Thread: What is art?
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Old 06-09-2005, 05:16 AM   #5 (permalink)
maleficent
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art/Art is pretty much anything that I don't understand... Especially when I scratch my head and say -- WHY would someone want to do that...it's probably art...

I can go into a museum, look at pretty pictures and all i can see is whether or not I would like it hanging over my sofa... i don't see the artisitic vision and the brush strokes and all the other stuff that I overhear the overdressed pretentious people oooh and aaah at while looking at the picture for 20 minutes... I don't understand it... some of the great works of art were not as good as the stuff I had hanging on the fridge that my young niece had created for me.

I like comics, but because they make me laugh, or entertain me, I don't see the art in them. Stephen Pastis makes me smirk on a regular basis... it's entertainment, not art. If comics are art, then my original definition of anything I don't understand hold true.
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