Reply To: Debate: What is art?

Forum Archive Debate: What is art? Reply To: Debate: What is art?

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spikeyxxx
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    Art is not necessarily beautiful and if something is beautiful and required creativity to produce, it is not immediately art, although it can be. There is no easy definition of what art is and sometimes, something that is not considered art at one time, is considered art at another time. Is Wim Delvoye’s ‘Cloaca’ art? (just Google it!) It certainly isn’t beautiful ( and it stinks, literally!).

    I do not think there are two people, that completely agree on what art is, so who is right then? According to you, it can only be one person (at the most). Who is this person that can tell us if something is art or not? And what happens if he/she dies? Then nobody knows if something is art or not?