Well, Rawnrr, maybe emotion is a subjective term, it should be it's subjective by nature. Maybe there would be less argument if one simply gave art the intent to affect a viewer-- even if that viewer is merely the creator. Art creates an effect. Provokes an effect?? ['A's and 'E's defeat me on that word, do forgive.] I think art is caused or created by emotion, it can start as doodling but when the artist becomes involved in what they are making, it starts to be art. I've long said I've thought the problem people have with calling something like Poser art is the overly high value we have placed on that word. You're an artist, means you have made it. Never been true. Usually means you're condemned to rice and beans if you're lucky for the rest of your life. There's good art and bad art and everything in between but all of them were satisfying to the artist on the day they made that atrocity--LOL! Medium has always been made to matter and has never ever mattered. People looked down on Photography anything to do with machines always seems anti-art which pertains of the primitive urges. Hmmmm, look in a gallery, enough mammaries usually to satisfy any number of primitive urges-- and that's just the Louvre. If computers can't make art then Yoshitaki Amano isn't an artist and that can't be right. If computers can make art then it's foolish to limit the art made to only the most expensive software or hardware-- goes quite against art's democractic impulses. A great world is one in which everybody makes art and doesn't know it, or care-- they're just doing what they love and what feeds their need for beauty. Give us Bread but Give us Roses too. Even if painted on black velvet. Oh, sometimes the emotion provoked is loathing. It also is not Not Art-- does that make any sense-- if you don't like it. All it means is you don't like it so it isn't your kind of art. You want to call it low art, common art-- there goes that democratic impulse out the window-- or cr@p art. But it does remain in the heart of the person who created it. Having said all that, I think back on some of the pieces in this gallery and others that have struck me as great and they have all moved me emotionally. Some for odd reasons, as places I wish existed, or fearful images that released somethng inside me for good or ill, some for purely propaganda reasons, the people in it were so nice. A few for what modern aestheticians would recognise as the few artistic reasons allowable-- color and line which also provoke emotion, sometimes amazingly powerful emotion. Which is why nudes will never go "out of style." The power of the beauty of the human body is the power of life. Way too much said by me. So far this is a good discussion of art,not the usual tear em down, make em feel small, motivations. I don't think we should live without art, you see. I think we should constantly encourage it cause it is so vulnerable to the artist to show their work. I think seeing something beautiful enhances my day-- hell, even something cute or pretty, brightens the grey ordinary crises of life. Emily