Brett

I’m not sure if my post was clear to you. I meant I accept the idea of the influence of the world at large upon me.

I wasn’t actually asking you to come up with one meaning. My post might have been a bit clumsy. What I was thinking of was how so many of us, when ask...

I think the creative animal of today is no different than he/she has ever been. I see a sort of Darwinian strain to creativity in the ‘creative animal...

Yes, but the question was what does it mean to ‘you’?

It’s not so much about things I don’t have to do. It’s the freedom of being left alone, of living my life unimpeded, free from interference, which can...

I don’t think one has to necessarily be at the event to experience it. Picasso’s experience of the bombing could be what was impressed on him by the n...

These days the idea of freedom seems to lean towards being able to do what you chose. Free speech means being able to say what you think, freedom of m...

I don’t think the intention was necessarily ‘War is wrong’. Does that mean all war is wrong? I think it’s more that war is a horror. The first one is ...

Ingmar Bergman writing about the theatre: “Nothing is; everything represents. The moment the curtain is raised , an agreement between stage and audien...

:up:

I feel reasonably confident in saying that art mocks philosophy.

Yes it’s true that the audience passes judgement on a piece of art. And they may judge it as entertaining in many different ways, but that’s only a re...

That could be regarded as taking martial arts to the level of art. But the idea of art, it’s definition, comes before, its dipping into art to help de...

The primary difference (I believe) between the first and second painting is that the first is primarily about the subject and the second is about the ...

How so?

Am I imagining it or are we starting to see a bit of agreement happening?

I’ll go along with that. Of course Zhoubotong will argue that ‘Transformers’ does exactly that. Or have you cunningly included ‘raw’.

Art may often be entertaining but that doesn’t mean its intent was to be entertaining. The artist is producing the work first for themselves. The inte...

I think this must be true, otherwise we’re not talking about imagination.

Is this all there is to the meaning of imagination? “the act or power of forming a mental image of something not present to the senses or never before...

It’s possible you may not be conscious of that. Film does elicit, but maybe not the films you like to watch. Edit: I take that back having thought abo...

What would you say art is for, then? (You may have already said so but I can’t find it).

For who, artist or audience?

Well then you’re talking about entertainment. That’s different from art. ‘Transformers’ is entertainment. So is Shakespeare, or was. Now it’s an idea,...

This doesn’t seem to answer Hanover’s post for me. Can you send explain a bit more?

I’m not sure. It seems to me that if you do something twice then it’s no longer random, you’re applying a set of ‘rules’, or chain of events’, to make...

Well it’s possible that that’s exactly what art is for and anything else is not art. If a painting is working within the idea of realism, where the pa...

Yes, you’re right. I woke up this morning and realised my error. Edit: what I’ve since realised is that the restriction of travel as a price to pay is...

I’m not sure this is exactly true. We’re all coming from different parts of the world here so our experiences might differ. But my experience is that ...

This was taken from your response to another post and I’m not sure if you are raising what they said to question it or because you believe it to be tr...

I may not have been clear enough in my post. I’m not saying that it isn’t acting against free speech, I was just being technical I guess. What I meant...

I do understand your feelings about the absurdity, but the replies to your posts point out that it’s not so absurd after all, and they’re very lucid i...

Well you said you liked Van Gogh, but I couldn’t make any connection after that.

It’s not that I think it, he said it.

Well then, just let things go, stop being so offended.

You want to ban the idea of offensive words existing, as being offensive.

In reply to Zhoubotong: art is the opinion of elitists if elitism is people having a preference for particular art or a particular artist, that is, ha...

What are you trying to say in relation to this thread?

I want to persevere with this point in relation to elitism and what exactly elitism is. If art is subjective, and therefor it’s true that art is an ag...

Art is an agreement between the artist and his/her audience.

If art is subjective, if it’s just a preference and nothing can be said to be better or worse, then the daubs of an ape are just as much art as the Mo...

I see these sort of comments a lot these days. In the past people have survived the most abject poverty, harsh environmental conditions, lack of food,...

I think this conversation has finally gone off the rails.

Is this genius? “Bay has responded to his critics, saying "I make movies for teenage boys. Oh, dear, what a crime." Besides being accused of making fi...

Is Mozart a genius, Picasso, Miles Davis, Shakespeare?

I like that and I like the word genius. And I’d like to believe that there is the work of genius, then there is the work of also rans. So let’s ignore...

Maybe this is the problem: art seems to be man made (unless you believe in a God), and all things man made have a foundation, a set of rules or agreem...

I’ve just had a thought about this. Was it the demands on my imagination that gave me more insight into the TTRL book or the skill of the writer that ...

So it begs the question: would ‘Transformers’ as a book or script be able to compete with another novel: ‘The Thin Red Line’ for instance? Probably no...

I have tried to raise that point myself, but I still find it hard to break through the subjective argument posts.