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art .
1.a. The activity of creating beautiful things. b. Works, as paintings,
poetry, music, etc., resulting from this. 2. arts. The liberal arts. 3.
A craft; skill. 4. Cunning.
What is art? A question
that has always stirred passions of those who believe they know the definition
or receives little attention from others.
I invite you to share
your definition of art. I may post it online.
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at Smatterings 601 12 St.( right off of West Main), Dark Canyon Coffee,
1141 Deadwood Ave., or my cards at Java Junkie on West Main all in Rapid
City, SD.
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Is Submissions |
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in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland. The following is from
the reading group discussion in the back of the book: " The book,
the toy, the food, the painting - each has become my own. Such is
the case of the Vermeer painting, Girl in Hyacinth Blue, as described
by author Susan Vreeland. The painting- immediately claims a space
in each of her owner's hearts and lives, as an intimate relationship
is formed between objet d'art and her possessor. It is the girl, however,
who is master as she becomes the keeper of their secrets, ..."
I loved the book and thought it explored many different descriptions
of "Art Is." CST |
Bill
Flemming of Imagineagency.com
had this to say about "Art Is..." - "Art is not a thing.
It is an experience of a thing. In other words the thing on the wall
is not the art. The experience the artist had while making the thing
and the experience a person has while
looking at the thing is the ART. If no experience happens, no art
happens. In other words, both the artist and the audience participate
in making a "thing" become "art" by engaging themselves
emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually in the process. The difference
between art and craft is similar. The craftsperson is concerned with
the quality of the thing. The artist is involved in the quality of
the experience." BF |
| Don
Frankenfeld of Frankenfeld
Associates Interactive had this to say about "Art Is.."-Art
is a kind of radiation that penetrates and transcends language and
rational thought as if they did not exist. Art registers first at
the level of deeply instinctive, inarticulate emotion, and stimulates
there a personal sense of meaning that is as unique as one's soul.
Ripples of meaning may enter the realm of consciousness, and only
then, from the inside out, are the usual filters encountered, as one
struggles to express the ineffable. |
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