Re: the "sound" thing....(now: art definition)

["Mark Showalter" <folkstone57@operamail.com>]

Hello,

My question was not what is the latest trend or popular idea of art, but what is art, the thing itself. As far as if there is ONE definition, I think that if there isn't, we're back to just a councel of despair & why try, which was not the purpose of my question. Also, I think as artists it is incumbent of us as artists to have some idea of what it is we are doing & have some i9dea of what it's called. Clearly we are musicians of some sort or other, but we are creating art, just as Baqch did, & Shakespeare, & they guy who created the cave paintings of animals 20,000 years ago. Art may have trends, but art isn't a trend.

 

someone said:
But my original question was: "what is art or a definition of what is or constitutes art"

i'm very late to this, and haven't read all the posts, but saw this, so i will chime in:


there is no ONE definition of "art" or "Art".
art is basically a western european term, that has been in our lexicon for about 500 yrs or so (think Renaissance).
sure you can look up in the dictionary or wiki or encyclopedia for a definition, but the way w/ modern art (anytime from late 1790s to 1850s for start-lots of debate)

is that whatever definition is made for art, a new group of artists goes against this and challenges conventions (this can be applied to anything from impressionists
through dadaists to conceptual art, etc)...

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