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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Drac: Just to clarify something... (boldface added by me) [quote]Additionally, making an "image? be it a painting, drawing or sculpture for the sole [b]purpose[/b] of making an aesthetic image isn't something I'd call art either. Furthermore, I'd say art has to have meaning, [b]purpose[/b] and most importantly, intent prior to starting the work.[/quote] As you stated, making an image to produce some aesthetic is a purpose. It also has meaning, I think. I'm a bit confused as to what you mean by "intent," though. Do you mean that the artist has to know exactly what he or she wants to end up with before beginning to create the piece? If yes, then are you discounting as art any works that do not end up exactly as they were planned? If no, then how can you discount experimentation? There is most certainly intent in experimentation, it just isn't completely focused from the start. I'm afraid I must also take issue with this: [quote]I'd also say you have to be able to justify how and why you make the artwork as well as the process of making it.[/quote] Now, you know I love you, so don't take this the wrong way, but that is absurd. The artist must justify his or her creation of art? To whom? And who is to judge whether or not this justification is sufficient? Don't tell me that it's the artist him or herself, because any act of a human being is justified in the mind of the person who performs the act, however trivial that justification may seem to others. In other words, I can only logically take your statement to mean that the artist must justify his or her work to others. What it seems to me that you are saying here is (although you didn't use these words) that you don't believe in "art for art's sake." That's cool, because I'm not sure if I believe in such a thing either. But your statements above are Puritanical--art must be beneficial to the spirit for it to have any value as art. No, you didn't say that, but the thinking is the same. I understand where you're coming from, I do. I just think you're treading on some dangerous (in my eyes--it's all subjective) philosophical ground... So that's my rant for the day. ___________________________ Suho: [url=http://www.liminality.org]www.liminality.org[/url] Loading...
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