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What is Art?

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What is Art?
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What is Art?
September 1, 2023 at 8:11 am (This post was last modified: September 1, 2023 at 8:16 am by MarcusA.)
Art is art, says nobody. Art is about politics as much as anything. Do you agree or disagree? Shakespeare was a stooge for royalty.
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RE: What is Art?
September 1, 2023 at 8:25 am
Art is emotional self-expression through the act of creating or using creative media(paint, instruments, glue, etc.). I am a supporter of "everyone can make and do art".

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RE: What is Art?
September 1, 2023 at 9:07 am
(September 1, 2023 at 8:11 am)MarcusA Wrote: Art is art, says nobody. Art is about politics as much as anything. Do you agree or disagree? Shakespeare was a stooge for royalty.

Art yoked by politics is no longer art. It has become polemic.

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RE: What is Art?
September 1, 2023 at 9:25 am (This post was last modified: September 1, 2023 at 9:41 am by MarcusA.)
(September 1, 2023 at 9:07 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:
(September 1, 2023 at 8:11 am)MarcusA Wrote: Art is art, says nobody. Art is about politics as much as anything. Do you agree or disagree? Shakespeare was a stooge for royalty.

Art yoked by politics is no longer art. It has become polemic.

All abstraction in art is politically motivated. The Modernists were revolted by the traditional system that could start a world war.
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RE: What is Art?
September 1, 2023 at 9:45 am
(September 1, 2023 at 8:11 am)MarcusA Wrote: Art is art, says nobody. Art is about politics as much as anything. Do you agree or disagree? Shakespeare was a stooge for royalty.

When the art of crafts looms, the craft of art is nowhere to be seen.
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RE: What is Art?
September 1, 2023 at 9:46 am
(September 1, 2023 at 8:25 am)Ten Wrote: Art is emotional self-expression through the act of creating or using creative media(paint, instruments, glue, etc.). I am a supporter of "everyone can make and do art".

Then, the artist is a fool. Don't follow him or her or it.
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RE: What is Art?
September 1, 2023 at 9:50 am (This post was last modified: September 1, 2023 at 9:52 am by MarcusA.)
(September 1, 2023 at 9:45 am)LinuxGal Wrote:
(September 1, 2023 at 8:11 am)MarcusA Wrote: Art is art, says nobody. Art is about politics as much as anything. Do you agree or disagree? Shakespeare was a stooge for royalty.

When the art of crafts looms, the craft of art is nowhere to be seen.

Art is craftsmanship more than anything. When Being in art, we are barely conscious of reality.
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RE: What is Art?
September 1, 2023 at 10:52 am
(September 1, 2023 at 9:25 am)MarcusA Wrote:
(September 1, 2023 at 9:07 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Art yoked by politics is no longer art. It has become polemic.

All abstraction in art is politically motivated. The Modernists were revolted by the traditional system that could start a world war.

So say ye. I'm leery of absolutes, especially when it comes to something so personal as art.

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RE: What is Art?
September 1, 2023 at 10:57 am
His name is Art, and he's yummy.

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"What a little moonlight can do." ~ Billie Holiday
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RE: What is Art?
September 1, 2023 at 10:59 am
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