I think anything drawn, painted, printed, sewn, written, or otherwise produced creatively by a person or persons is art. Britney Spears's songs could qualify as art, providing she actually wrote/composed/meant them. If not, maybe they're someone else's art, or maybe they're someone's way of tapping into popular-preteen-female American culture to make a shitload of money. With something like that. it's only art if you intend it to be
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is anything made by human hands not art? there is certainly a technique that is employed in the creation of any artifact. Is the maker of shoes any less an artist than the painter?
i believe the question of the purpose of art is where the most avenue for exploration lies.
i would be hard persuaded to quantify the absence or presence of beauty in an alarm clock as much as a painting, but if all human physical creations are pieces of art what are we making them for? comfort? worship of the diety progress? some abstract sense of domination? are humans a cancer, converting every fragment of this cell earth into as much mixed up foreign material as we can due to our own virus like nature?
when we make things that deliver no practical benefit to our livelyhood, like a doodle or a flower arrangment, what motivates that? do we believe we can discover something more about the world through a entropic trial and error process of bizzare physical contructions?
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is anything made by human hands not art? there is certainly a technique that is employed in the creation of any artifact. Is the maker of shoes any less an artist than the painter?
i believe the question of the purpose of art is where the most avenue for exploration lies.
i would be hard persuaded to quantify the absence or presence of beauty in an alarm clock as much as a painting, but if all human physical creations are pieces of art what are we making them for? comfort? worship of the diety progress? some abstract sense of domination? are humans a cancer, converting every fragment of this cell earth into as much mixed up foreign material as we can due to our own virus like nature?
when we make things that deliver no practical benefit to our livelyhood, like a doodle or a flower arrangment, what motivates that? do we believe we can discover something more about the world through a entropic trial and error process of bizzare physical contructions?
fuck man i'm sorry i quit.
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