Forum: Bryce


Subject: What is art?

bandolin opened this issue on Jan 05, 2005 ยท 48 posts


lordstormdragon posted Thu, 06 January 2005 at 1:21 AM

I for one think it's stupid and ridiculous to treat the word, "art" as a separate kind of word. It's entirely unromantic to consider artwork to be anything other than "artwork". If you didn't work at it, it's not artwork. If it doesn't meet the definition of the word, "art", as posted above, then it's not art. Cut and dry. Why the hell should ONE word get special, pseudo-romantic treatment, and not every other word? We'd have a breakdown of language if every word meant something different to every person. Beauty in the eye of the beholder? Yes, of course. But that's a function of BEAUTY, not of artwork. Pumeco, you are interchanging the definitions, as though beauty IS art. Not so. Art being art in the eye of the beholder? Nope. That's just stupid. Either it's artwork or it's not. People who try to redefine words just need to stop typing in English and go write their own languages, like Tolkien's "Quenya" Elvish language. You can't just redefine words whenever it suits you. Words, ALSO by definition, have meaning. If they mean different things to different people, they aren't words, but just sonic vibrations representable by physical characters. Such as the word, "woohoo". Not a word at all. ART is a word. 'Kay, that's dumb, and I'm done typing it!