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[kalibex]

All Art is, is less linear/more conceptual communication. Therefore, everyone is an artist - or should be.


Museums are just libraries for conceptual utterances that someone considered especially clever, or interesting. (And libraries are museums for linear utterances.)

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[samantha2074.livejournal.com]

I'm too tired to write coherently on this subject, but here are a couple of random thoughts. What is a sonata communicating? Or an abstract painting? Yes, some forms of art are expressing an idea, emotion, whatver, but I would argue that certain works are self-contained (not sure that that's the phrase I'm looking for).

I might also point out that if it weren't useful or relevant on some level to distinguish art from other categories of expression, then we would never have developed the concept of art.

Sometimes I am compelled to play Devil's Advocate.

[kalibex.livejournal.com]

I would argue that certain works are self-contained (not sure that that's the phrase I'm looking for).

Just because we couldn't translate the communique's concept back into 'linear' doesn't mean there wasn't one there.

[antikythera.livejournal.com]

I think you answered your own question... art is separate from other categories of expression because other categories of expression just don't do the same things. Otherwise we'd think of art as just noise, gibbering and drooling of minds that can't use 'real language' to express themselves. (Actually, that sounds like what many people think of comic books, as opposed to 'real' books...)

What do you mean by self-contained, by the way? It sounds like you mean art that doesn't seem to be 'about' anything, that doesn't say anything to you, that just exists in its own little world. A cynical part of me says that an artist who fails to reach the audience, who fails to communicate the idea or the emotion, has failed in the work of art... but then, it's certainly possible for the audience to be closed-minded or unimaginative. I guess both sides have to cooperate-- the audience has to be receptive, and the artist has to have the skill to communicate.