If art is just whatever you want it to be, can we not simply finish the conversation there? I’ll throw playdough on to a canvas, and we can faux to display our trendy credentials of acceptance and perception. If art is to mean something, there needs to be some working definition of what it is. If art can be something to anyone at anytime, then there ends the dialogue. What makes art particular – and price discussing – is that it stands above or exterior everyday issues, similar to on a regular basis food, paintwork, or sounds.
Next is Nov 15, 2022 Mindful Looking Mindful Looking invitations you to decelerate and spend time with a single murals from the Denver Art Museum. Art, then, is perhaps “anything presented for our aesthetic contemplation” – a phrase coined by John Davies, former tutor at the School of Art Education, Birmingham, in 1971 …