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is it art?
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Saint Isaias Boner
Jan 17, 2007

hi how are you

while we can all agree that video games, tv shows and theatre aren't art because they're garbage designed to distract children it's harder to define what art actually is

Webster's Dictionary defines art as

archaic present 2d singular of be

which really raises more questions than it answers.

is this art?




is this art?




is this?



so goons what is art?

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Falun Bong Refugee
Dec 14, 2015

by FactsAreUseless
An attempt at expression that lacks utility?

Smash it Smash hit
Dec 30, 2009

prettay, prettay
if you think about it, if you put a f in there








FART.








GBS KING :fyadride:

Smash it Smash hit
Dec 30, 2009

prettay, prettay

Falun Bong Refugee posted:

An attempt at expression that lacks utility?

but enough about your posts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FedEx Mercury
Jan 7, 2004

Me bad posting? That's unpossible!
Lipstick Apathy
Art is anything that makes you feel, line videogames for example

Bert Roberge
Nov 28, 2003



This is Art close thread.

Falun Bong Refugee
Dec 14, 2015

by FactsAreUseless

Bert Roberge posted:



This is Art close thread.

Pete and Pete was way ahead of it's time and incredibly well written.

Falun Bong Refugee
Dec 14, 2015

by FactsAreUseless
Actually It was perfect for it's time. I don't know why I said that.

Smash it Smash hit
Dec 30, 2009

prettay, prettay

Falun Bong Refugee posted:

Actually It was perfect for it's time. I don't know why I said that.

i know why


Falun Bong Refugee posted:

An attempt at expression that lacks utility

Falun Bong Refugee
Dec 14, 2015

by FactsAreUseless
As long as you think my posting is art, I'm cool with it.

toxicitysquared
Nov 12, 2007

:jiggled:
Jiggled Again
:jiggled:
my posts are art

Zzulu
May 15, 2009

(▰˘v˘▰)
Art is anything that evokes emotion

or not

arts everything, as long as someone calls it art

Strep Vote
May 5, 2004

أنا أحب حليب الشوكولاتة
art serves the critical function of communication of the human condition across space and time, so that we can understand each other. it is also important, in its more instructional forms, as a record of "things that we have tried and here's what happened afterward" so that we may make clearer choices. it is the distillation of experience into a form that is subconsciously and unconsciously resonant so that the absolutely essential information is memetically encoded into our brains.

Fishy Joe
Apr 19, 2005
Eat at Fishy Joe's
a bunch of BULLSHIT

Maldoror
Oct 5, 2003

by R. Guyovich
Nap Ghost
art is the subconscious made physical

it can be good

it can be bad

it can be cheap

it can be expensive

but all art just is

we live in a black hole

Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3
Nov 15, 2003
Is it used by the rich as a vehicle for storing wealth? Then it's art.

Saint Isaias Boner
Jan 17, 2007

hi how are you

notZaar posted:

Art is anything that makes you feel, line videogames for example

sorry it says in the OP that videogames aren't art and it's pretty saucy of you to diagree with an OP in GBS

Mozi
Apr 4, 2004

Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die
Nap Ghost
the statue of david, the mona lisa, the goat man - these are art

Germstore
Oct 17, 2012

A Serious Candidate For a Serious Time
videogames are in fact the highest form of art

Smash it Smash hit
Dec 30, 2009

prettay, prettay
fART!








gbs king :fyadride:

Strep Vote
May 5, 2004

أنا أحب حليب الشوكولاتة
here, in late to end-state capitalism and globalism, the most resonant art is copied and pasted, reappropriated images and phrases that are repetitive, but, as the Torah is different each year it is read, because time has moved and its meaning has now changed, so too do memes become different each time they are posted, until they either are distilled into almost perfect forms by the shaping of the crowds, or forgotten as time continues to move and their resonance is lost.

the internet has produced art with many authors. the meme is the artistic representation of the zeitgeist.

Falun Bong Refugee
Dec 14, 2015

by FactsAreUseless

LegoPirateNinja posted:

Is it used by the rich as a vehicle for storing wealth? Then it's art.

This is a pretty solid definition, I have to say.

Mozi
Apr 4, 2004

Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die
Nap Ghost
next up here at sotheby's auction house, it's a genuine mozi post from 2016, verified as authentic by the poster himself. totally unique, it captures the zeitgeist in a truly memorable and compelling way. the bidding opens at one billion dollars

Strep Vote
May 5, 2004

أنا أحب حليب الشوكولاتة

Falun Bong Refugee posted:

This is a pretty solid definition, I have to say.

what, then, is art created by ordinary people and unsold? is that art, or is it craftsmanship?

Strep Vote
May 5, 2004

أنا أحب حليب الشوكولاتة
i huff arts

ConstantDelays
Jan 1, 2013
Anything expensive but poo poo is art

ConstantDelays
Jan 1, 2013
Excellent social commentary (see above) can also be considered art

flerp
Feb 25, 2014
yes

a few DRUNK BONERS
Mar 25, 2016

putting things into and then taking them out of ones orifices

FedEx Mercury
Jan 7, 2004

Me bad posting? That's unpossible!
Lipstick Apathy
Troll posts are art because they make u salty n mad.

Falun Bong Refugee
Dec 14, 2015

by FactsAreUseless

Quantum Finger posted:

what, then, is art created by ordinary people and unsold? is that art, or is it craftsmanship?

It's garbage.

ConstantDelays
Jan 1, 2013

Quantum Finger posted:

here, in late to end-state capitalism and globalism, the most resonant art is copied and pasted, reappropriated images and phrases that are repetitive, but, as the Torah is different each year it is read, because time has moved and its meaning has now changed, so too do memes become different each time they are posted, until they either are distilled into almost perfect forms by the shaping of the crowds, or forgotten as time continues to move and their resonance is lost.

the internet has produced art with many authors. the meme is the artistic representation of the zeitgeist.
Sorry the correct answer was 'whatever Tracey Emin is making GBS threads out currently'

Strep Vote
May 5, 2004

أنا أحب حليب الشوكولاتة

WHY























NOT

























BOTH?????????

Strep Vote
May 5, 2004

أنا أحب حليب الشوكولاتة
ahem sorry

Strep Vote
May 5, 2004

أنا أحب حليب الشوكولاتة
i just made this thread into art

your welcome

Nooner
Mar 26, 2011

AN A+ OPSTER (:
Video games OP

Smash it Smash hit
Dec 30, 2009

prettay, prettay
SUCK THE ART OUT OF MY BUTTHOLE

Bareback Werewolf
Oct 5, 2013
~*blessed by the algorithm*~
Art is what you do when you're depressed and have no friends so you draw overly sexualized little girls with big eyes and post it on deviantart. That's what art is, OP.

Meme Poker Party
Sep 1, 2006

by Azathoth
No Man's Sky

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TheMostFrench
Jul 12, 2009

Stop for me, it's the claw!



Art seriously can be anything.

You might be trying to get some kind of message across, or you might be trying to make something as intentionally meaningless as possible. You might make a sculpture for art, but the act of destroying it could also be art, so could the object you used to destroy it. A person who comes along and says 'this is not art' could themselves be considered art, e.g performance art.

The real question is why are some people more successfu-

LegoPirateNinja posted:

Is it used by the rich as a vehicle for storing wealth? Then it's art.

Yeah, this.

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