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Yes Brett, I've made an edit above.

I believe: anthropology explores human life. Human life's only constraint is consciousness, and art explores human consciousness and subconsciousness....

Why so defeatist Punshhh. I believe anybody can make great art. It is not necessary to have knowledge of, or be active in the art world. One can look ...

It’s just that we should probably acknowledge that the value we place on art is often fictional, like money or rare gems (that aren’t actually so rare...

The last line in previous post should read : You have a new idea in this thread, but only a few can see it, and most just ignore it. And this is very ...

How do you edit posts?

There has been a lot of discussion about aesthetics and beauty in art. Concern with these concepts are still prevalent in the visual arts. Artists are...

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The Genius of van Gogh is best appreciated by the way he raised the paint in his brush strokes. try putting one piece of paper over another, and focus...

Few people can raise a finger to the empathy van Gogh's paintings generate

That is something attributed to him. He did not want to live that life, but was forced to by his convictions. He knew he was right in a world that tho...

Brett you should love van Gogh Think of punk music apply it to the times change the class to merchant middle and you have van Gogh

Why did Van Gogh paint as he did? Because he did not agree with the aesthetics of the time. His paintings were popularly perceived as ugly Form follow...

There is also a consequence to what art you make and buy . It either maintains the status quo, or challenges it. The same applies to what you hold as ...

I would agree with you Brett.

i was watching a YouTube video of the outsider art fair last night, Its something Ive been following a number of years now, and I couldn't help thinki...

I'll second that

@"jgill" you might be interested, I cant remember her name, but a photo lab assistant accidentally exposed some large 6x4 photo paper, people were so ...

Brett and i were discussing the relevance to art and culture and we agreed that art has some influence, and no doubt that it dose. It was quite influe...

Ha Ha, Its art to him but not to us, since we will never see it

Did you see Birdman. The scene where he shoots himself for art

An art work has to gain the audiences attention, then say something to them. Very hard to do

It would work. Stelark used to suspend himself from ceilings by hooks through his skin

art is an expression of human consciousness, and art work is information about the artists consciousness and subconsciousness The above is the definit...

A precondition is that its presented as art. Think performance

In the end that's all that's required. You produce something , put it out there and it gets loved or hated. All the rest is immaterial. We know what a...

So everyone and everything is an artist. And everything we produce is art. Is that it?@"brett" Not Quite.. You have to produce something that you say ...

Define an artist.@"Brett" Somebody who calls themselves an artist. There are no qualifications necessary.

Until a few days ago there was no definition of art. Duchamp taught us that art can be anything the artist wishes it to be. He illustrated this by pre...

@"Punshhh" I found the search function thanks. I have watched bacteria move seemingly meaningfully across a petri dish. They can convey antibiotic res...

@"Punshhh" Could you please point me to other parts of the forum where consciousness is discussed? This is interesting regarding consciousness as ther...

You are conscious right now, yes? That - that - is consciousness. It's a state of you - and you're in it right now. And you knew you were conscious be...

Jackson Pollock was a very formal painter many would be surprised to hear. The underlying structure of his work is quite rigid - this allowed him the ...

Punshhh you are deciding which accidents you keep, and which you correct.

nice painting punshhh. Brett yes, but we know that we are imperfect and much of what we produce is not intended and we never produce exactly what we w...

my understanding of consciousness is that it is influenced by psychopathology and biology, so biology would account for instinct.

After having a smoke. Its hard to know how big a role instinct plays in human art. No doubt it plays a role. I think the definition is still valid, bu...

Yes instinct is interesting - the definition dose not exclude instinct as it contains subconsciousness but dose it sufficiently account for it ? - thi...

an expression of human consciousness, and art work as information about the artists consciousness, and subconsciousness The definition works for anima...

Brett --- If they want to be.

Brett There are birds that create nests and decorate them. There seems to be consciousness beyond humanity. AI will develop a consciousness.

I believe art has already been defined as: an expression of human consciousness, and art work as information about the artists consciousness, and subc...

There is more evidence every day about consciousness in animals and plants even! But I'm trying to restrict this to Human Art.

or a ripple as you say

Absolutely, Its a steady build up of something - like a snowball

Brett art is not only cultural, it is also generational .

@"Brett" Art is a part of it. Artists move the fastest. They influence music and music really delivers the message home.

@"Brett" But they will have one, and it will be different to what we currently have. It has yet to be invented.

Whats interesting to me is that culture was nevertheless changed.

i think you are in the ball park. I do not think it has to be instantaneous but a different art should emerge. An emerging culture will differentiate ...