23/09/2015

Contemporary art - Exercise 2 - What is art?

What is art?
Really, what is art? For me, a piece which makes me happy. It could be film, it could be a series, a painting. And I do not know if it is really art because there are pieces which were marked as art but I do not like them.

We can know it is art because we have proofs for it from society. We see it at galleries, critics are saying it is art, it was sold for a huge money, it is displayed in museum. Is that enough?

I think there are two main areas. The first: ourself recognition what is art (what we learned about it and what had influence on our judgement - culture, other opinions) and the second: the others who established critical issues around what is art.

"To put art back in the service of the mind." Marcel Duchamp: to go behind the piece of art? To let mind imagine something when it sees an object? Like a film montage?

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