Is driving an art!
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You're going dangerously close to numptyism on that one! 
Interesting I not sure about driving as I would class it as a skill and therefore more related to a sport I would not class a world class runner as an artist.
However I had a discussion with an art teacher once about the fact that I had pictures of cars on my walls which she thought was sad. I pointed out that as far as I was concerned that cars were forms of art. She scoffed and said I knew nothing about art yada yada. I replied that the beauty in the functionaility and the form of the lines could be seen as no less artistic than a picture or statue and the idea that if art should envoke an emotional reaction that certainly cars can evoke very powerful emotions and therefore were very much a form of art. She agreed
However I had a discussion with an art teacher once about the fact that I had pictures of cars on my walls which she thought was sad. I pointed out that as far as I was concerned that cars were forms of art. She scoffed and said I knew nothing about art yada yada. I replied that the beauty in the functionaility and the form of the lines could be seen as no less artistic than a picture or statue and the idea that if art should envoke an emotional reaction that certainly cars can evoke very powerful emotions and therefore were very much a form of art. She agreed
Im amazed at peoples reactions so far. As true PHers I would have thought you would be the kind of people who see driving as an art form.
Watching someone truly talented at the wheel - say don palmer - holding a car in a four wheel drift whilst negotiating a twisty bit of track is an art. Each tiny adjustment, each slick gear change, each line chose and every minute throttle adjustment is an art form.
However, "Gaz" in his nova SRi racing Graham J away from the lights - laying down as much rubber as possible at the same time - is numptyism.
Watching someone truly talented at the wheel - say don palmer - holding a car in a four wheel drift whilst negotiating a twisty bit of track is an art. Each tiny adjustment, each slick gear change, each line chose and every minute throttle adjustment is an art form.
However, "Gaz" in his nova SRi racing Graham J away from the lights - laying down as much rubber as possible at the same time - is numptyism.
Driving is an art form - there's an intangible element to the skill.. something that no textbook can impart. a 6th sense if you like.. the ability to develop this marks the difference between and instinctive driver and a trier..
The majority of instinctive drivers have a decent car and are able to use it. The majority of triers have a blando-box and drive with the aplomb of a monkey conducting the Philharmonic.
>> Edited by CarZee (moderator) on Saturday 5th April 15:21
The majority of instinctive drivers have a decent car and are able to use it. The majority of triers have a blando-box and drive with the aplomb of a monkey conducting the Philharmonic.
>> Edited by CarZee (moderator) on Saturday 5th April 15:21
I'd usually like to think that "art" is evident in any item, movement, or thought where the "artist" has excelled to another level and leaves the recipient in awe and satisfaction. A job done to the highest level is an art. You can see art in strategy, thoughts, manouvres etc.
Driving can be an art, same way as other skilled acts. I think the dictionary definition pretty much includes activities like driving, martial arts etc as "arts".
Driving can be an art, same way as other skilled acts. I think the dictionary definition pretty much includes activities like driving, martial arts etc as "arts".
Definately an art form, when my pal and I used to blatt around the Highlands on our old Harleys part of the pleasure would be the effect of accelerating, pulling in the clutch, letting the revs drop to the critcal moment the coax the gearshift up with a mighty clunk. Easy to screw up but audible perfection once mastered, lining up for a bend on a bike that weighs as much as a small car, with the optimum speed, revs and on the perfect line to get the footboards showering sparks everywhere.....I could go on
Superflid said: Not sure if driving is an art but Smeagol should have told his art teacher about this
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Wow thanks for that. BTW she was an art teacher not my art teacher (I have this vision you see me as a 15yo) no I'm 34 and still have pictures of cars on the wall (including all my old cars) She was a work coleague.
Driving a car is very much like making love to a beautiful woman.
First you have to approach your entrance, slip in side making yourself comfortable, sometimes additional restraints can be used. You check you have your stick in the right slot, and with your horn jammed on you start her up. You brace yourself, hold on tight and pray you make contact with her twin airbags as soon as possible. But all you can see is her Volvo coming at you at a hundred and twenty miles an hour. "My God!", you think, "now I'm going to eat Volvo!" And then... in you go, with a terrific bang. And finally... it's all over. And you just lay there, with a cracked big end, covered in leaking fuel, waiting for the emergency services to pull you out.
First you have to approach your entrance, slip in side making yourself comfortable, sometimes additional restraints can be used. You check you have your stick in the right slot, and with your horn jammed on you start her up. You brace yourself, hold on tight and pray you make contact with her twin airbags as soon as possible. But all you can see is her Volvo coming at you at a hundred and twenty miles an hour. "My God!", you think, "now I'm going to eat Volvo!" And then... in you go, with a terrific bang. And finally... it's all over. And you just lay there, with a cracked big end, covered in leaking fuel, waiting for the emergency services to pull you out.
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