Question of the Day

[ayoub]

What does art mean to you?

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Art is all about emotional response...

Comments

[dishapeaches.livejournal.com]

Art is a guy with no arms and no legs, hanging on a wall.


Thank you, thank you...I'll be here all week. Try the veal; two drink minimum.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

LMAO! :D

[bronxelf-ag001.livejournal.com]

After being a professional artist for nine years before I became a designer, what it means is "too much work for not nearly enough money."

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

That's sad, but true...

[katamphigorical.livejournal.com]

Art is a pretentious pandering to the human experience; an anullment of feeling that killed the inspiration beyond the latest craptacular gallery of shite.

I really don't like art. I like the idea of art. But art itself has been so denuded and then layered with mouth-breathers and prissy snobs that it's lost all the mystique and power it once wielded.

That's my opinion and i'm sticking to it.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

:D

[nowsheshines.livejournal.com]

Art is about emotion, feelings, expression. Seeing it makes me feel things. And I use it to express myself when conventional communication won't work.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Yes! :D

[childeofloki.livejournal.com]

Depends on the art.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

I feel there's a common goal to all art :D

[childeofloki.livejournal.com]

Perhaps, but you didn't ask me what I thought the goal was, you asked me what I thought the meaning of art is, to me.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

True... :D

[ccupguy.livejournal.com]

Art is in the eye of the beholder. And I can tell you, sometimes that can really hurt.

See?


:P
ccup

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

LMAO! :D

[avis-noctis.livejournal.com]

Personally?

Insight. If art doesn't offer me insight of some kind, I don't really get anything out of it.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

What insights do you try to put into your own art?

[alainn-mactire.livejournal.com]

Modern art means someone is getting paid far too much money to hurl paint at a wall.

Real art makes my soul smile (real as in Monet, Turner, Waterhouse, Rossetti, Di Vinci...)

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

The classics are truly awesome :D

[evergladesqueen.livejournal.com]

a billion forms of creative expressions.
*hugs*

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Definitely! :D

[sorah.livejournal.com]

Art to me is an expression of one's inner self. Another words, "an emotional response." This goes for the person creating and others visualizing anothers work.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Emotional response is how I define it too :D

[sirenity.livejournal.com]

To me? Oh, everything. =)

You realize I could go on and on about this, yes? *grin* Ok but specifically, to me it means vision, perspective, clarity - certainly not decoration, certainly not just for the eyes.

As an artist, I've always loved the notion that people will say, "Look at the big picture" instead of "look at the big word, the big song, etc."

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

:D

You could go on and on with me anytime :D

After reading this, I though:

Art is describing your universe to others...

[nantosvelta.livejournal.com]

Understanding of life, beauty and perception through someone else's eyes.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Very good definition :D

[tyratae.livejournal.com]

it's an experience of making.

i don't *care* whether somebody else declared an item "art" & thinks it should be worth money. i don't care about the fundamentals of its composition, its materials, or its suitability to the cultural needs of its generation. or, rather, i can care--i've been moved by the symmetry of a perfectly balanced arrangement, i've worshipped at the feet of the rock gods chilled by their cultural acuity, but that's not what makes it art.

art takes place in two places: the creative experience of the creator, and the creative experience of the viewer/listener/receiver making meaning and resonance out of what he/she sees. artifacts don't have it on their own.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Wonderfully put :D

And yes, the art isn't just in what the artist creates, it's also in what the receiver creates in their mind...

[empatia.livejournal.com]

Everything...It is my escape, my expression, my communication...

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

:D

Yes...

[photodiva02.livejournal.com]

I wish it meant as much to me now as three weeks ago... I've kind of lost interest.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

:(

*hugs you*

[suburbiadaze.livejournal.com]

like a good fiction novel? art brings me to tears and makes me giddy at the same time.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Yup... Just like that... :)

[eternalxwhisper.livejournal.com]

Art is an expression of feeling. Someone seeks comfort and joy in their writing while others share their passions and desires in poetry, others do it through art.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Great answer :D