What is Art?

take a look to a earlier threat called

'Compared to What?' (was Re: Plato's 'Ion''

it should explain a lot.

This Question has been in my mind for a long time and i can get it right of shake it off my mind. I have people telling me that Art is in the form of Paintings/ sculptures. Others told me that Art is anything that means something. Yet someone insisted that Art don't have to have any meaning at all. What do you think? I'll like to hear fromm you. anything you know is fine for me.

Nor should you ever...

What does this mean? Restriction to paint/sculpture or contained within paint/sculpture?

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Get it?

I think that people who are too concerned with a definition of art aren't real artists, 'art' just happens to be a close approximation of a unknown quality,

This seems as good a point as any to provide an example of some art. Have a look at my web-sit: http://www.psyche.demon.co.uk

One of the most basic aspects of art is that it is practically impossible to define, since it changes from era to era and society to society. Your own attempts to define it may be a way of helping you come to this realization.

My own personal definition, FWIW, is that a work of Art is a phenomenon of indefinite duration and variable physical properties that expresses and embodies ideas, thoughts and/or emotions about life and existence. This work may have an ancillary didactic or political purpose, but the core of a true work of art is in the ideas it

I maintain that you can put people into two somewhat broad categories: the artist and the tourist, ie someone who has a creative and productive relationship with reality, and someone who relies on the former or simply ignores such considerations.

I'm big on the idea that art is something that can be applied to anything, so long as the motivation is active inquisition. I suppose also that activities traditionally thought of as 'art' may not be classified as such if the motivation is absent (ie churning out formulaic pieces).

The wall in my house expresses and embodies the idea of structure, and my room expresses and embodies the idea of containment.

What is art?

One has said it is: the quality of communication.
http://esart.com

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Carol Es, Los Angeles Folk-Pop Artist.

That is interesting, and, clearly, often true. I wonder about abstract and surrealistic art, though. What is being communicted by Margritte, for example? I must say that, having read a biography of him, I felt far more comfortable with his work than I had before - by which I don't mean that I liked it more or less, I still liked it a lot, but I felt I understood it better.

As an experiment, just for fun, why not say what the following two pieces communicate to you:
http://www.psyche.demon.co.uk/abstract1.jpg

art is anything that someone puts money down for and calls 'art'.

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'Quotation: Art washes away from the soul, the dust of everyday life.'