Sure!
I say Art is a Thing To Do, not a thing unto itself.
It's the process, not the final product. Nothing you can point to is Art. It's just, at best, the leftovers from Art. Art Droppings, I like to call it.
So if you want an example related to Fractal Art, Art is what happens during the time spent setting up something to render, and what happens during any post-work. What you get in the end is a picture. The picture is not the Art. The Art is the process of making it.
Some people try to do a thing they call Performance Art, but that is just Art in my world. They just do it for an audience.
I believe anytime somebody calls any thing Art, they are misusing the word. The phrase "a work of Art" is quite common. That implies that Art is Work. Work is definitely a Verb and never confused with a noun!
Frankly, I'm surprised this is not the universal definition of Art, as it would quell thousands of debates over whether or not something is Art. I see such questions as meaningless misuses of language.
Here's a motto for us all - Ask not whether a thing is Art, ask instead if you like it!
Well, at least we agree on your last statement. To my mind, defining "art" as "the process, not the final product" is just shifting the noun (from "product" to "process"--both of which are nouns). To say that "art" is a verb means that it can be used as that part of speech--instead of, "I created that image," one could say, "I arted that image." Doesn't make sense to me.
Here is part of the Google definition of art: "creative activity resulting in the production of paintings, drawings, or sculpture." This defines art is the activity, which seems to be what you're getting at. Still, "activity" is a noun--the activity (or the process) is still a thing, albeit not necessarily a tangible thing, like a painting.
Thanks for proferring an interesting concept.
January 12, 2011, 06:26:51 AM
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