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Art. This is a stretched conclusion about the simple topic of art and how it plagues my mind.
What do you define as "Art"?That is our starter question here. If you asked this same question to your grandparents, as an example, the most possible response is for them to associate the word "Art" to its most "popular" form: Paintings. Visual art. And following suit, they might say something like "Art is paintings and/or portraits."
Or, at least, that is what my grandparents answered me when I did them this same question two years ago. That sentence roamed my mind since that first moment after I heard it. And it motivated me to research and think. Lots of thinking.
First, I do have never labeled painting/drawing as the only form of art. It seems almost like a brute thing to do, in my opinion- There are so many beautiful things to catalogue as "Art". Like musicals, as an example. Yesterday, I watched a youtube video about the musical Les Misérables, and as I listened to the song "Lovely Ladies" and watched the performance...
I couldn't help but say "Oh, this is art."
But what exactly do you define as art? Even if it's theatre. Even if it's music. Even if it's dancing, poetry, literacy, fashion, and a long etc...
Personally, I define art as the purest form of humanity. What is more human than a creation made by human feelings and human actions? Art itself is the purest, most pleasant form of expression to ever exist.
Google's definition of art is "the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power."
Let's take a closer look at that. "Beauty or emotional power." Would you agree with that? I do. Not every piece of art is beautiful to the eye, but I believe that every piece of art is beautiful to the soul. (No, I don't count those shitty "modern art" pieces that appear on my Instagram feed and are only a rectangle of color on a canvas.) About the "emotional power" of a work of art, that is a strong term, but it does relate.
Art in every form can cause feelings to bubble up, and do not try to contradict me.
What do you feel when you see Goya's Black Paintings series? Is it a disturbing tremble in your gut, or an overwhelming hint of melancholia buzzing in the back of your mind?
What do you feel when you listen to Mitski's "Shame"? Do the "clumsy" violin notes make you feel scared or (just like the title of the song indicates) shameful?
Does seeing the performance of Heathers: The Musical's song "Beautiful" make you connect with the teenage tension that Veronica describes while introducing the Heathers?
I might have trailed away from the initial topic and question that made me start this blog, but my final conclusion is the following:
Regardless of its form, shape, color or tone, art is expression and it is purely human. No AI or robot can recreate the depth of the human feelings, and will never manage to do so. Human art is beautiful and the emotional power that it brings to every individual will never be replaced. It is a great proof of our existence and the endless creativity inside our complex minds, and every attempt to change its intentions, meaning or form to make it lose appeal or coherence shall never success. My definition of art is short but firm: Art is humanity.
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p_bush_d
Personally to me, art is something requires passion and creative mind. It shows the time and effort that a person has put into creating something, whether it be; a painting, a sculpture, music, games, etc. Bad or good art is subjective in my opinion, as maybe you do not like the final piece for its design or colours (painting for example), but that doesnt inherintely make it failure.
Basically, i think anything could be art if it has meaning and reflects the passion of the artist.
MonCarnifex
Art is pretty easy to define. Any form of expression that requires to do some sort of "craft" (and by craft I just mean anything that requires for u to actually do something, not like those ai talentless bloodsuckers), but with the point of expressing human emotion or scenario is art.
Now what is good or bad art is... different, and that really is a difficult topic to talk about. I personally just think there's just art. Art exists, and some of it punches me in the gut when I find myself facing it... and some don't do anything.