As I think back to the first day of class, I can't help but wonder if this question is the cause of many famous artists mental issues. Try Googling "Artist's suicides", you get quite the response. About.com has a nice list of suicidal artists, with deaths by daggers, gravity, guns, pills, or even psychotic episodes, and with this it's hard not to question whether or not these people were driven to suicide because they couldn't even put a definition to who they are and what they did.
When given a question that can't exactly be answered it is frustrating, but at the same time, it can be interesting to hear different perspectives of others on the matter. So, for the purpose of this blog dedicated to various forms of art, I again ask the question: What is art?
Unfortunately, this may be a question that even the Googles cant help us with. It's one of those questions like, What is love? A question that even the suavest of tall dark and handsome men cant answer. But why? Why can't we answer a question like what is love? or what is art? The reason is simple: because we cannot put a definitive answer on a question that is based off of opinion.
When I asked Google about the definition of art, I stumbled across this interesting youtube video. Simply titled, "What is Art?", it is a video describing a person's opinion about art, and how he may perceive something as art, but the person next to him might not. In this video, he came up with the simple definition that "art is form of expression, or creativity or both." But then asks the question: what is creativity? Then the infinite loop continues...
With this blog, I hope to look at various things that I find to be artistic, so I can express my personal opinion on what is, or what isn't art. As lowerbunk from the youtube video says, "The only thing that keeps your chair out of an art gallery, is a pedestal"
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