What is art?
a serious question?
being in artschool for a while, I realized that art is whatever someone considers to be art.
>>16479817
Baby don't paint me.
>>16479817
art is a functional replacement to religion
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>>16479817
>Art
>Artifact
>Artisan
Anything intentionally made/built/shaped by a sentient being I guess.
>>16480349
care to elaborate?
>>16479817
Art is used to express/translate imagination and ideas into the real world.
>music
>drawing
>poetry
>writing
>making movies
>>16480349
If that were the case there'd be no art in the bible.
>>16479817
Your mom. Heaven is me pounding her.
>>16480385
>intentionally
Nah see that's 100% debatable
OP art is not well defined. We have a schema of things in our head that we can clearly distinguish as "art", some of them only in particular contexts, and we have things that inspire a feeling in us, usually a sense of awe, that we associate with art and so we are generally prone to calling the things that cause these feelings "art." That is more or less as far as the definition goes.
>>16480661
But those things are art if human crafted arent they?
>>16480661
I don't think you understand the concept of art.
What isn't art?
>>16480624
A couple of very notable philosophers believe that the negatives of religion outweigh the positives but they also agree that it would need to be replaced with something, like when someone gets over an addiction by starting a new one.
While Friedrich Nitzsche mostly kept his commentary about Christianity but made a very interesting point about replacing religion as a whole. He mentioned that art and culture provide many of the positive aspects of religion (community, a sense of belonging, rehabilitation, knowledge, etc. Etc.) But without devoting your life to worshipping a god, "holy crusades" and not eating bacon.
>>16480734
Please excuse the awful grammar.
>>16479817
It's bullshit attached to a convincing argument to look like it's not bullshit.