Definition of an artist

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  • FrankieG
    FrankieG Abingdon MD Posts: 9,100
    backseatLover12 said:

    hedonist said:



    I think FrankieG up there put it best, simply so.


    I agree with FrankieG's definition as well. :)


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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    Aafke said:

    I don't know does "bullshit artist"qualify for you?

    No, it was a dumb joke. I'm generally too honest and definitely to opaque to be a good bullshit artist. Besides which, the arts to me are most essential next to family and friends. Maybe even more so than food, water, shelter and clothing.

    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • backseatLover12
    backseatLover12 Posts: 2,312
    brianlux said:

    the arts to me are most essential next to family and friends. Maybe even more so than food, water, shelter and clothing.

    I like this. image
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,369
    For art to mean something to me it has to make sense. I was amazed when I walked through a Mondrian exhibit, and the way Mondrian put the colors together made a psyche-sense. I mean it's boxes with some colors, but it boggled my mind because "it made sense."

    When I make art I want it to be understood, but I also want that it takes the reader one step closer to understanding the scene or object in a new way. When I write and I look at a scene or a object it a new way it means I'm having fun with language. In that way, part of creating art may include play.

    Like the tree that falls in a forest and no one hears it, if we make art, and no one sees it, can it be art? Yes, of course, but I think engagement makes art more alive. When I post poems on this board those poems ultimately mean most to me as I chose them to best represent the many ways I can see the world.
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  • Aafke
    Aafke Posts: 1,219
    @ Ms. Haiku

    I like your take on this subject. I think it's impossible to be creative without play. While playing with words, music, in theater or with visual materials, you give your own version off a scene or object. I think in every form off art you play with the creation until it feels right, it makes sense to yourself. Without the playing I think you can't have the freedom to create any kind off art.

    I also like your comparison with the falling tree that no one hears. Art becomes more alive with engagement. If you get your work seen, you can get feedback from the viewers, by which you can compare if the thing you tried to show the world is understood by the viewers.
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