ConVal World Arts 2011. This blog was created to provide additional communication opportunities for Putnam and his World Arts students.
ConVal World Arts 2011. This blog was created to provide additional communication opportunities for Putnam and his World Arts students.
14 comments:
Britni thinks.....
Art is an original, imagination expressing ideas or emotions in a tangible form for a purpose or for no purpose
I agree with Britni!
art is something that is created by someone to either express a feeling or get a reaction from someone else.
I always thought that art was the way a person interprets something..
I'm with Mikayla, I think each person has his or her own perception of what makes something art.
I think art is an expression. It is something that is created to show an emotion and to gauge a reaction or connection between the artist and the viewer.
I think art is and expression of ideas that can be interpreted in many ways.
i agree with Hannah. i do think art is an expression. having said that, i think that there are some things that certainly are not art; expression or not. i also think that art as a whole is in the eyes of the beholder. i mean, i know there are some things that are beautiful to one person and totally unappealing to me or someone else.
Drew, I like your statement "get a reaction from someone else". I agree, I think on some level any artist is seeking some sort of response/reaction/connection/understanding..... with someone. And.... one's own self may be included in that. I think similarly to the way some people talk to themselves or write to themselves to reason out a problem or a thought or an idea that some people make visual images to work through a situation and even though it's for yourself you're doing it in order to illicit a response or understanding.
Well put
Art, could be a variety of things. everything from feelings, to sounds, to things you see with your eyes. I agree with Andrew about how its a way someone can express their feelings, but i don't think its necessarily a way to get a reaction from someone. People have hundreds and hundreds of doodles on their school notes, and they do that to let their mind slip away from reality when they're sitting through a dull class; but that's not done so other people could see, even though it is still art. I feel as though art is a way you can sort out your mind by being able to record the ways your mind works, giving you a better understand of yourself and how you can solve other matters that effect you.
I don't think I have a coherent definition for art, but whatever it is, I think it would always be something that exists for its own sake.
A dish already has a function, and is shaped the way it is in order to function. The dish could have designs that don't support its use. That would be art.
I think the same could be applied to something like fishing, cooking, martial arts, etc, if someone gets something more out of it.
But, maybe somebody could point out an example that I didn't think of where something is made for its own sake, but isn't art.
The definition of art is never absolute or finite, but a product of the generation that defines it. Artists that were in practice a hundred years ago would not think today's art is art, but we think it is for the same reasons they would not. I think the meaning behind "art" has just become less obvious. A painting of a stunning mountain range or a sunset is blatantly beautiful, but when the same emotion can be evoked by seemingly random and abstract painting, depending upon how hard you look, is less of a new definition but an addition on the old one.
I see the "definition" of art not as a definition, which does not expressly change, but a sort of dogma for openness to the result of experience.
art should be evocative, even if only for the person who made it. as you never really know what others think or how everyone feels i can never say something is not art.
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