I think that art is anything you want it to be. No, @$%& that. That's a cop out. I don't know what it is, but it isn't the Jonas Brothers or Wayans Brothers movies or Coca-Cola billboards. When something is created more for money than to raise consciousness, it ceases to be art. If it challenges us, wakes us up, reveals possibilities of other realities, or reminds us of what's important, it's art. If it appeals to our mind's sense of divine symmetry and order, or if it VIOLATES that sense so completely that we can only wonder "why did that happen", then it's art. I don't know if art can be made by accident. I think art can be functional, but function and form need to be synergistic and intentional. I'm just gonna say it-- I don't think art can be accidental, but I think artists can use accidents as a way to reach different truths. Like William S. Burroughs, who wrote a bunch of pages of words, cut them up, dropped them in a hat, pasted them back on paper with space between them, and wrote between the words, trying to make it make sense. He was trying to reach the "third mind"-- the creativity that we can only access when we're reacting to the unexpected. They call it the third mind because you can think of something with a partner (in a conversation) that neither of you could have thought alone.
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AuthorI am a high school Digital Design teacher who wants my students to start wrestling with the question: "What is Art?" Archives
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