Archive for August, 2006

Art - What IS Art Anyway

It’s an old question. Many people think that abstract art isn’t art. Some people think that when I draw people it isn’t art. Everyone seems to have an opinion of what is NOT art.

Art, painting, drawing, or CREATING, is basically anything someone thinks of as art. There doesn’t have to be universal agreement. If we needed everyone to agree on what is art, NOTHING would be art.

I found the idea of Art as The Machine We created to be a most interesting creative concept. Here we find that art is sculpted into something useful. We don’t think of it as art when we do it. It’s just a machine. But with time, it becomes art. It’s a lot to think about.

For more realism, here are some award-winning paintings. One is a snowy plover and the other, a seagull - I can get a lot of color out of 3 keyed-down semi-primaries, eh?






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