We both think this is art, but for different reasons. We used the example of the elephant who painted a self-portrait. Who decides what has meaning-the artist or the audience? (Yes and/or yes, according to me.) My definition of art is, basically, a thing created that has meaning.Īs you can imagine, that makes labeling things as art or not art highly subjective.
He drew the line at non-sentient beings creating art (when not guided by a human, that is), but “non-human animals are perfectly capable of creating art if they (a) are participating in the creation process, and (b) are doing actions that would imply they know they are creating art.”īottom line: anything can be art. Those who create products that other people see or use-those people are artists.” (For the record, I would never disagree with that!) When I pointed out that a word shouldn’t have the very same word in its definition, he changed it to, “The concept of art is the intent to provide a product that will be viewed by others.
“Art is the product of a sentient being whose intent is to make art,” was the definition my partner first gave me when I prompted him. He asked me what I thought of a song he’d written for it, and after I gave him my opinion, we somehow wound up in a discussion about how we define art and why it matters. It’s more like-in his words-an elongated comedy sketch. And I’m very proud of him! That is very cool! But this is not your average movie. I was planning to write a completely different blog post this week, but my partner is saying some pretty interesting things, and now I’m writing this blog post, capisce?
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