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Originally posted by Yorick:
Cannot the stone be beautiful? The shape of many squares creating a rectangle? Simple, timeless. Anyone could have made it.
That is the key. Anyone can go and make a pile of bricks, and look at it with the satisfaction that we have made art.
Exactly!!!!! No skill involved!
You are a musician - can ANYONE pick up a musical instrument and make good music with it if they have no training (and are possibly tonedeaf)? They would produce NOISE, not music, right?
Same with this modern so-called-art. If there is no skill, no talent involved, how can what they produce be called art? Any more than a non-musical person could produce a sonata the first time they tinkled the keys of a piano?
A lot of your argument doesn't make any sense to me. Some does - there IS beauty in simplicity, there is drama in ugliness. These things CAN be art, and they can also NOT be art.
Let me quote a dictionary definition of art:
"Human creative skill or its application, branch of creative activity concerned with imitative and imaginative designs, e.g. painting; fine arts; thing in which skill can be exercised; certain branches of learning (esp. languages, literature, history, etc) as distinct from sciences."