What Is Art?

he's alive

And accused!

Dictionary!

Coffee.

why do i do art? because i'm an artist.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

Swordfish.

Sometimes I have no reason at all.
drawing or painting can relax me.

Orlando inspired me...

Art is a vehicle for pointless yet opinionated conversations.

That's an easy answer Mike!

Hey Blaine, been a bit how is the new job, or has it started yet? Kevin ain't it grand! Cynthia that is so Surrealist!

IDK...but I just saw something in another thread that isn't.

Cynthia,
Remind me what swordfish is.... It's from a movie. Remind my old brain

In the meantime, I'll have the mahi mahi.

Ok, visual art for me is a form of nonverbal communication. Why do I do it?.......to communicate, to have a creative outlet and nothing else much going on. Fun, challenge, when I don't hate it I love it!

It's just a question ? What ever
Ronald thanks!

Art is....

This!



You're welcome. :D

Hope your new job is going well :)

I'm finding it hard to do art right now. Keep starting and not completing but, normally it's for fun AND my work. I'm exceptionally lucky to do what I love (paint) and earn enough to pay some bills from it. However, I find I'm not enjoying commissions much any more. I'm still in the process of one right now and just cannot get into it so my art business may dry up now and I start doing it just for fun again.....if I can get the fun back.

So, to answer...

It's my work
It used to be fun
I get no release now

I do it still because it's who I am

Art is a glorified coloring book for adults. Nothing more, nothing less.

--Roz Abellera

**It's my work
It used to be fun
I get no release now

I do it still because it's who I am**

Lady Isabella, that's exactly how I feel! It's nice to meet a kindred spirit. Speaking for myself, I've been complaining and despairing a lot, but here's how I'm trying to deal with it all: it's important to be who you are, no matter what. It's a way of spitting in life's eye and saying the equivalent of: "Screw you and your unfairness and your false promises and disappointments, I'm going to have fun anyway." Taking on an attitude of defiance seems to fit my character. Feels pretty damn good too. Maybe it'll work for you. :)

I will definitely try that!

Art is the salt - without it life doesn't taste so good.
art.GrigoriosMoraitis.com

"Art: 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."

In other words creating stuff of little to no practical value :D

I do it 'cos it's fun!

Art is something you make, and your descendants can live from.

I'm landscaping my yard and working on my garden lately! Right now this is my art I see everyday out my big living room window, and it just as rewarding as any other art i've done I love it!
Thanks lady!
What is art? Why do you do it? Work, is it fun,is it a release ? Why do you do art?

To give it a shot.....and to push western culture forward a tad.

Of course pushing western culture forward even a tad might be a mistake.

Dave

At 80, doing Art is certainly better than sitting in a rocking chair, talking to myself.

hmmm

Maybe I better rethink that last sentence?

To me art is something I truly enjoy. My art is pleasing to my eye and my heart. It feels like it's something I'm meant to do (and if I go too long without creating...I feel a 'crankiness' inside).

Lady Isabella...I find when I spend too much time on commissions (rather than creating what I feel compelled to create) that I lose some of my creative will, juices, etc. When that happens, I take a break from the commissions and create what I feel I must to make me happy again.

JL Meadows advice is good too... :)

Hope the fun comes back.

Lori

Roger,

Stay thirsty my friend

Signed the second most interesting man on earth

Abbie,

Take a day off. Try not to work when you are done with everything energy wise.

Come back to the work fresh. Tomorrow is not procrastination, it is a brighter day.

Dave

Art is my work, but it is also my play. Sometimes it is no fun, then other times it is the most fun I can have. It is a way of expressing myself and communicating with others. Art can evoke emotion and it can leave us cold. Art is something that I am and something that I do. Art is something I (we?) can't let go of or live without.

In circles of seasoned artists, the question, "What is art?" is a very, very, .... very tired question. In such circles, artists ask the question, "What is the QUESTION, What is art? ? And the answer is, "A very, very, ... very tired question."

For someone fairly new to art, however, it remains a fresh question, and since you seem to be fairly new at it, I'll answer the question for YOU.

Art is just about any activity that you can think of where you can take an outside view of it and judge the appeal of it. This is the ACTION of art. The OBJECT resulting from this action is the tangible thing that we call "art". Generally, then, art is both an ACTION and an OBJECT.

Why do I do it? ANSWER: I have no choice. I am alive. It is unavoidable. Everybody does it, whether they are aware of it or not.

Work? Is it fun? A release? ANSWER: It is work that I get paid very little or nothing to do. It is usually NOT fun while I am doing it. The fun comes only afterwards, when I can see that I have done something that I can live with. As for a release, ... well, ... there is more than one way to think of what "release" means. I suppose it "releases" potential or realizes potential forms somehow stored in my bio-physiology. If you are talking about emotional release, then no ... no grand, fulfilling, indulgent, EXPRESSIVE catharsis going on with me.

Vegetable gardening has sort of become my latest art. I have broken ground and built raised beds or in-ground beds with fences and trellises this year. I finally bit the bullet and bought concrete reinforcing wire mesh to build seven-foot-tall cylindrical tomato cages, after two years of roughing it with less aesthetically pleasing set ups. I built another leaning rectangular trellis using this same mesh and some 2 x 4's to serve as my cantaloupe trellis.

Alas, I cannot sell tomatoes on a POD site.

Art is what ever you want it to be including absurd, obscene and obnoxious, woven in with the beautiful and wonderfully creative and posing as art when it is really nothing but absurd, obscene and obnoxious. But we still call it all art.

I never think or talk in turns of being an artist no matter how many photographs I take or sell. I do it because it was one of the many things that I love to do that I was able to make a buck at. So to me it is not art, it is not work, it is just fun.

When I first head the comment about "doing what you love for a living and you will never work a day in your life", it struck a cord with me. I have been very fortunate to be able to figure out how to live that.

Similar to Floyd S., I try to avoid talking in terms of "art" and being an "artist" these days. But most of culture still recognizes some meaning in the categorization, so abandoning it totally would make me an enigma without description in some cases.

I did not know life was this complicated. I have been getting by as an artist making art.

I am not reconsidering my stance. Why would I?

Dave