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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
Art only comes alive when the consumer can generate meaning from it; otherwise, it's just "stuff."
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I agree with you up until the point that someone necessarily needs to recognize the work of someone else as 'art.' This hearkens back to another conversation we had here a couple of years ago when it was purported to me that art doesn't exist unless someone other than the artist sees it and calls it 'art.' Not only does that go against my grain emotionally, but it doesn't seem logical. How often are great artists not discovered until after their death? Was their work not 'art' as long as it was holed up in their attic unseen by others?
Perhaps the conflict (for me) is seated in the use of the word 'art' which, as you seem to describe it, is a commodity. Perhaps 'art' and the existence of
what would be art are two different things.
If so, then I personally have very little interest in 'art' and much more interest in that other, unnamed phenomena.
