Comments on: What is art? http://www.alexkerfoot.com/2007/06/26/what-is-art/ We are all gods now Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:49:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Context is everything | Create http://www.alexkerfoot.com/2007/06/26/what-is-art/#comment-83 Context is everything | Create Sat, 26 Jan 2008 09:31:43 +0000 http://www.alexkerfoot.com/2007/06/26/what-is-art/#comment-83 [...] We are all gods now « What is art? Procrastination [...] [...] We are all gods now « What is art? Procrastination [...]

]]> By: Bob http://www.alexkerfoot.com/2007/06/26/what-is-art/#comment-8 Bob Tue, 10 Jul 2007 22:35:37 +0000 http://www.alexkerfoot.com/2007/06/26/what-is-art/#comment-8 This reminds me of something one of my art instructors said (I took a couple drawing classes my senior year in college). When a curator of a museum picks pieces from different artists to put a show together, it is the curator who is, in some sense, the artist. That is, he has a vision of what the show should be like, and he creates it. (So maybe he's a meta-artist). The first piece my instructor ever had in an art show was picked by a curator like this. At first he didn't understand what was so special about that particular piece, but when he went to the show, he saw how it fit in with the other pieces. In general, I have a very broad view of art -- I think if someone creates something with the intention of it being art, then it pretty much is (although it may not be very good art). This reminds me of something one of my art instructors said (I took a couple drawing classes my senior year in college). When a curator of a museum picks pieces from different artists to put a show together, it is the curator who is, in some sense, the artist. That is, he has a vision of what the show should be like, and he creates it. (So maybe he’s a meta-artist). The first piece my instructor ever had in an art show was picked by a curator like this. At first he didn’t understand what was so special about that particular piece, but when he went to the show, he saw how it fit in with the other pieces.

In general, I have a very broad view of art — I think if someone creates something with the intention of it being art, then it pretty much is (although it may not be very good art).

]]> By: voigt » What is art? http://www.alexkerfoot.com/2007/06/26/what-is-art/#comment-7 voigt » What is art? Wed, 27 Jun 2007 17:49:58 +0000 http://www.alexkerfoot.com/2007/06/26/what-is-art/#comment-7 [...] usual, Alex got me [...] [...] usual, Alex got me [...]

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