What is the first thing you think of when you think of "art"?

[XtremelyBaneful]

I was watching Daredevil the other day, and art is kind of a theme in the show, not really, but it got me thinking. As a kid, immediately the first thought that comes to my head when I think "art", is paintings. Taking a paintbrush and some special paper, stroking it, and creating art.

But of course, as art is one of the most subjective topics ever, it's been ascribed to many things, including dance, movies, music, and even video games. So I ask,

what do you think?

 

[Guts]

 

[pr0xyt0xin]

Art is concrete emotion. When someone puts something together visually, audibly, sensory, to try to inspire the same feels in you that they have in them, that person is an artist.

 

[Breogan]

First thing I think of is The Spiral -> El Castillo & Altamira -> Epic of Gilgamesh -> Der Ring des Nibelungen -> Kirby's 4th World Comics

In that ordert:

 

[RLAAMJR.]

Me is music.

 

[Unbreakable Lex]

When I hear art I think creation.

 

[KevanG]

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I'm with Data on this one.

 

[Breogan]

I'm with Data on this one.

So, not Dada?

?

 

[KevanG]

Only Data.

 

[Slushy]

Picasso.

 

[Majik1387]

For me almost everything is art, save for a minor few things.

Tracing.

"Simplistic" art. (Think of a string being glued onto a canvas)

Extreme "art" (Urinals/toilets being put on display, sometimes with previous uses)

 

[jmc]

I know what I don't think of - Contemporary art, or as I like to call it, complete and utter literal garbage.

 

[jmc]

For me almost everything is art, save for a minor few things.

Tracing.

"Simplistic" art. (Think of a string being glued onto a canvas)

Extreme "art" (Urinals/toilets being put on display, sometimes with previous uses)

Tracing is used all the time in art circles.

 

[Majik1387]

I don't find it to be art.

 

[jmc]

It's prevalent in a lot of art. It's a tool.

 

[Majik1387]

It's not a tool. It's laziness.

 

[Soapy]

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[jmc]

It's not a tool. It's laziness.

It is a tool. If you're a professional it speeds up the process. You'll find a lot of artists either trace or project images in order to save time. Tracing doesn't mean much if you don't know how to actually paint the image or know how to manipulate it to your tastes. IF you've got a deadline you can't be pissing around spending days doing something by eye.

 

[Majik1387]

It's not a tool. It's a crutch.

 

[jmc]

Do you know who traces or projects images to paint? Drew Struzan, the most famous movie poster artist in the world.

 

[Majik1387]

You can try to validate it as much as you want, it's not art. And Struzan is an overrated tracer with nice posters. Good for him, but he's no artist.

 

[jmc]

How about Normal Rockwell then?

 

[Majik1387]

Norman Rockwell traced a basic photo, and then free-handed from it. That's an art style in itself. When tracers just make a carbon copy and try to pass it off as art? Girl bye.

There's illustrators and there's artists.

 

[jmc]

Pretentious nonsense.

 

[Majik1387]

Not at all.