Oct 24 2008
From the Archives: What is art to you?
As I’m gaining new visitors every day I thought I’d ask my new reader the same question I asked on my very first post and it’s quite loaded. What is art to you? Sure, you know what people call art and you know the one man treasure is another’s trash proverb, yet there’s much more to this question than what a society says is art. I really believe that often art is an emotional response to the way the world is or how an individual thinks it should be. It’s both the known an unknown variable – the intangible. But what is it to you? Post some comments and let me know. I want to get a feel for who my readers are.
Keep in mind that your definition doesn’t have to be conventional. Art might be made conceiving and giving birth to a child, skateboarding or dying your hair or cooking a meal.
Thanks for your time going back in time with me here at the Outskirts!
For me, art is walking through a forest like setting with the tress rustling and the birds singing. It’s walking along the beach with the waves crashing against the rocks. It’s hearing a song that touches me so deeply that it brings tears to my eyes. It’s watching an artist paint, a writer write and a musician play.
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I don’t think a lot about art. am a writer, illustrator and sometime poem. I guess art to me would be the need to say something through emotional channels not just literal words.