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Art? What is art? Something created to evoke a response, emotion? Response and emotion are equally dependent upon the person experiencing the creation.
If I don't have a response, am I stealing from the artist the honorific of the title?
I think we get too bent out of shape by the whole "art" thing. Headlines about Banksy and the reaction to their installations are really sociological commentary, a sort of Rorschach test.
If I write a song, using the language I have learned throughout my life and the construct of the western music paradigm in which I have been immersed am I a thief or an artist? What if the song is about something I have experienced, does that reduce the theft? If someone applauds my song, am I then an artist?
The arguments of mages are infinite. (I stole that line from Ursula K Leguin)
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Les
My train of thought has been replaced by a bumper car.
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