the defintion of art and artist? What is art?
No two definitions are the same.
A lot of people play music for the wrong reasons. I never played to get women, though I had my share. I didn't do it for the money, though it pays the bills. I realized early on that I could create something beautiful that would build love within the people who came out to hear it. Music is the best medicine in the world, man.
Conception is the key to art. Why artists create. They have a need to COMMUNICATE!
They're loners, who want in. And the only entrance ticket they've got is their art.
They just believe if they do good enough work, the door will open, they'll be accepted,
they'll find love and happiness.
The motivation is different today. Art is secondary to stardom.
What is art? But if you are willing to put Duchamp into an attention economy rather than a goods economy, let him work in attention, not in stuff, then things look different. Duchamp, as few before him, knew how to catalyze human attention in the most economical way possible. If we are looking for economists of attention, he provides a good place to start, an excellent lesson in efficiency. Musicians Give away product / music to purchase attention. in an information economy, the real scarce commodity will always be human attention and that attracting that attention will be the necessary precondition of social change. And the real source of wealth.
WHAT IS ART?
What is art? We asked a cross-section of people from within the arts world, as well as the wider community, to define art in one sentence. Some came up with a quick quip, others relied on extensive punctuation to offer a more descriptive response. No two definitions were the same.
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- "For success in science or art, a dash of autism is essential."
-The spirit of the dreaming.
- Art is an expression of our culture and the time in which we live - and `great' art has the potential to transcend cultural boundaries.
- Art is anything that requires a maker; it cannot make itself - this is Aristotle's definition in The Nicomachian Ethics, and I think it to be the best.
- Art is the child of imagination and gives life.
- I asked our dog Ruby and she didn't know either ...
- Art may be a painting, sculpture, photograph, symphony, dance or any other creative endeavor that incorporates intellectual rigor, structural excellence, a strong element of beauty and a core of spirituality as well as the capacity to transport the audience to a higher level of being.
- Having an itch you can't scratch.
- Art in its broadest sense - is the compulsion to give creative expression and definition to life (and itself), and to go beyond definition - inscribed by culture and aesthetics; aching for response; illusory and defiant of illusion; liberated by intellect, wit and chance; refined by love.
- Art is something created to affect your feelings and your thoughts - it moves you, excites you, challenges you, inspires you.
- We need art because it turns the shit and chaos of our lives, through a process of sheer alchemy, into beauty, wonder, joy.
- Art is a product of imaginative minds.
- Art has the facility to actually enrich and empower your life and make you happy.
- Art consciously transforms reality and creates a philosophical and emotional exchange between the artist and the viewer.
- Art is the tangible result of our human drive to express inner experience using rhythmic, sensuous or composed effects.
- Life experience distilled through creative expression.
- The whole endeavor of art is about the (aesthetically) beautiful.
Kate Cherry, associate director, Melbourne Theatre Company
- Art is indefinable.
- Looking for something you can't find.
- Art is the greatest gift of God, one that transcends human suffering and brings joy and enlightenment to both creator and its audience.
- Art is the distillation or the exaggeration of life.
- Art is anything defined as such, however good art is about the understanding of distinguishing between things, curiosity and an idea or two.
- A creative expression of oneself done in one's choice of medium.
- Art can take many forms - visual, musical, performing but for me a work of art is something created by the human mind that has the capacity to move me - it has a real aesthetic, emotional and spiritual element
- Art is many different and stimulating things - today art is a wellcut and well occupied pair of trousers.
- Art is never a sentence; it is an improbable miracle soaring above the banality of everyday existence.
- Art is the response of the human mind, heart and spirit to the world, people and ideas around us; it is an expression of our longing for the transcendent, and a participation in the creativity of the creator God, the living Spirit.
- Art is the human expression of the divine beauty and harmony, which resonates in the created world around us.
- It's friends around you, as Ginger (Riley) says, if you look after it, it will look after you.
- Art is constituted by the act of choice.
- Art only becomes art on those rare occasions when both the mind and the senses are simultaneously stimulated.
- Art offers to me a wide range of visual enjoyment and mental stimulation; depending on your taste you are attracted to certain types of art instantly, others you will stop at and wonder what it is all about - this leads to questions and answers which turn your mind to a larger spectrum of appreciation, and last but not least, it has helped me pay the bills!
Margaret Anderson, president, Voluntary Guides, National Gallery of Victoria
- Art for me is living and feeling, responding to a moment - a glance, and something much deeper and more difficult to define but very satisfying.
- Art is the creative expression of thoughts, ideas or emotions, which stimulates the senses or the imagination of the beholder.
- For me the most appropriate definition is as stated in the 1955 edition of The Little Oxford Dictionary: "See `Be'."
- Largely misunderstood; not given the recognition it deserves.
- Art is an integral part of our lives and communicates at all levels ... it is a medium for transmitting ideas ... from the academic and often esoteric analysis of historical works held in the formal environment of the art gallery, to the everyday visual enjoyment of the graphics on the cover of the latest CD or the humble cereal box.
- Impossible to say.
- Art happens and you can't plan it.
- Art is truth and beauty in a jolt of lightning.
Lisa Cameron, senior lecturer, department of economics, University of Melbourne
- Art can be beauty for beauty's sake - it needn't reflect rationality or logic, and so provides immense relief for someone whose working life is dominated by these concrete precepts.
- Here goes: art is the conjunction of image and idea, the meeting place between imagination and creativity, it seeks to amplify (and destabilise) perception; habitually falling outside of rational order, and conceiving of the future whilst playing with the past.
- Art is stimulation of the senses by somebody else's creativity.
- The function of the artist is to describe the world from their own personal point of view, and when you put enough artists' personal points of view together you start to get a sense of the fabric of the time and place it was made, and style and fashion has very little to do with it.
- Art is only finally realised as the maturation of a contract between the maker and the recipient through which the dreams of the former find their resolution in the hope/despair of the later.
- Art is the rubric of human consciousness.
- Art is the most dependable way of giving meaning to life.
- Art evokes a response that takes me away from the humdrum of what I am doing at the time, and lets me see from a new perspective.
- I think art is the opposite of war.
- A refined craft elevated by vision or inspiration.
- For as long as we've been able to hoot, toot, tap bones and make effigies out of bits of clay and other inchoate stuff, art has been integral to our species; the imaginative end of our need to conceptualise.
- Art is fashion 100 years too late.
Are you concerned about the issues between maintaining control of one’s own work and having access to the creative works of others.? Is it possible to imagine a middle ground that can sustain and accommodate both proprietary and public domain needs? What new business models, legal schemes or public policies are needed to achieve such a vision? Copyright vs Public Domain
