*Exactly! Fine craftmanship, no doubt.

...and that's the thing that often gets mixed up IMHO. In fact art has nothing to do with skill or even effort. When I was a child I often heard the saying "Kunst kommt von Koennen" - "The term Art comes from Skill". Then I went to school and did my first outdoor painting and decided to paint part of the clouds in a dark purple as to me it looked as if we will get a thunderstorm later. In the end I was not really satisfied when seeing what others painted: Bright blue skies with white clouds, the colors matching exactly what the eyes see. But my teacher comforted me by saying "Kunst kommt von Kuenden" - "The term Art comes from bearing witness".

I hardly would consinder most things I do art because, most of them tell of nothing but beauty, skills and so on. Sometimes I have the feeling that I want to capture something, a mood, a feeling, something I read about... and that's where things get difficult. This is far harder than "just" trying to achieve a result that is close to technical perfect.

A far better example than my attempts on painting is an exhibition we had here a while ago. The artist did nothing but paint canvas on stretcher frames with different shades of blue, yellow, red and green. Then he decorated four empty exhibition rooms each with one color. I had "this feeling" that I often have when it comes to abstract paintings, I felt fooled. Then the lady from the local newspaper came and wrote a large article about how skillful and thoughtful and whatnot this artist is - and she decided to ask himself and so, under his photo, I found the simple sentence: This exhibition is not about painting or even images. I wanted to offer the audience the chance to stay in the rooms and feel the colors, to make the experience of what a color does to them.

And of course a collage can be art. Just think about this famous album cover
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You can do something likewise with Barbie and Ken (and their indestructable smiles) and consider it art because it may make people think.

By following this theory (and of course it's only one theory amongst thousands) Michelangelo's David is not art but finest craftsmanship - if there would not be that callus on the thumb that may want to tell me that David was a thumb-sucker *

I'm not always right, but my mistakes are more interesting!

And I am not strange, I am Limited Edition!

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