Comments on: Is it art? http://www.artbizblog.com/2007/02/is-it-art.html for the Business of Being an Artist Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:18:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Eve http://www.artbizblog.com/2007/02/is-it-art.html/comment-page-1#comment-18344 Eve Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:28:40 +0000 http://www.artbizblog.com/2007/02/is-it-art.html#comment-18344 It is most definitely art! Art is about the process of creation - highlight on the PROCESS. While it is ultimately part of the plan to have others enjoy the finished artwork, art is still about the idea turning into something bigger. Whether another sole ever lays an eye on it is somewhat irrelevant. Think of all of the amazing pieces of jewelry that Egyptians bury with their dead. We call that art but the intention was never to have the public see those works. They were created with another purpose - which doesn't affect how later generations see them. It is most definitely art! Art is about the process of creation – highlight on the PROCESS. While it is ultimately part of the plan to have others enjoy the finished artwork, art is still about the idea turning into something bigger. Whether another sole ever lays an eye on it is somewhat irrelevant.

Think of all of the amazing pieces of jewelry that Egyptians bury with their dead. We call that art but the intention was never to have the public see those works. They were created with another purpose – which doesn’t affect how later generations see them.

]]> By: Ellen Lindner http://www.artbizblog.com/2007/02/is-it-art.html/comment-page-1#comment-2272 Ellen Lindner Tue, 06 Mar 2007 03:38:26 +0000 http://www.artbizblog.com/2007/02/is-it-art.html#comment-2272 Well, yeah! In my mind, it's the process that identifies it as art. Well, yeah! In my mind, it’s the process that identifies it as art.

]]> By: Susan http://www.artbizblog.com/2007/02/is-it-art.html/comment-page-1#comment-2271 Susan Mon, 05 Mar 2007 21:26:38 +0000 http://www.artbizblog.com/2007/02/is-it-art.html#comment-2271 I believe Merle has pin-pointed what every artist should feel about their work, whatever that might be. An Artist is a creator and the medium is the tool used to create. It can be oil, watercolor, bronze, scrapes of metal, or a variety of objects put together to express something inside the Artist. The finished product comes from within and is first seen by the artist and the Artist decides if it is complete. Therefore, it becomes a piece of art. Yes, I believe that even if the artwork is never seen beyond the creator... it is still ART! I believe Merle has pin-pointed what every artist should feel about their work, whatever that might be. An Artist is a creator and the medium is the tool used to create. It can be oil, watercolor, bronze, scrapes of metal, or a variety of objects put together to express something inside the Artist. The finished product comes from within and is first seen by the artist and the Artist decides if it is complete. Therefore, it becomes a piece of art. Yes, I believe that even if the artwork is never seen beyond the creator… it is still ART!

]]> By: Merle http://www.artbizblog.com/2007/02/is-it-art.html/comment-page-1#comment-2270 Merle Sat, 03 Mar 2007 16:15:13 +0000 http://www.artbizblog.com/2007/02/is-it-art.html#comment-2270 Creativity is art. The art of making love is an example of a creative lover. To draw from within and put forth into this world in the form of leaving good feelings with the receiver is the art of sharing an emotion. To share our personal art in the form of material art or emotional art is a gift only artists can share. Creativity is art. The art of making love is an example of a creative lover. To draw from within and put forth into this world in the form of leaving good feelings with the receiver is the art of sharing an emotion. To share our personal art in the form of material art or emotional art is a gift only artists can share.

]]> By: Sally http://www.artbizblog.com/2007/02/is-it-art.html/comment-page-1#comment-2269 Sally Fri, 02 Mar 2007 04:35:29 +0000 http://www.artbizblog.com/2007/02/is-it-art.html#comment-2269 Surely it depends on what you are creating. I think this could get into the age old agruement of what is art and what is craft. It depends on your viewpoint. Also, we have a blind man coming to demonstrate his acrylics on canvas in a local art club and he says he can feel the differences in the colors! Yet he cannot even see his own art. He knows it is art however. Surely it depends on what you are creating. I think this could get into the age old agruement of what is art and what is craft. It depends on your viewpoint. Also, we have a blind man coming to demonstrate his acrylics on canvas in a local art club and he says he can feel the differences in the colors! Yet he cannot even see his own art. He knows it is art however.

