Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Purpose of Art 2

After reading the comic MAUS and discussing the purpose of art with fellow thinkers my perspective about art has changed slightly. I now believe that everything is art, and everything can be art. Not just physical things like a picture on the wall or a sculpture. Art is the perfect form of a hockey player as he takes a shot or the grace a basketball player has when he takes a jump shot. Art is a perfectly designed city with no traffic flaws or a mother singing to her kid to sleep at night. I don't believe art has any purpose or definition. For something to be art it must simply be something that captivates someone's mind or catches someone's eye. Art is inside us, everything around us is just what we make of it.

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