How do you define art?

[Ian H]

Artist at work.

 

[Deleted member 49]

What isn't ?

 

[Rusty Nails]

I don't know much about art but I know what I like

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58939715

 

[Xipe Totec]

For me the broadest definition of art is simply an act of creative expression. So street art is proper art, just the same as pictures in a posh gallery.

In fact possibly more so, as many of those pictures in the posh gallery will have been created as products to sell & don't exist for any other reason. Whether or not that stops something being art is probably another discussion!

 

[AndyRM]

Gradients are on point. It's nice work.

 

[winjim]

What is it trying to tell you? What is it telling you?

 

[Xipe Totec]

What is it trying to tell you? What is it telling you?

That the Tories are SCUM!*


*Predictable, obvious & almost certainly futile attempt to energise a potentially interesting discussion which isn't really getting off the ground...

 

[matticus]

Artist at work.
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I'm loving the pole sculpture on the right of the building.

If that isn't art, I am Damien Hirst.

 

[winjim]

That the Tories are SCUM!*


*Predictable, obvious & almost certainly futile attempt to energise a potentially interesting discussion which isn't really getting off the ground...

Well it's just clickbait intended to draw someone in to claiming that it's merely mindless vandalism and thereby provoke an argument.


There we go, I've revealed the elephant in the room, let's all have a fight.

 

[Deleted member 49]

You call that art....anyone could do that !
But you didn't

 

[Salty seadog]

Take a stroll through Hackney Wick.

Some great street art and I believe the completely decorated pub is going to open again.

Art is in the eye of the beholder. I have a mathematical /science type brain. I can see the beauty in a Piet Mondrian or the chaos of a Jackson Pollock.

 

[Salty seadog]

What is it trying to tell you? What is it telling you?

Irrelevant.

 

[winjim]

Irrelevant.

How so?

 

[Deleted member 49]

Take a stroll through Hackney Wick.

Some great street art and I believe the completely decorated pub is going to open again.

Art is in the eye of the beholder. I have a mathematical /science type brain. I can see the beauty in a Piet Mondrian or the chaos of a Jackson Pollock.

I like Pollock....but I love Rothko,could sit for hours and stare.I actually have !

 

[matticus]

Well it's just clickbait intended to draw someone in to claiming that it's merely mindless vandalism and thereby provoke an argument.

There we go, I've revealed the elephant in the room, let's all have a fight.

If you think it's just an elephant ...