What is art?

[aesling]

I have found in earlier discussions about this topic that it is all mainly opinion. But people will stubbornly cling to their own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.

By this logic, you should abandon learning and there will be no sorrow. However, this all assumes that the Real is tempered by impermanence. However, the Real is not an ephemeral concept, it something true we must strive for a glimpse of.

[Vivaldi]

Seeing this —probably being a troll thread— has already been deluged in bullshit, I'll keep it at.


Art is anything created deliberately by humans with the first and foremost purpose being the stimulation of emotion. It's as simple as that really. Being "art" does not presume whether a work is good or not, so most of the debate comes in from deciding whether something is good or shit.

Just thowing this out there, what I saids not an opinion, it's a goddamn fact. The subjective question is never what art is, but what is art. The term it's self is a noun, and a damn objective definition.

[Kai Stromler]

Functionless art is simply tolerated vandalism. We are the vandals.

[Fall_Child42]

Seeing this —probably being a troll thread— has already been deluged in bullshit, I'll keep it at.


Art is anything created deliberately by humans with the first and foremost purpose being the stimulation of emotion. It's as simple as that really. Being "art" does not presume whether a work is good or not, so most of the debate comes in from deciding whether something is good or shit.

Just thowing this out there, what I saids not an opinion, it's a goddamn fact. The subjective question is never what art is, but what is art. The term it's self is a noun, and a damn objective definition.

Actually, trying to determine what art is, can be an extremely subjective quest since, "art" is not a concretely definable term.

[Vivaldi]

Seeing this —probably being a troll thread— has already been deluged in bullshit, I'll keep it at.


Art is anything created deliberately by humans with the first and foremost purpose being the stimulation of emotion. It's as simple as that really. Being "art" does not presume whether a work is good or not, so most of the debate comes in from deciding whether something is good or shit.

Just thowing this out there, what I saids not an opinion, it's a goddamn fact. The subjective question is never what art is, but what is art. The term it's self is a noun, and a damn objective definition.

Actually, trying to determine what art is, can be an extremely subjective quest since, "art" is not a concretely definable term.

Yes it is.

[hasteroth]

art (ärt)

noun

1. human ability to make things; creativity of man as distinguished from the world of nature
2. skill; craftsmanship
3. any specific skill or its application the art of making friends
4. any craft, trade, or profession, or its principles the cobbler's art, the physician's art
5. creative work or its principles; a making or doing of things that display form, beauty, and unusual perception: art includes painting, sculpture, architecture, music, literature, drama, the dance, etc.
6. any branch of creative work, esp. painting, drawing, or work in any other graphic or plastic medium
7. products of creative work; paintings, statues, etc.
8. pictorial and decorative material accompanying the text in a newspaper, magazine, or advertising layout
9.
1. Archaic learning
2. a branch of learning
3. the liberal arts (literature, music, philosophy, etc.) as distinguished from the sciences
10. artful behavior; cunning
11. sly or cunning trick; wile: usually used in pl.

[Castor Troy]

Fart without the f.

[godix]

Art is anything you can trick some putz into thinking is deep, meaningful, and most importantly, worth paying money for.

[Vivaldi]

Okay, because people find playing with semantics so funny, I'll add an addendum.


-Art is anything created deliberately by humans with the first and foremost purpose being the stimulation of emotion though our natural senses, or through conscious thought.


Please tell if you find a loophole, but all that generally means is a need to reword for semantic reasons. The meaning is the same. And art is still an objective term

[Dar]

art (ärt)

noun

1. human ability to make things; creativity of man as distinguished from the world of nature
2. skill; craftsmanship
3. any specific skill or its application the art of making friends
4. any craft, trade, or profession, or its principles the cobbler's art, the physician's art
5. creative work or its principles; a making or doing of things that display form, beauty, and unusual perception: art includes painting, sculpture, architecture, music, literature, drama, the dance, etc.
6. any branch of creative work, esp. painting, drawing, or work in any other graphic or plastic medium
7. products of creative work; paintings, statues, etc.
8. pictorial and decorative material accompanying the text in a newspaper, magazine, or advertising layout
9.
1. Archaic learning
2. a branch of learning
3. the liberal arts (literature, music, philosophy, etc.) as distinguished from the sciences
10. artful behavior; cunning
11. sly or cunning trick; wile: usually used in pl.

Copy/pasta.