Is Nature Art. Is life and death Art?
Simple answer…no.
Medium answer…It can be pretty but art is typically designed
or assigned. As such…
the expression or
application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form
such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for
their beauty or emotional power.
"the
art of the Renaissance"
(Copied from the “Define Art” result on google.)
LONG ANSWER…
Art is a social construct. As such
anything can be ASSIGNED as art by anyone.
This is not to say Nature, Life or
death cannot be aesthetically pleasing, but this is not the same as “ART”. What
becomes art is completely up to the people around it who call it art.
And this is simply fine art instead
of applied arts.
Fine art is a strange field.
Obsessed with message or meaning until it is buried under so much symbolism
that it is lost, or even worse the artist stops trying to improve and nothing
original comes from it anymore. Right now it is a running joke that Banksy, the
graffiti artist is saying the same thing forever in less and less interesting
ways. The more focused fine artists don’t bury their message and can actually
get things across, however the time of the “Fine artist” is a bit gone and
past. It also feels like fine art praises “Classical” works.
Applied arts, is far more
interested in how to create impact
desired. What does each color incite? How do shapes and composition change
things? Jagged vs smooth, and so on. Tone and tempo effects everything. Within
the strange duality of Fine arts and Applied arts, applied arts…applies way
more to fine art than the other way around, especially if trying to make a
living off it is important.
Thus presentations of life, death
and nature when presented as art is art, but not automatically.
Not 100% sure I stayed on topic.
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