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"Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items (often with symbolic significance) in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses
by pilgrim689 15y ago
"Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items (often with symbolic significance) in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect" - Wikipedia.
By definition, the shit in a can is also art.
- Dylan16807 15y agoAs is the pizza I had last week. That's not a good definition.
- Fargren 15y agoWhy not? Culinary art is art. If a crappy painting can be concidered badly made art, your pizza surely can be concidered badly made culinary art, at the very least. I personally think that anything that was made with intention can be qualified as art; the only things that don't have any artistic merit are thos that are made completely by accident or hapenstance.
- Dylan16807 15y agoThat just brings us back to jey's comment. If everything counts as art then the term 'art' has been stripped of meaning and now we need a new term for what used to be called 'art'. It's a waste of time. There is a world of difference between claiming that something fits the common definition of art and claiming that we need to use an extremely expansive definition of art. I thought the argument here was about the former. If it's about the later then I'll not fight; I'll just note that we're not even discussing the piece and bow out.
- pilgrim689 15y agoBy definition, your pizza is very low-grade art. It doesn't have any symbolic significance, it affects only 1 of "senses, emotions, intellect". Otherwise, it fits. Why does it have to be "art OR not art"? Can't it be a spectrum? Like love? Or beauty? Or any other subjective concept you can think of?
- Dylan16807 15y agoBecause when people say that something is art, there is an implied "vs. not art". Otherwise it's a misleading tautology. Ex. Grey is a color but that doesn't make it a color tv.