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Define art.
2005-03-15, 10:29 AM #41
something original created by someone
2005-03-15, 10:32 AM #42
It's all art.

Or, art is communication for those thoughts, concepts, emotions, &c, that can't be adquately expressed through vanilla text or speech. It's art if it succeeds.
2005-03-15, 2:44 PM #43
The reason people think The Gates is artistic is because it's aesthetically pleasing in contrast with the ugly modernist/postmodernist look of architecture and other artificial things from recent times. In some other cultures, they would probably be considered really mundane by most people.

However, I don't know how to define 'art'.
I'm just a little boy.
2005-03-15, 3:48 PM #44
Art:

Anything that one would find intriguing, and beautiful, which is capable of being physically, emotionally, and/or intellectually stimulating, and able to hold one's attention for an extended period of time.
2005-03-15, 5:42 PM #45
Just because art is imitation, it does not mean imitation is art.
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2005-03-15, 6:19 PM #46
Quote:
Originally posted by Master Tonberry
Just because art is imitation, it does not mean imitation is art.


Art of imitation?
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2005-03-18, 7:44 AM #47
I'm just going to say straight up that I can't, and don't pretend to be able to, but I like Ictus' definition. It's sort of in the same vein as my artist's statement, which was basically that I use art to communicate ideas I can't possibly express in words.

Quote:
Originally posted by Ictus
It's all art.

Or, art is communication for those thoughts, concepts, emotions, &c, that can't be adquately expressed through vanilla text or speech. It's art if it succeeds.
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art
2005-03-18, 7:45 AM #48
Quote:
Originally posted by Mr. Stafford
something original created by someone
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2005-03-18, 12:07 PM #49
Heh. Alot of different views.
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2005-03-18, 12:16 PM #50
Quote:
Originally posted by Mr. Stafford
something original created by someone


Isn't that just an idea?
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2005-03-18, 2:05 PM #51
Okay, how about this:

Art is anything created by a person that, when perceived, inspires an interesting sense of another time, place, life or reality.
I'm just a little boy.
2005-03-18, 2:17 PM #52
Wait, that doesn't work. Never mind.
I'm just a little boy.
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