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What is Art?

5/22/2016

 
My sister sent me this video with the question:  What is art? And what does our art say about us?
https://www.youtube.com/user/schooloflifechannel
So, what is art?  For something I spend a lot of time on, I haven't spent much time defining it.  It's something I love making and enjoy seeing.  My niece loved it because it was one place that had no rules.    Those simple things have been enough.

But when the question is asked, I have to wonder...what is it for?  Is it really just one thing or is it many things to many people?

And all sorts of people have weighed in on it...
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The Betrothed and Eiffel Tower, 1913
Mark Chagall: Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers – and never succeeding.
Ayn Rand: Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist’s metaphysical value-judgments.
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Rust Red Hills
Georgia O'Keeffe: Filling a space in a beautiful way. That's what art means to me.
Robert Frost: To me the thing that art does for life is to clean it – to strip it to form.
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Portrait presumed to be of his jailer
Jacques-Louis David: To give a body and a perfect form to one’s thought, this—and only this—is to be an artist.
Aristotle: The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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With all that being said...what is art?  What is it for to you?
MKSolomon link
5/23/2016 07:17:35 pm

Who did the very last painting? I like it.

esolomon
5/23/2016 09:50:44 pm

I liked that one too, it's by David. The artist's quotes follow their paintings.


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