What is art?

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I got into a discussion with my sister about this. She was watching super girl and they changed one of the characters in the show. We got into a discussion about whether it was good to just change a character for no reason or to just cater to your audience. Why not introduce a new character if you want to change the person’s race, gender, or sexual orientation. I said what if you said that you wanted Adam in the sistine chapel to have a mustache. Would that ruin the work of art just to change it. If you are doing it to have racial diversity why not just change all the medieval art so that in all the pictures with people on them change the race or gender of a couple of individuals.

Basically what I’m asking is, is art timeless or is it changing? I came to the conclusion that if you create something that is a work of art it should be timeless and if someone else were to come around and change your art then that is vandalism. So the way I stopped arguing about it was to say that comics and in this case super girl(by the way this is about a character in super girl and not super girl herself. I don’t mind if they add a character) is not art. I don’t know the name I would classify them as but because they are so quick to change what is already written it is fluid.

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“What is art?”, that question has been debated since the dawn of time. I bet when the first caveman drew animals on the cave wall, he had critics! :smile:

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Art is the representation of the masses
Art is the heart of ur intellectual classes
It speaks it teaches and sometimes preaches
Its a featureless form that sometimss features
Various artists from various parts of the world
From the grafiti art to the abstract monsters and swirls
It harbors the boats it holds the quotes and may even influence u on ur next vote
Art isn’t hope its inspiration
A great sensation not bound by any nation
Art has ego
Art is ur expanded minds key hole

And thats art

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Art can change over time like how our mind changes as we age or how moral views and behaviour and laws change with the ages.

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There is no definite answer to that question as of this day…and debates go for centuries as @everhopeful said
Shortly said, a work of art is what is considered to be an art at the certain moment of time ( by the dominant esthetic norms of the specific “interpretive community”/ Stanley Fish’s term ).

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Pretty pictures? That’s what I think…

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An outpouring of psychic energies which are representative of the individual or universal through a medium onto a canvas.

Otherwise today it is commonly seen as junk/boring.

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Hi there, Art is a representation of our thoughts.

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It’s the name of the guy with no arms and no legs hanging on the wall.

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this… is art.

(apparently, a kindergärtner was able to spell all those words correctly…)

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