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anything created with artistic intentions

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This.

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So if I take a crap on a bible is it still art or something else?

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I'd call that art.

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A lot of "fine arts" don't qualify except maybe for #3. There's a reason I hate most fine arts professors I've met, because most of them are spectacular idiots, or worse- arrogant with it. Impressionism is a great example. That people actually see impressionism as a whole as a valid form of art past #3 above I've always found to be hilariously pathetic.

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1. Something that communicates a specific idea or notion in a strong manner (note, could be linked to a specific time period)  
2. Something that is well-done.  
3. (self-only/subjective) Something with strong sentimental value to you personally.  

A lot of "fine arts" don't qualify except maybe for #3. There's a reason I hate most fine arts professors I've met, because most of them are spectacular idiots, or worse- arrogant with it. Impressionism is a great example. That people actually see impressionism as a whole as a valid form of art past #3 above I've always found to be hilariously pathetic.

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Where's the objective measure for impressionism not being well-done, and what makes you say that no impressionist painting as ever attempted to communicate an idea or purpose?

edit:I realised just now that I got impressionism mixed up with something else.  My question about #2 still stands, but I'll let you have #1, ha-ha.

Post edited at 1:57 am on July 6, 2009 by The Nowhere Man

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However there is also a distinction between "art" and "technics" where technics is based primarily on the utilitarian application of mechanical principles thus taking the "human" element out of the artifact. Art is to a greater degree an expression of the human soul than technics, technics tries to distill out the human and leave behind bald application of natural law, and although less sophisticated that nature can be in some sense considered - were it perfect (which it never is) the inevitable form that it would take given physical reality.

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