Good question with a pretty ambiguous answer for anyone that’d try to answer.
For me it’s a combination of skill, intention, and impact. Like a shaky handed sharpie tag on a bus stop isn’t much of anything, but when it says, “kill your local heroin dealer” that’s impactful. The shaky lines start to show the styling they had intended but can’t capture anymore. I’d call that art even though it was painted over a week later.
For me skill has nothing to do with it (within reason I guess), it may probably just produce better or worse art.
Impact, that’s the same thing, I shouldn’t have to care about how others perceive my art, should I?
So I guess for me the intentent is the thing, but it must be that, real intent. If my intent is to express my horrors over heroin dealers, I cant just paint a box in blue and then “explain” myself out of it.
Now if an ex heroin addict paints blue boxes because he lived in blue boxes for years, then that’s probably a real expression though and thus art. And I bet he wouldn’t feel the need to explain even if he can.
I’m not sure I’m very clear here, but intent it is I think, so hard to prove.
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Good question with a pretty ambiguous answer for anyone that’d try to answer.
For me it’s a combination of skill, intention, and impact. Like a shaky handed sharpie tag on a bus stop isn’t much of anything, but when it says, “kill your local heroin dealer” that’s impactful. The shaky lines start to show the styling they had intended but can’t capture anymore. I’d call that art even though it was painted over a week later.
Intetesting.
For me skill has nothing to do with it (within reason I guess), it may probably just produce better or worse art.
Impact, that’s the same thing, I shouldn’t have to care about how others perceive my art, should I?
So I guess for me the intentent is the thing, but it must be that, real intent. If my intent is to express my horrors over heroin dealers, I cant just paint a box in blue and then “explain” myself out of it.
Now if an ex heroin addict paints blue boxes because he lived in blue boxes for years, then that’s probably a real expression though and thus art. And I bet he wouldn’t feel the need to explain even if he can.
I’m not sure I’m very clear here, but intent it is I think, so hard to prove.