What is art?
When asked the question ‘what is art?’ three years ago, the question stumbled me. Art being such a foundational part of my life it infuriated me that I was unable to come up with an answer that met my standard, public educational standards being what they are. I completed the assignment with some existential bullshit about how art is all that is around us or what made us feel something, but the question lingered in my head. Two years later and I’ve had what some might call a religious experience, life is forever changed and I have a new perspective, I now understand that although thought may vary there are two foundry elements to things made by man, and we have no words to describe them, we have words to describe all the facets of them but not the two words, religion says god and devil, yin and yang, science says negative and positive, most people say bad or good these days and I personally think creative and destructive is the best current way to describe it but there is an overriding purpose behind all things made. Art is the documentation of creativity be that emotional or physical, science is the documentation of what is some scientists being arts and some artists being scientists is merely a result of labelling of a creature with near infinite capabilities to a word within such a finite language. The term a picture speaks a thousand words means more than one would think as all things created serve a purpose and art is a word used to make us think of things man made that are there purely for the sake of sensory exploration be that negative or positive, high or low, good and bad, anything else is merely a tool, a means used by humanity to an end. Art is a word created by humanity to communicate something that three letters can’t hope to convey. Art is what you want it to be as are all things, because semantics are bullshit.
Come to think of it, its not much different now, fuck language ay.
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