Ghost Lightning wrote...
On the art argument. I'm personally of the belief that the creations of all "artistic" mediums (be it motion pictures, animation, written word, sculpted/painted/drawn art, etc.) can, and should, be considered art.
As to the dictionary definition of art. Webster defines art as anything created using skill AND imagination. By that definition almost anything can be called art, and who's to say that it isn't? I mean, even studying the art history of every culture ever to exist won't give you an answer as to "what art is" because the very first person ever to define art was doing so based on their own subjective reasoning. So in truth, everyone that bases their perception of art on that sort of definition is just agreeing with someone else's purely subjective opinion and only applying any expression of worth onto it because of the idea that "This opinion is must be right because it's really really old."
I mean, if the first thing to be called art had been in the form of say, the spoken word, I'm sure the masses would then deject the opinion that visual art (what we in our society consider the "purest" form of art) is as true an artistic medium. But because somewhere along the line the word art was connected to visual pieces such as paintings and sculptures, people find it hard to allow much else to be classified as such, even though the word itself does not discriminate its meaning based on medium.
/rant
I appreciate the thought gone into this. However, I'd say something about my disagreement in two more striking points.
1. motion pictures, tv shows and written word aren't considered art. Widely. As is seen from art galleries and from the output of people who call themselves and are recognized as artists.
2. Terms don't work that way. They always work in some history and some context. If you're looking for or think I or any theorist were looking for a universal definition out of time and space, well, I should disappoint you. People are well aware that they talk of terms that were created and used by people/perspectives.
Perspectivism does not however lead to subjectivism. Objectiveness does not presuppose that there be no subjective.
I like to see it all in "degrees" of value. Objectiveness has a "degree" to it, and it can be thought of as the sum of seen/recorded use in context (as in - how many people how many times and what people at that have called a movie art vs other uses - you'll notice no engaged-in-something-related-to-art-people go out of a movie theater seriously considering a framed narrative art as such).
In short about the objective - the more info is accounted for the most relevant way, the more objective the view is. As to what's relevant, there can be some debate. But nothing "time-and-space" profound really.
Modifié par eroeru, 13 février 2013 - 11:36 .