Against The Law

What is art?

Art?

What's that?

(Behind the scenes, I'd tirelessly work toward a rebellion -- which I couldn't do if I were jailed or dead.)

Jeff for the sake of this thread you get to make that decision.

Risk it all! Although, I would follow Wendy's lead.

Risk it! All through school I was repeatedly reprimanded for drawing instead of doing my work, even paddled when that was still legal. You guessed it, the next day, drawing again!!!

Makes me want to do it more

Movies, TV, YouTube, Music, Paintings, Dance, Packaging, Greeting Cards, Crafts, Fashion, Accessories, Automobiles, Furniture, Architecture, Landscaping -- all banned?

Such a realistic topic.


Dan Turner
Dan Turner's Seven Keys to Selling Art Online

Let's see - three hots and a cot - or - it's supposed to better in the next place - I'm ready to go - you?

There would be many other things of greater concern if things were to get to that point. Art would be down the list...

Ahh Dan, where is your sense of fun? In Nazi Germany this was the case with the prisoners. The work was smuggle from person to person at the risk of death. The artist Soutine was beaten nearly to death for making images. Not all that novel or unrealistic.

"Ahh Dan, where is your sense of fun?"

Yep. Nazi Germany was such fun. Let's recall those wonderful, wacky 40s with the beatings and the death and the showers...


Dan Turner
Dan Turner's Seven Keys to Selling Art Online

Shhhhhh

JUST FOR ONCE, let's pretend this is a fun thread just for the fun of it...... okay?

Art is now against the law. Anyone caught making art or possessing art will be jailed or put to death, do you comply or risk it?

Risk it.
Hell, Martyr goes well with Marlene.

Agreed, FYI Dan that was sarcasm when I said "Where is your sense of fun?. This is a fun thread but from time to time for various reasons people have tried to control the production or viewing of art. In answer to my own question I don't know. I would like to take the romantic version of life and willingly die for my art but deep down inside I am a chicken so I don't know what I would do.

I would simply step onto my Parallel Universe Deck (PUD) and skip over to the art universe. I know, PUDs are probably illegal, too. I don't care.


Dan Turner
Dan Turner's Seven Keys to Selling Art Online

Good idea!

I would risk it and when my painting supplies run out Ill find a cave and paint on it with ashes.

Would this apply to us "fine art photographers" or are they just coming for the painters?

I have a medical reasons for producing art so I am exempt. ;)

kind of reminds me of a Ray Bradbury novel. :)

I would imagine it would be easier to catch a digital artist. Wait! those sneaky flash drives. Would be easier to hide on of those than an 16x20 canvas.

ain't no art in my portfolio

Bob, any kind of art you wish.

Go to the beach and draw on the sand at low tide. When the tide comes in, there's no evidence you were making art. That is, of course, unless there's someone else on the beach or somebody with a telescope. Good heavens, it's 1984 all over again.....

Only so many seats in the life boat.You keep pulling them all in until everyone is lost. That is not compassion, that is stupidity. Sad fact, but the reality of like usually is. Sooner or later, in fact much sooner then people realize, you are going to run out of other people's money. That is when the life boat sinks to the bottom. When that happens no one will be crating art.

I will just in a different country.

Floyd, defining the problem is a talent you have. Any solutions other than starving children?

ART only please or take it to another forum

"Floyd, defining the problem is a talent you have. Any solutions other than starving children?"

If are referring to one of the oldest and dumbest idea society has ever came up, the one that says that unless you can solve the problem, you have no business admitting it exists.

That logic says that the people that identified and sounded the alarm on ebola, should have kept their mouths shut because they did not have a cure for it.

All of the solutions to every problem ever solved, stated with first recognizing a problem exists, rather you have the solution or not.

Go look at the basis of the Scientific Method. Everything solution states with first identifying the problem. Common sense would tell you that it can not happen any other way.

Floyd I get the feeling like we disagree and have similar feelings concerning each others opinions. The question of this thread is if art were against the law with severe consequences would you still make art? As I stated earlier I would be happy to continue this conversation via e-mail but not on this thread.

I am thinking i fight and be a martyr for the art:::::>

If you are one of the artist who feels they would fight and possibly even die for their art, what kind of artist are you?

I'd be locating the nearest "speakeasy" ;)

painter.
i wouldn't risk anything for my iPhone.....

Photographer. I would risk photodocumenting illegal art movements.

Diana...BINGO!

Thanks Marlene! ;)

How ironic that on my lunch break today I turned around from where I was about to shoot a train passing under a bridge to find an LEO in a black SUV with his blue lights on right there.

That is ironic!

They would need to draw me a picture of what they were talking about.

The underlying premise is that a common EXACT definition of ... art ... can be agreed upon by a government or judicial system. Such an exact definition CANNOT exist. Consequently, a law that punishes a crime for engaging in what CANNOT be clearly defined is IMPOSSIBLE to litigate.

Dictators, of course, CAN enforce THEIR pet definition, and impose THEIR pet punishments. But let's see anybody in the modern democratic/republican world try to prosecute for creating the nebulosity that is ... art.

.ANYTHING is art, so the whole world should be put to death. But we all die eventually anyhow, so we are all already condemned to our just fate. Might as well enjoy the ride while it lasts.

Robert, how true and such happy thoughts! For the sake of this thread, art is however you define it. We could, as you know spend many happy hours bashing in each others brains (verbally of course) trying to come up with a working definition of what art is.

Art is NOT a "what", but an act. NOT an object, but a process. In practice, NOT a noun, but a verb, ... an attitude, a way of thinking, a manner of isolating an object or an event from its surroundings for the sake of contemplating it as somehow special.

To condemn someone for engaging in the activities of ... art ..., then, would be akin to condeming someone for the manner in which he/she thought or expressed a particular posture or disposition to the world.

I am very guilty, of course. (^__^) ... awaiting the badges at my door any second now.

Off with your head!

That's why all artists have HEAD shots, right, because eventually this is the part that gets offed. (^__^)

Must be true!

Could happen, it is now against the law in more than one state to feed the homeless hungry.

Hi group. Frankly the question seems at first sight a little childish but you just have to take a flight to Afghanistan they you get the truth. Artists there, risk their lifes.

My stock answer has always been, I'd move to Canada.

But that is an empty threat, I hate the cold.

Dave

What are the conditions in the jails? Have they been recently remodeled? Do they have free wi-fi?

I'd keep on keeping on.