frogdot, actually I think it's hard to decide if that canoe is art or not, for one thing it's a 3D object and we can't see half of it at the moment :) I think it might also matter what it is exactly that is painted on it :)

I think you're mixing up "real artists" with "popular artists" :) many real artists can have a hard time selling their work for acceptable money, let alone expensively, but that doesn't make them less of an artist :) Marketability is not an influence on the artistic value of an artwork, it is only of influence on the ammount and type of audience the supposed 'artwork' will receive.

lordstormdragon, Art is indeed a word, but what matters is the connection between the "work" and the "viewer" that the word implies, and/or how it creates emotion and/or makes the viewer contemplate upon the artwork.

Maybe that canoe is art because it makes us wonder; just what is art? if this isn't art why is this canoe in an artgallery? you would think that, because it is in an artgallery some people think it is really art, but then what do they see what we don't? maybe it is the very suggestion of these questions that makes it art, even if only so for the artist who made it.

Message edited on: 01/06/2005 05:11

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