When I used to make oil paintings, the bigger, more conceptual works were composed based on collages of magazine cuttings... not unlike the techniques used by the more famous American artist, David Salle.

So the figures, their poses... often sub-compositions of elements within the overall composition, were a form of ready-made.

Hence I kind of see a direct lineage between my former painting based artwork and what I'm now starting out doing in Poser.

Dada and surrealist artists of course touted the notion of making art from ready-mades... and the idea of artistic bricolage (DIY)... all sorts of notions around that emanate from those movements I guess.

But then I suppose many of the renaissance period artists, and onwards, tended to borrow hugely from classical compositions, sculpture, etc...

I would argue that what matters, in art, is communicating an idea... and that could be anything... art, as I see it, can be for the sake of telling a story, communicating a more abstract concept or emotion or indeed for the sake of presenting a groundbreaking technique. Or it could be political or religious... etc.

So the question is maybe not so much for me what does constitute art, but rather what doesn't... of course there's plenty that I'd say isn't art... but I'd fine it almost impossible to categorically define how I make that judgement I reckon :unsure: