Leave It Up To C&H and College To Start a Debate...

[mickeythemousey]

 I suppose this originally started within my college class, History of Western Arts, expanded out when I found the perfect summation in a Calvin and Hobbes strip and was fueled by Nicole's post about the whole time-traveling thing. What can I say? It inspired me to actually post something.

The question is simple really, what is art? The answer

Comments

[minerva_one]

Modern art gets all of the attention it does just for the thought process behind it. I mean, the urinal mickey was talking about in the original post was a big "fuck you" to the art establishment. Duchamp was saying "You can't tell me what makes art" and everyone else agreed with him. But does that make a urinal artwork? It depends on if you agree with the artist or the artwork.

I'm a visual person, but I don't express myself with art. Recent epiphanies regarding my own personal path through life and art has lead me to realize very harsh truths. I'm not a visual artist. I have skillz, yes. I can paint a 40 foot mural, I can draw. But when I sit down to design a show, do you know what the first thing I do is? I write a fucking essay on the show.

I design after writing about it. I don't go home and doodle. I go home and write. I crave writing, so much so that I will stay up all hours to do it.

Which means I probably picked the wrong career. Just because I was "good" at something, did not mean I would be "happy" doing it.

Goodlord I'm rambling. Verbal diarrehea. ttfn . . .

[demonlord_lover]

Or perhaps you need both. There is something to be said from the satisfaction of the written word backed up with visuals, hence the popularity of manga and comics despite the stigma attatched to both. There's nothing wrong with doing both. It the art feeds you writing or vice versa, it seems like you have the best of both worlds. :) I'd trade a leg to be able to create art.