>>To say an audience decides wether certain work is art or not is a very broad
>statement.
>You can always find audience that agrees with your work and you can find audience that does not. Since you can't tell which audience is the "right" one,
>you cannot tell wether certain work is art.
>
>One pragmatic definition of art mesaures art with money: if it sells for big
>money, it's almost certanly art.
>
>
> Arijan
Neither democracy nor commerce are very good at judging the value of a work of art. Look up ''aesthetics''.
James Hastings-Trew (jhasting@eagle.wbm.ca) wrote:
: Your audience, who is always the final arbiter of all of your efforts.
: Whether all of the "great" art of the world is great by virtue of some
: intrinsic value, or whether it is great because some elite "said so" is not
: the question. It is great because people value it as great -- things in and
: of themselves have no instrinsic value, but only have what value people
: give them... but that is a philosophical discussion for another day.
Exactly my point!
To say an audience decides wether certain work is art or not is a very broad
statement.
You can always find audience that agrees with your work and you can find audience that does not. Since you can't tell which audience is the "right" one,
you cannot tell wether certain work is art.
One pragmatic definition of art mesaures art with money: if it sells for big
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