What is an artist?
posted by Keith at 11:58 AMAccording to Merriam-Webster an artist is, "one who professes and practices an imaginative art". As far as I am concerned, anyone who tries to build art is an artist.
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So much seems to depend on how the object or objects are 'consumed'.
A brick in a wall would never be considered art.
A brick in an art gallery where people look at it and relate in an imaginative way may well be art.
A complex pattern used as wallpaper in a room may not be considered art but, again, put it in a gallery and people will spend more time and effort trying to find meaning and depth.
Art seems to be, at least in part, something that is designated as art after careful consideration about whether it is worthy.
aaahhh....but there is an ART to building a GOOD, sturdy brick wall. Or maybe in the "artistic" arrangement/patterns of different bricks in that wall? :-)
I suppose there's a distiction: all who "create" can be considered "artists" but the for the output of their imagination to be called "art" comes from those who view or perceive that output and the context in which it is presented to them. And in that case we all "know art when we see it" - lol
Leads to an interesting question: Exactly WHY is it that when we perceive certain things visually or aurally that they invoke some visceral feeling of "pleasure"? Methinks it is that more than anything else that qualifies one as truly "human".... sorry, we had a roomie that was a philosphy major in school who asked a lot of questions like this. "Who knows? and hey, pass that this way sometime 2night, you Bogart!" lol
Rick
http://rykk.deviantart.com/gallery/#_browse/digitalart
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/browse.php?user_id=138315
My wife and kids breezed through Tate Modern (contemporary art) in St Ives, Cornwall, UK in about half an hour (or possibly less).
I was still there when they wanted to close and my wife was threatening to go home without me, leaving me to catch the train.
I suspect the wonderful pictures, to the rest of my family, were little better than wallpaper but to me they were sources of fascination and adventure.
Art seems to be very much in the eye of the beholder, even when displayed in a gallery.
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