To me Art is something that
communicates a concept, and it can be a abstract concept, by a medium that has a certain higher level of composition to usual.
So a good political speech can be considered art, just like a poem. As a good political speech will often make use of rhythm etc. Further expression of what can come naturally; humming for example, is pretty much natural, making a work of art of music involves calculated composition of, well, humming.
Also, Art is whatever has that special... something; which I suppose is the success in composition, but hard to quantify.
If an artist makes something and then has to tell you what it represents then s/he has pretty much failed. The idea of art is to express to the person experiencing the art, not for the person making it. Modern art such as this wank is, in my opinion, doodling. I doodle on a sheet of paper, and hell, sometimes that can actually represent my thoughts at the time to someone who sees it (zigzags show chaotic thoughts, etc.), but it's pretty much still a doodle. Coating a skull in diamonds is just a very expensive doodle.
(, Thu 10 Jan 2008, 20:48, Reply)