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Lut (from Belgium) said to me - “of course it is art”!
There is an artist in each of us !
The point is feel the love and respect for all the materials 'natural and artificial ,to have a spirit which allows a bright view in the techniques and to practice them. Last but not least we have to know our emotions.
So I repeat myself and say “Of course it is art because art is nothing more than to create a perfect harmony between the materials, the techniques and the personal emotions.”
------ so I said to Lut ------
Thank you for kindly responding to my question about art, I hear your voice in those words you gave me. They are good words, but they too demand that there be certain qualities for something to be considered art. Your point of view requires one to feel in a certain way about the materials and to handle them both mentally, physically and emotionally also with a certain approach. So the point is that there seem to be things that determine whether something is considered art or not. I guess the idea that says everything is art still stands and the qualification of that statement is that there is good art and there are other types.
It sounds from your point of view that good art must contain well handled materials, emotional values and some level of aesthetics (perhaps beauty or style or design and so on). The reason I let that line of text remain on this site ( ... but is it art?), still here today, is because art is recognised by the personal values of the observer. We do not have to have a degree to know what we like. So if we like something then for us it can be considered art. After all, who is the judge but you, the observer. Art is our relationship with "other". It is our interaction within existence. Good? Bad? How proud or arrogant are those who can tell me what I like better than I can know for myself? If my sense of colour were not "classical" or "harmonic" or "contrasting" then it could quite probably be because my understanding was different than that of the "establishment". I might like clashing or muddy colour. I might enjoy chaotic mess. There is no right and wrong. What one era, one society, one civilization find wholesome or desirable might be totally opposite to what another time, space and people recognise as art. Education simply forces a point of view upon one. The educators claim their power by so doing. But when one steps outside of that blinkered and often self serving set of ideas, then one returns to true freedom. Freedom offers an "open choice" not tarnished by opinions of "right" or "wrong", "good" or "bad". So I stand in that place. Anything or any "artwork" that I look at is just a reflection radiating. It exists, so do I. What matters is what I feel. I say again, what I feel, the I is the point of reality from which I interact and relate to all else.
I am means I exist.
I "do" (run, jump, sit, look, imagine, paint) is how that existence of me is interacting with the environment in which I am existing. It is not a fixed process.
There is not a right or wrong way to live.
When that is so, we are not constrained by another’s idea of right or wrong, then we are free.
When that is so, that we are free, then we establish our own set of values, which will change as we create and as we choose.
Creation means that something changes within existence.
When something changes, then things are different.
It is just down to the choice of the individual who is experiencing existence.
This process is never ending.
It is within the nature of eternity to create.
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