What is art?
Is it just a depiction,
A depiction of a scene
Or of a person
Painted onto canvas
To show what one can see,
Can see through your eyes.
It can be like a photograph
So immaculately created,
Yes it has been painted,
Skilfully painted,
But is it art?
What is art?
Can a photograph be considered,
Be considered as art.
It is just a depiction,
A depiction of a scene
Or of a person
Printed on paper
To show what one can see,
Can see through your eyes.
It can be like a painting
Showing exactly what was seen,
No errors
It is real.
But is it art?
What is art?
If that photograph is altered
Into a vision that is not real,
Something that is only seen
Within the mind of the person,
Changing the reality
Into a scene within his mind
That cannot exist in reality
So it is not real.
Is it art?
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Great write, clip, and pic Gold.
Yep, I reckon all this is art.
We're all great modern artists in one sense - just leave your bed unmade and enter it as an exhibit in a show! Or make a pile of rubbish!
Thanks Orchi.
So you are saying that a made bed is not art? 😂😂😂
Andy
Well, yes, bed unmade or made, can pass as art in some Shows. I started tidying pile of rubbish in a show. Then I saw it was an exhibit. I was about to put it in the dustbin! lol. I prefer pics like your, or Michael's, and the 'classical' art as in the clip. And scenes of 1066 of course. Are we in the Bayeux Tapestry? Our local Museum has a full size copy of it. Not spotted myself in it yet.
You two have an obsession with that bed. You have mentioned it before. I'm sure Tracey would wonder why two quite mature gentlemen who profess a love of the arts cannot see the greatness of an installation sold for £2.5 million.
Art is very different in every one of us. I appreciate many types of art some of which many look at me and think I am mad, you need to look into art to appreciate it, I looked into that bed and just could not see art there, others did but if we all appreciated the same things life would be boring.
Andy
Oh come on Andy – get off the fence; it must be quite uncomfortable there. I at least hoped for a rant about the two and a half mill.
There’s an argument doing the rounds here (and if it’s here then it is probably elsewhere too) which suggests that in the write up beside a painting there should be more notes relating to the work’s construction. Debate focused on portraits but probably has equal applicability for other media too. For example, your picture might, for some, have been enhanced by the simple statement re photo, perhaps location and had been photoshopped or whatever.
For me, the image is beautiful and that’s all that matters.
"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet"
(there you go – a quote. Mode of communication shamelessly borrowed from another MPS member who shall remain nameless).
No I am sorry Dave no rant from me, to me I look at art to see how it creates emotion within me, I am a member of the Ashmolean in Oxford and there and there are so many artworks there that I stand in front of lost in the world of the artist.
Before I retired in the meeting room of the place I worked there was a print of Mark Rothko's painting 'Orange and Yellow', I thought it was wonderful but so many do not see it https://www.wikiart.org/en/mark-rothko/orange-and-yellow
Thank you for your kind comments on my picture.
Andy
I tips me titfer to you Sir. The Ashmolean eh? Going to cost me ten bob to seek audience with you in future 🙂
Two very different artists, Jackson Pollock and Bridget Riley, among others get me in every time. Difficult to say just why and I'm not about to try.
Thanks for for having the patience to explain your position.
That is what art is, we just do not know why some prices just seem to grab our emotions.
It's OK Dave I will only charge you half a crown.🤪
Andy
Nice to have a rich friend who can afford to be generous.....
its kinda scary too Andy, (forest fire flashbacks)..
ah wait, if its evoking an emotion (even unwanted fear): well then yeah,
this is my interpretation of art!
even without the write..
Art should always raise emotions, it does in me every time I am pulled into it.
Andy
Tricky subject art, modernist theorize that
line, shape, color and scale have expressive
powers of their own and need not represent
anything. Good write Andy.
Yes it is tricky, it is always in the eye of the beholder to realise what they see in an artwork.
Andy
This is a deep question, Andy. I just think that art is in the eye of the beholder. If I write one word, is it a poem?
Very true Fred, my daughter is an artist and we both realise that it is an impossible question to answer.
Andy
Yep. It is your own perception. Art should have NO rules, nor any arbiter of right, wrong best etc.
So very true d a.
Andy
There is no one answer and I don't think it matters. If one must seek a definition then the key word must be interpretation.
Using this definition a photograph that hasn't been manipulated and simply records reality isn't a work of art even though it may have involved an artistic eye in seeking the best view (ie seeking the best composition). But not calling it a work of art makes it no less worthy. Similarly a painting that reflects photorealism, no matter how skillfully painted, isn't but again it is no less worthy. However following this logic Canaletto wasn't an artist - or was he?
The bed was an idea and it was arranged and designed to court publicity and as such was highly successful but did it involve interpretation? Probably not but that isn't the point.
In summary I guess the argument about what constitutes art is both pointless and irrelevant.
Thank you Michael, of course there is no answer about art for me it is the feeling that it brings to me when I see an artwork and I 'look' at art not just see it in passing as many do.
One of the times I went to Croome Court there was an art exhibition by Jilly Oxlade-Arnott in one of the rooms , I was in that room for over an hour looking at each artwork, nearly every other person just walked passed each painting without stopping.
Andy
I would say it is Art in that the angle taken, the timing of the event, the picture itself, the lighting and many more intricate scenarios involved in the Picture you Andy caught for 1 moment in time that ended up posted on here, all to do with your skill set. Absolutely Yes Great Picture & Words to go with. Don
I think art is what holds the viewers attention.
So true Suresh.
Andy
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