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27 May 2015, 9:19 pm

Fnord wrote:
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"good" meaning that someone enjoys it. [...]
Oh. Then "I don't know much about 'Art', but I know what I like" makes perfect sense! Art appreciation is all subjective, and if I don't like "Crap-On-Canvas", then it isn't Art.
Just because you don't like some specific music, it doesn't stop being music.

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I did not say that "Crap-On-Canvas" would no longer be a painting; I just said that it would no longer be art.


Yes, the way that not all novels qualify as literature.

Of course, this brings us beyond "what is the point of art?" to "What is the definition of art?"



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28 May 2015, 12:35 am

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A 'commoner' would think that buying a metal cube highly praised by those above him in the pecking order would gain him prestige/acceptance by those above him.... and a wealthy person would purchase it because the group-think gives the piece value which becomes a wise social and economic investment. Despite the fact that its just... a metal cube.

humans, by and large, are prisoners of their conceits. I like to believe there are civilizations "out there" who would regard all of this behavior as analogous to how humans would regard the goings-on beneath an upturned rock.