Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Judging/Defining art
This is just a quick thought, but the quote that opened the video and our class discussion today stating that Graffitti is not art, but paint applied to a surface (I know that's not word-for-word) reminded me of what Truman Capote said when he read On the Road by Jack Kerouac. Of the novel, which most consider a literary classic and a huge cultural influence, Capote said, "That's not writing, that's typing." I think that both of these statements just show how objective art is, and no matter what, no one person can define art or judge it for anyone other than themselves.
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You and David are here ahead of me with great comments on this week's material and thinking. Let's make these posts the starting point for Week 5.
ReplyDeleteI do not pay much attention to the art scene, but I think you comment is very interesting. I have always thought of graffiti as a destructive form of expressing oneself, but in even that I would have to admit it was art. This is very thought provoking.
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