]]> By: lauren http://www.artbizblog.com/2007/02/is-it-art.html/comment-page-1#comment-2268 lauren Thu, 01 Mar 2007 21:45:52 +0000 http://www.artbizblog.com/2007/02/is-it-art.html#comment-2268 Yes I believe it is art. I drew and painted for years before I ever showed my work. The creative process was still very fullfilling, challenging, and I learnt the most important lessons in art while no-one was watching. I played, I failed, I threw things out, I became deeply involved in my painting and my creative processes. If that's not art then I don't know what is. Yes I believe it is art. I drew and painted for years before I ever showed my work. The creative process was still very fullfilling, challenging, and I learnt the most important lessons in art while no-one was watching. I played, I failed, I threw things out, I became deeply involved in my painting and my creative processes. If that’s not art then I don’t know what is.

]]> By: Daniel Sroka http://www.artbizblog.com/2007/02/is-it-art.html/comment-page-1#comment-2267 Daniel Sroka Thu, 01 Mar 2007 17:04:05 +0000 http://www.artbizblog.com/2007/02/is-it-art.html#comment-2267 I think the best and most pure artworks are those small private things you create just for yourself, and then let fall away. The sketch you make on a frosted window pane. The impromptu song you hum while walking the dog. The doodle on a napkin before you throw it away. The “music video” you edit in your head as you listen to your iPod. The one act play you create in your head from an overheard conversation. These are the most meaningful and personal works of art, quietly made, quickly discarded, and never shared. I think the best and most pure artworks are those small private things you create just for yourself, and then let fall away. The sketch you make on a frosted window pane. The impromptu song you hum while walking the dog. The doodle on a napkin before you throw it away. The “music video” you edit in your head as you listen to your iPod. The one act play you create in your head from an overheard conversation. These are the most meaningful and personal works of art, quietly made, quickly discarded, and never shared.

]]> By: David Lloyd Stewart http://www.artbizblog.com/2007/02/is-it-art.html/comment-page-1#comment-2266 David Lloyd Stewart Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:46:58 +0000 http://www.artbizblog.com/2007/02/is-it-art.html#comment-2266 I was going to say "no" - for the simple reason that I consider art to be a form of communication, (on a very high level, but communication nonetheless), and with no one there to communicate to, it becomes just another "thing" ... BUT, many of the others above, I think, have a very good point about the work's transformative effect on the primary viewer, the artist himself. Communication occurs when and as the idea becomes reality on the canvas, and back again to the creator of the work. So I agree - yes, it is still art! Fun question. I was going to say “no” – for the simple reason that I consider art to be a form of communication, (on a very high level, but communication nonetheless), and with no one there to communicate to, it becomes just another “thing” … BUT, many of the others above, I think, have a very good point about the work’s transformative effect on the primary viewer, the artist himself. Communication occurs when and as the idea becomes reality on the canvas, and back again to the creator of the work. So I agree – yes, it is still art! Fun question.

]]> By: Tony Vassallo http://www.artbizblog.com/2007/02/is-it-art.html/comment-page-1#comment-2265 Tony Vassallo Thu, 01 Mar 2007 15:58:53 +0000 http://www.artbizblog.com/2007/02/is-it-art.html#comment-2265 Is it art? I don't think the question should be asked. I'm sure at times fantastic work has been created, then, for some reason destroyed or hidden. How can the question be answered? For me, if and when "art" is seen and the "creator" has to explain to me what it is, then I call it decor, not art. Wow! I can't wait for the reactions to that. Is it art? I don’t think the question should be asked. I’m sure at times fantastic work has been created, then, for some reason destroyed or hidden. How can the question be answered? For me, if and when “art” is seen and the “creator” has to explain to me what it is, then I call it decor, not art. Wow! I can’t wait for the reactions to that.

]]> By: Kareen Ramsey http://www.artbizblog.com/2007/02/is-it-art.html/comment-page-1#comment-2264 Kareen Ramsey Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:55:55 +0000 http://www.artbizblog.com/2007/02/is-it-art.html#comment-2264 Some of the great artists of all time left drawings of art work that was or was not completed, also some unfinished works. Perhaps no one ever saw them during their lifetimes. But, ages later, having been found, they are considered masterpieces and exhibited in the best galleries. As always, art is very subjective. Some of the great artists of all time left drawings of art work that was or was not completed, also some unfinished works. Perhaps no one ever saw them during their lifetimes. But, ages later, having been found, they are considered masterpieces and exhibited in the best galleries. As always, art is very subjective.

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