[Dixielandjazz] ART

[Mike Durham]

"Art is anything humans create" - thank you Steve, I will never look at a 
toothpick in the same way again!

Mike.

>From: Stephen Barbone <barbonestreet at earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: barbonestreet at earthlink.net
>To: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
>Subject: [Dixielandjazz] ART
>Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 16:13:04 -0500
>
>We seem to be making the definition much too complicated. We're using
>modifiers like "good" art, or "bad" art. That Sirs (no women have
>weighed in yet) begs the question.
>
>Check your dictionary as to how the "wordsmiths" define art: The NUMBER
>ONE definition in what is "Universally Recognized as the Premier
>Dictionary of American English" is
>
>ART: 1. "human ability to make things; creativity of man as
>distinguished from the world of nature."
>
>Then 2. skill; craftsmanship;  or 3. any specific skill or its
>application. (The art of making friends) or 4. any craft, trade or
>profession, or its principles (the cobbler's art, the physician's art)
>or 5. creative work or its principles; a making or doing things that
>display form, beauty, and unusual perception: art includes painting,
>sculpture, architecture, music, literature, drama the dance, etc.
>
>Why do we want to make it so complicated? Art, according to its
>definition, is ANYTHING HUMAN'S CREATE, period.
>
>We can have a party with "good" art, "bad" art, "audience" or lack of
>it, "money", or anything else our hearts desire but if it was CREATED by
>humans, it is art.
>
>Like a Ferrari is art and a Yugo is art. The other words we use to
>describe or compare them merely serve to modify the kind of art they are
>in the perception of the speaker.
>
>Various Arts, besides music, painting etc.. include The Art of War, The
>Art of the Deal, The Art of Band Marketing, The Art of Making Love, The
>Art of Obfuscation, The Art of Politics, The Art of Making glass etc.
>Because in its broad sense, "Art denotes merely the ability to make
>something, or to execute a plan". (again by definition in my Dictionary)
>
>Therefore, art critics, by nature, are always spouting "pretentious
>drivel" as some of us on the list are fond of saying.
>
>Cheers,
>Steve Barbone
>
>
>
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