being deemed art, that they wholeheartedly disagree as being art. Thus, their definition of art is only what they enjoy, not what they dont.
Is that too limiting?
I always subscribed to the belief that art only required 3 things – a time, a place, and an audience.
but what about a medium Travis? Doesn’t art by nature require an expression? This would then be 4 things.
And also, Is it possible to be your own audience?
I think I actually messed that up.
Art requires a moment in time, an event, and an audience.
Medium is included in the event part, and yes you can be your own audience. Travis throwing a cat at Nate = art.
Hi,
I’m new to imagekind and i thought i might join in, if that’s ok?
I have been working on something new for over the past ten years, it’s taken a long time to “get it right” but at last i’ve finished what i set out to do all those years ago.It very difficult to put my art form into a category and also will it be seen as serious art?
I do think it’s what people see in each piece of art, what ‘feeling’ a piece of art gives each person.I have to say i love all types of art.
Hi Michael, great to have you join and glad to see you on Imagekind.
I look forward to seeing what it is you have been working on for 10 years.
Categorizing art is an interesting circumstance. Whether your art is “serious” or not, that might be something only you can answer. I have always found the idea of “serious art” perplexing.
Nate