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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Art is about the communication of ideas 
 it communicates those ideas in many ‘languages’. 

    Imagine if you can that you are someone who has only ever seen words written in English 
 you do not understand any other forms of writing. 

    You enjoy poetry 
 you love reading Wordsworth’s ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’. 

    If you saw it written in Japanese, or Greek or ancient Aramaic would you enjoy it?  Would you understand the meaning?  Would you even know it was a poem? It is still essentially saying the same thing 
 but you only appreciate it when it’s in a language you’re familiar with. 

    Art has more than one way of communicating an idea, and if someone is interested in those ways of communicating they will discuss them with other interested folks, read about them, study them, as you would with any other academic subject. 

    However a lot of people seem to think that if someone has made something they don’t understand then that someone is attempting to pull the wool over their eyes, exploit them and rook them. Why can folk not accept that the languages of art are not just about  them being able to recognise something?

    It’s just that there’s more to art than meets the eye 😉
 but they’re not sufficiently interested in it to study it. 



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





  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    Dovefromabove said:

    If you saw it written in Japanese, or Greek or ancient Aramaic would you enjoy it?  Would you understand the meaning?  Would you even know it was a poem? It is still essentially saying the same thing 
 but you only appreciate it when it’s in a language you’re familiar with. 
    That is an excellent analogy. 
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    That's it in a nutshell - in my opinion😉
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I think it's a bit creepy
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Alan Clark2 in LiverpoolAlan Clark2 in Liverpool Posts: 2,190
    steveTu said:
    Who decides if it's '...beautiful or interesting...'? An expert or you?



    The viewer decides. If some people find it beautiful or interesting then it is art. If you do not then it is still art, just art that you personally do not like.
  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904
    I stepped in the cats' water bowl and filled my slipper! My sock is now on the radiator. My slipper is in the airing cupboard and I'm back in bed with a cat.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    B3 said:
    I think it's a bit creepy
    A bit creepy is my aesthetic. :)

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    wild edges said:
    B3 said:
    I think it's a bit creepy
    A bit creepy is my aesthetic. :)

    but is it art?

    Devon.
  • BluejaywayBluejayway Posts: 392
    @Hostafan1 on the basis that it's recognisable and not everybody could make one, then yes  it is :D
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