What is art to you?

[PlywoodPascal]

Shermanator said:

PlywoodPascal said:

I think this doesn’t make much sense really….
You can see how ridiculous it is as a position if you transfer it to other forms of art…

A play that I don’t like isn’t theatre
Music I dislike is not music

Etc etc

A play is still a play, whether I like it or not. Whether something is a play is not subjective. Same with another poster regarding ugly houses. What art (in the sense of sculptures, paintings, doodles etc) is, is subjective. I admit I had forgotten to take into consideration that "the arts (acting etc)" are all art and was only thinking (and this asking) about the sort of thing you would see in a gallery.

So let’s say, in a gallery, you see two paintings next to one another. One you like, one you don’t. Obviously, the one you like is art, that makes sense, it’s in a gallery, after all. What is the thing you don’t like doing in a gallery? What is it?

[Regbuser]

[thepritch]

Regbuser said:

Thanks, but it’s a bit personal to post. I’d go and see a doctor today if I were you!

[Regbuser]

It was a bugger to get the stain out of the rug !

[Lotobear]

I recall once admiring a matched pair of very nice art pottery vases in an antique shop - very simply and organic forms.

The dealer commented when I asked about the price (which was reasonable) "but the space between them comes absolutely free".

I'm sure it's a line he often trotted out but it was quite clever and he was right - it's often the things we don't immediately 'see' that is the art.

[thebraketester]

Jim H said:

Hmmmmm?

Gilles banging wheels with Rene - Dijon ‘79.

Glorious.

Captured exactly by Arthur Benjamins

Or Gilles with a bit of puncture heading back to the pits at speed.

The crowd in are looking at one thing.

Photos do not constitute art IMO…

[thepritch]

thebraketester said:

Photos do not constitute art IMO…

They do for me. If there is an element of narrative or self expression it is absolutely art.

A good friend of mine will imagine an image which will have a lot of thought and a narrative behind it. He will then set about creating that image he has in mind. In one example that involved hiring a dancer, hiring a studio space, lighting it, taking it, and do all manner of post processing and then spend days printing it.

I don’t believe lots of effort = art, but he had a vision, and set about expressing it, but used a camera.

In my world, that is art.

[Shermanator]

PlywoodPascal said:

So let’s say, in a gallery, you see two paintings next to one another. One you like, one you don’t. Obviously, the one you like is art, that makes sense, it’s in a gallery, after all. What is the thing you don’t like doing in a gallery? What is it?

I'm not saying it isn't art (full stop). I'm saying the one I don't like isn't art TO ME. Someone else might consider it art, hence it being in the gallery.