Art is a universal and omnipresent part of human life. Art appears in an innumerable amount of shapes and forms to us daily, in obvious and subliminal ways. Art is the quintessential example of subjectivity; art’s beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Art is anything from aural to visual stimulation, to expression of one's life and emotion, to explaining to ourselves the meaning of who we are individually and wholly. It is completely dependent upon the individual and their ability to assess what art is to put together what it means to them.
Arguments of technicality and definition can be made, expressions of emotion and soul can appear, and we can be thrust in and out of paradigms and dimensions of the existence and comprehension of art.
However, this means little in the grand scheme of things, as comprehensive and extensive as the definition and understanding of art as a global power is. Human understanding of art as a whole lies within every individual. Within each of us is art, in its own way, for all of us. Each individual builds up the whole image, each person holds a single piece that in turn holds an answer to this stellar question, and it is with every one of us that the answer to the meaning of art can be found for us all, holistically. Art is as ubiquitous as human life: To say that art is without life or that life is without art is paradoxical.
In saying this, I leave you with a simple question: What does art mean to you?
This. This is art.
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Love, death, beauty, misery, luxury.
I see dying people in a picture and first thing that comes in my mind is mostly art.
I see pornography and some times it brings word art into my mind.
I see beatuiful thing/person/object and i think about art.
I see people suffering and i some times think about art.
I see rich people and expensive automobiles, clothing, mansions and money and for me it is art.
Pretty much everything can be art.
My life would be nothing but an empty space in a cold shell if there wasn't the warmth of music to fill it.
[QUOTE=Joazzz;31180856]My life would be nothing but an empty space in a cold shell if there wasn't the warmth of music to fill it.[/QUOTE]
This is art.
Music is all for me, I think art is something that heals your empty soul.
Something that has a personaly appealing character to it to entice emotions in the viewer and express complex emotions by the artist.
Anything dai posts
[QUOTE=Combine 177;31180871]This is art.[/QUOTE]
That's art too.
art rhymes with fart lol
It depends on the kind of art. I usually hate art, but Impressionism is the only kind of art I like. Especially Edgar Degas
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[QUOTE=mbutler2;31181359]I usually hate art[/QUOTE]
How do you even
[QUOTE=Jasun;31181300]art rhymes with fart lol[/QUOTE]
Poetry in motion.
without singing, photography, and acting, I would kill myself.
seriously. I don't think I would have anything to do with my life.
is porn art? cause if it is then I have a massive art collection.
Anything created by the human race not solely intended to aid survival or reproduction.
That doesn't imply I think most of it is worth anything, though.
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I don't know about art, but I know what I like.
[QUOTE=Turnips5;31181946]Anything created by the human race not solely intended to aid survival or reproduction.[/QUOTE]
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"art"
Art is, to me, anything that exists in our material world. Whether it's accidental, deliberate, or natural. The universe itself is the grandest artist of all.
[QUOTE=TH89;31181982][img]http://cdn.zmescience.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/cocaine.jpg[/img]
"art"[/QUOTE]
you could call the synthesis of cocaine art
or could you? cocaine isn't synthesized, it comes from the coca leaf
hmm
art sucks. just a bunch of jackasses trying to make me feel things. the only piece of "art" i'll pay attention to is Twilight fan fiction because there's some pretty good stuff in there i tells ya.
just like rocks on their own aren't art, but a photograph of rocks is
come on TH89, I'm serious. What do you think art is? I want to actually do some discussion.
Artsy girls are the best.
stains of liquids ejaculated on the canvas.
It makes me feel mentally reinvigorated.
If staring at art doesn't provide the needed intellectual sustenance, I just reflect briefly on some classical music.
anything interesting
anything that makes you think
anything you want it to be
Art is whatever you want it to be and whatever you want to be art is art
[QUOTE=Turnips5;31182035]just like rocks on their own aren't art, but a photograph of rocks is
come on TH89, I'm serious. What do you think art is? I want to actually do some discussion.[/QUOTE]
What would I use it for? Something that expresses itself through aesthetic arrangement.
I also don't think the term is particularly useful other than colloquially--if you try to nail down a formal definition of "art" you get a bunch of jerkoffs who think everything that doesn't meet their arbitrary standards "isn't art" versus a bunch of jerkoffs who think that calling their video of them stomping a frog to death "art" confers a degree of respectability on it. I don't like either type of those jerkoffs and I don't think that debate even deserves to be dignified with consideration.
Art is entertainment in the form of beauty
"the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance."
Anything that expresses both beauty and meaning and requires some level of skill to produce.
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