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What is art?

Is art hard work and years and years of planning just to put some rocks in a perfect circle? Or is it time and patience to get the picturesque details down?
Is an artist perfect at what they do or someone who loves what they do?
Art comes in more forms than somebody gluing a trashcan to a piece of cardboard or a dancer that can show what head over heels literally means.
Is art just how we perceive different things individually? Does one have to be able to style hair, do ceramics, play the violin, master oils and charcoal, cook, and be a professional at ballet to be called an artist? Or do they have to be a mad genius that nobody quite understands or appreciates until half a century later?

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Solid offline Verified User (11 months) Long Term User Shouts: 5 #
An Unknown Location | 10 months, 4 weeks ago (4 minutes after post)

Art is creativity expressed.

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apbren offline Verified User (10 months, 4 weeks) Long Term User Shouts: 2 #
An Unknown Location | 10 months, 4 weeks ago (8 minutes after post)

You answered all your own questions, didn’t you? I don’t know, I’m going for my degree in Art History and we wind up in these conversations all the time.

My opinion, as soon as someone claims they’ve created art, they have. It doesn’t mean it is good art, but it is art.

I could go on about this forever. There are a lot of stories that will make you think about this question. Research Whistler and Duchamp.

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YouWantReal? offline Verified User (2 years, 1 month) Long Term User Shouts: 0 #
An Unknown Location | 10 months, 4 weeks ago (12 minutes after post)

I’d like to know everyone’s different opinion.

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*Dougie* offline Verified User (1 year, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Unknown Location | 10 months, 4 weeks ago (30 minutes after post)

Both I think ;)
There are no hard and fast rules with art.
It seems to be some sort of creative expression.

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