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  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    Maybe we could all say that our messy sheds are art? Could be a new excuse for not tidying up anyway :D.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited July 2023
    For anyone thinking the subject worthy of further pondering
    https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/art-definition/ 
    but again, this looks at what art is, not at what it isn’t, which was the subject we started out with here
    😊 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • BluejaywayBluejayway Posts: 392
    I always think that the washed pots arrangement on my draining board is worthy of the Turner prize😂🤣
  • rowlandscastle444rowlandscastle444 Posts: 2,612
    edited July 2023
    Bluejayway said:
    I always think that the washed pots arrangement on my draining board is worthy of the Turner prize😂🤣
    For a start, try taking photos from different angles. You never know what you might start.

    A new design for kitchen wallpaper or flooring?

    Think big!!
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    edited July 2023
    Were you happy with your daughter's bed being surrounded by condoms and lubricants, @rowlandscastle444, because T.Emin's was?
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • BluejaywayBluejayway Posts: 392
    edited July 2023
    @rowlandscastle444 Now you’ve got me thinking …..🙇‍♀️!
  • rowlandscastle444rowlandscastle444 Posts: 2,612
    Bluejayway said:
    @rowlandscastle444 Now you’ve got me thinking …..🙇‍♀️!
    You could even design a set of tiles that forms a picture, such as was done for our bathroom (not our choice, I hasten to add). But for a kitchen!

  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    punkdoc said:
    Were you happy with your daughter's bed being surrounded by condoms and lubricants, @rowlandscastle444, because T.Emin's was?
    She was too young for that,  that’s the mistake I made then,  I could have been famous. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • philippasmith2philippasmith2 Posts: 3,742
    Probably best to just accept that anything is Art if the person creating it deems it to be so ?  Whether you personally consider it to be Art - which would depend on your interpretation of the word - is up to the individual.
    Not much different from a garden ( or a house or anything someone has created) - what one person sees or feels or understands, another may not.  
    I never understood what Emin was trying to say about the unmade bed or whoever did the pile of bricks or the animal submerged in preservative but that was simply because none of those exhibits were of interest to me and I didn't feel it worth my while to try and work out what was behind it.  Others may have seen those exhibits in a completely different light, grasped the meaning behind them and enjoyed seeing them.
    As a keen photographer some 40 years ago and doing my own developing and printing, I still have photos I am pleased with, are technically good, mean something and have been admired by others. Art ?  Who can say ?  
    Interesting discussion tho maybe not Curmudgeonly - that's what I like about this forum - makes you think a bit at times :)  
  • BluejaywayBluejayway Posts: 392
    edited July 2023
    @rowlandscastle444 😂😂👍
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